Absolutely love them. I wish there were more available near my house (in Tempe, Arizona. Essentially on Arizona State University's campus). >I'd much rather

Absolutely love them. I wish there were more available near my house (in Tempe, Arizona. Essentially on Arizona State University's campus). >I'd much rather have the consistency of walking to a known location near my house and grabbing a bike that I know will be there. At least in Tempe, there are competing/complimentary services. One of them is exactly like this (Grid Bikes, is the name). >I also don't know that, as someone who has to use the sidewalks when not riding, I'd want to have these things just scattered all over the place. I haven't seen this be a problem yet. Although I have to be honest, if I saw a bike in the sidewalk, I would probably just move it to somewhere more convenient so that nobody else had to deal with it. Sidewalks are community spaecs, and I'd hope that most people would treat them that way. >Last, having the bikes scattered at random has got to really do a number on the logistics costs. Going to a relatively constrained list of known locations to retrieve bikes that are due for maintenance sounds a lot cheaper to me than having to drive all over the city, possibly including going to places where the van can't go like random spots in the middle of public parks. Apparently some of the Chinese hubless bike companies have a solution for this: they offer you a bounty (of ride credit) to go and fetch them broken, or out of the way bikes. Pretty cool! I haven't seen that on any of the US services yet.