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The main problem with bike shares is the ridiculously short time limit. If you could check one out for a few hours they’d be more useful, instead most are time
by camjohnson26 7y ago
The main problem with bike shares is the ridiculously short time limit. If you could check one out for a few hours they’d be more useful, instead most are time limited to about 30 minutes. My sister used one once to bike by a lake front and she said she was stressed the whole time about not making it to the next station to reset the time limit before it expired.
- nradov 7y agoThey only charge an extra dollar or two to keep the bike longer. For most people it's not worth getting stressed about. I've used bikes shares in a several cities for 3+ hours and it was never a problem (although riding one of those crappy bikes for a few hours is kind of torture).
- Scoundreller 7y agoWhat, you don’t like pedalling a tank on 2 non-pneumatic wheels when you have to get somewhere?
- Someone 7y agoThe main Dutch bike share system doesn’t have silly time limits. It has a fixed price of €3,85 (about $4,35) for a day. That allows you, for example, to cycle from a train station to a business meeting, park the bike there for a few hours, and cycle back to the station in the afternoon. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OV-fiets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OV-fiets. It also features halfway decent (for the task at hand) bicycles. Both are good for consumers, but I don’t think such a system makes venture capitalists happy.
- 121789 7y agowas that in Chicago? I felt the same stress