> In Paris, if you leave the bike in Montmartre (high hill) they give more time in your hide. This incentive seems to have little to no effect. Bike stations o

> In Paris, if you leave the bike in Montmartre (high hill) they give more time in your hide. This incentive seems to have little to no effect. Bike stations on top of the Paris hills (Montmartre, Belleville, Pantheon, ..) are almost always completely empty. It's not a huge issue in Paris as the city is mostly flat and you can walk down the hills within 5 minutes usually, finding a bike. The same system would fail miserably in a in a predominantly hilly city such as SF.