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Specifically though, are you talking about like literally local mom-and-pop bike rental shops for tourists? Or are you talking about the shared bike service wit
by godot 9y ago
Specifically though, are you talking about like literally local mom-and-pop bike rental shops for tourists? Or are you talking about the shared bike service with stations at every other street corner, popular in many cities nowadays?
If it's the latter, I can understand why you thought they were VC-backed startups.
- lifeisstillgood 9y agoThe latter - these are clearly not mom & pop setups. I'm impressed if they are actually profitable day to day.
- waah_waah23 9y ago> The latter You mean the ones that have "CITI BIKE" plastered all across each bike and every station? hmm, I wonder what company could be behind that? Citi? naahh, probably a VC... wat?
- lifeisstillgood 9y agoI will answer this even though the spirit of your post was not looking for an answer No these are no the citi sponsored rent a bikes. They are (seemingly) tourist focused rentals, with a large street presence and in one case I tracked down renting or owning large retail units one street down from central park (hence my "cannot work oit the economics" - I mean renting a retail space a stones throw from Central Park as a bike storage place, seems a stretch for any profit)