Re:The birth and death of a bike company: What happened to S...
by camjohnson26 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @05:01PM
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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 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.
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Re:The birth and death of a bike company: What happened to S...
by nradov on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @05:07PM
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They 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).
Re:The birth and death of a bike company: What happened to S...
by Scoundreller on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @05:25PM
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What, you don’t like pedalling a tank on 2 non-pneumatic wheels when you have to get somewhere?
Re:The birth and death of a bike company: What happened to S...
by Someone on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @07:10PM
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The 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.
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.