Love ’em or hate ’em, the electric Lime Scooters that turned up briefly a few weeks ago in San Pedro to join the Lime Bikes are coming back as a permanent fixture.

The three-day “pop-up” trial run of 150 scooters over the first weekend in June was deemed a successful run with 1,400 rides logged.

Later this month — a date has yet to be announced — the scooters will return for good to join the Lime Bikes that already have become a local bike share fixture. They are produced by LimeBike, a tech start-up that provides rental bikes that are accessible by using a smart phone app linked to a credit card. San Pedro currently is the only Los Angeles city community that will have the scooters, according to the office of Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino.

While they were not as successful as they were in Santa Monica, Buscaino spokesman Branimir Kvartuc said the scooters were “relatively successful” during San Pedro’s trial run.

Not everyone appreciates the dockless bike-share trend. While the bikes and scooters are equipped with GPS to make them theft resistant, they sometimes end up cluttering neighborhoods and used in pranks, all of which has prompted a backlash.

Lime’s bike-share service won fans among college students at Cal State Northridge, who hope on the bikes to traverse across the sprawling campus. But some residents and business owners near the university complained to the Los Angeles City Council about having to navigate around the bikes left on residential sidewalks, around businesses and occasionally on private property.

After listening to weeks of complaints from citizens, the Santa Monica City Council voted this week to try a 16-month pilot program that will limit the number of dockless scooters and bicycles, as well as capping the number of companies that can operate such services in the city.

In San Pedro, pranksters wedged a lime bike underneath the standing fisherman figure that is part of a memorial statue on Harbor Boulevard.

Other bikes have reportedly been spotted on school rooftops and in the water at Cabrillo Beach. Some bikes are stripped of parts such as seats.

But the bikes have their fans as well who cite their affordability and convenience for short hops around town. They are self-locking and can be left anywhere but are not supposed to block sidewalks, streets or other areas where pedestrians are.

The scooters are unique in that they require overnight charging by Uber-like contractors known as “juicers” at LimeBike. They are paid $5 per scooter.

The scooters also require users to be 18 or older and helmets. They reach speeds of between 15 and 20 mph and cannot be ride on sidewalks. They use the same smartphone app as the Lime Bikes.

The Lime Bikes came to the Harbor Area in November, just months after the Port of Los Angeles unveiled a bike-rental docking system on the waterfront.

The dockless bikes and scooters, though, need no costly infrastructure making them appealing to cities and counties that foot the bill for the pricey docking stations.