Growing up, I lived in a rural area. I was decently car-brained because of it too, but rode bike just about every day until I got my license. 2 years ago I moved to a walkable neighborhood in my city, and started to embrace the idea of walking instead of driving when I didn’t need to. Recently I gave in to my curiosity and downloaded an app for rental bikes/scooters. I forgot how much fun riding bike actually is! My city is also expanding it’s bike lanes all over the place. If it isn’t for work, I’m not driving!
I live in Minneapolis. The cold doesn’t bother me, so this will apply during winter as well
Do they keep the rental bikes out in the winter?
In Milwaukee, they keep the bike share outside during the winter… just the scooters go away for a few months.
I’ve never looked very closely but I’ve at least seen scooters around during the winter, so here’s hoping. I downloaded lime, and their rentals are kinda just littered everywhere. I just assumed that they only replace the battery when they die
I live in Minneapolis too, and I’ve seen the scooters migrating in truck beds for the winter already, and I know in previous years the bikes have also gone away once the snow starts. Sorry.
Well that’s too bad. Spin is pretty new, do you know if they pull their bikes?
I just did some searching and apparently Lime and Spin are trying year round rentals this year according to MPR.
Every time I’ve rented a Lime bike I’ve missed my personal ebike though because it feels like I’m capped at like 12 mph on them, I’ve been frequently commuting to St Paul, I wonder if Spin operates there?
Nice! Hopefully they do. I know in Montreal they put winter tires on at least a portion of the fleet.