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Not mentioned in the summary but super relevant to understand what they are talking about: > After nine months, the City had spent $4.7 million to provide vouc

Not mentioned in the summary but super relevant to understand what they are talking about: > After nine months, the City had spent $4.7 million to provide vouchers to 4,734 Denver residents [for ebikes and equipment to ride in the winter] I'm a bit skeptical of some of this data: > 65% of Ride Report's Ride App users were riding at least once daily, and 90% were riding weekly. In the report, it mentions the Ride App was iPhone only and "Our sample size consisted of 70 riders across 12 of the 19 participating local bike shops". Is that 70 iPhone users out of the 4,734 voucher recipients? It seems like it would wildly skew any survey data to expect them to be representative. Sadly they do not report any other survey data, like how many of the recipients even completed the online survey. I suspect there's some huge self selection going on. It's hard to take these numbers at face value.

dylan604 4y ago
4.7m / 4734 residents is just under $1k per resident. I'd love to have $1k back for the purchase of my e-bike. I hesitated a bit on my decision to purchase an e-bike, but that would have made it an instant buy now decision. I'm okay with the initial price I paid for mine, and then the additional add-ons I bought once I realized how much I could do with the thing. It's always my luck to miss out on the free money from the gov't just like the covid payouts.
JPKab 4y ago
You're correct to be skeptical. Denver city government has a tremendous amount of waste and city officials and non-profit partners desperately trying to get more funding by presenting programs as rosy as possible. Colorado politics has a long, long history of corruption, but Denver is especially egregious.
webdood90 4y ago
In Denver and I question this data as well. It sounds like a nice program but I imagine it subsidized a lot of bikes that are sitting in storage for the majority of their lives. There should have been more aggressive terms - completely free bikes if you don't have a car or get rid of one. There is no incentive to actually use them with the current strategy.
akira2501 4y ago
No need to be. You missed the line from the white paper: ● The Denver Ride App pilot launched on June 1st and ran for 3 months ● Our sample size consisted of 70 riders across 12 of the 19 participating local bike shops ● Collectively, these riders logged over 3,500 ebike rides and over 15,000 miles during the pilot period The rest of their data is extrapolated from this "sample." Which is probably, given all the other hitches and processes involved in a potential rider even getting to this point is really a "self-selection funnel." Oh.. and the app was iOS only.

dylan604 4y ago

4.7m / 4734 residents is just under $1k per resident. I'd love to have $1k back for the purchase of my e-bike. I hesitated a bit on my decision to purchase an e-bike, but that would have made it an instant buy now decision. I'm okay with the initial price I paid for mine, and then the additional add-ons I bought once I realized how much I could do with the thing. It's always my luck to miss out on the free money from the gov't just like the covid payouts.

JPKab 4y ago

You're correct to be skeptical. Denver city government has a tremendous amount of waste and city officials and non-profit partners desperately trying to get more funding by presenting programs as rosy as possible. Colorado politics has a long, long history of corruption, but Denver is especially egregious.

webdood90 4y ago

In Denver and I question this data as well. It sounds like a nice program but I imagine it subsidized a lot of bikes that are sitting in storage for the majority of their lives. There should have been more aggressive terms - completely free bikes if you don't have a car or get rid of one. There is no incentive to actually use them with the current strategy.

akira2501 4y ago

No need to be. You missed the line from the white paper: ● The Denver Ride App pilot launched on June 1st and ran for 3 months ● Our sample size consisted of 70 riders across 12 of the 19 participating local bike shops ● Collectively, these riders logged over 3,500 ebike rides and over 15,000 miles during the pilot period The rest of their data is extrapolated from this "sample." Which is probably, given all the other hitches and processes involved in a potential rider even getting to this point is really a "self-selection funnel." Oh.. and the app was iOS only.