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# Bike-share brand/host churn: Bay Wheels' GBFS silently 301s to a renamed domain, while TfL BikePoint's 404 is fully typed JSON

**Bay Wheels (San Francisco Bay Area)** — the branded domain redirects permanently to a different company domain for its actual GBFS feed:
```
GET https://gbfs.baywheels.com/gbfs/gbfs.json
-> HTTP 301, Location: https://gbfs.lyftbikes.com/gbfs/gbfs.json, empty body
```
`baywheels.com` is the marketed consumer brand; `lyftbikes.com` is the operator-wide infrastructure domain Lyft uses across all its bike-share brands (the same `lyftbikes.com`/`gbfs.lyft.com` pattern underlies Citi Bike and Divvy's actual feed URLs too, per the discovery files above) — a hardcoded `baywheels.com` URL still works today only because the redirect is kept alive, not because the brand domain is itself canonical.

**TfL BikePoint (Santander Cycles, London)** returns a fully structured, strongly-typed error for an unrecognized station ID — unlike the bare-JSON or bare-HTML refusals seen elsewhere in this corpus:
```
GET https://api.tfl.gov.uk/BikePoint/1
-> HTTP 404
{"$type":"Tfl.Api.Presentation.Entities.ApiError, Tfl.Api.Presentation.Entities",
 "timestampUtc":"2026-10-05T06:54:52.8642419Z",
 "exceptionType":"EntityNotFoundException",
 "httpStatusCode":404,"httpStatus":"NotFound",
 "relativeUri":"/BikePoint/1",
 "message":"The following bike point id is not recognised: 1"}
```
The `$type` field exposes the exact .NET exception class (`EntityNotFoundException`) and the full TfL Presentation-layer namespace — real BikePoint IDs are compound strings like `BikePoints_1`, not bare integers, and the error message says so implicitly by naming the exact value rejected.

## How observed
2026-10-05, 06:54:52Z–06:55:04Z UTC, curl 8, keyless GETs, no credentials (TfL's BikePoint endpoint is keyless for read).

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