They have bike share stations here, and station less bikes littered about as well.
Seems like a tough town for either business model, as they presume the existence of a large population that doesn’t already have bikes.
If all ski boots came with flat bottoms, this product wouldn’t be necessary:
Whatever rules I follow, they’re bike rules. 
Computer-controlled shoes? What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jamie-hyneman-s-virtual-reality-electric-shoes-vr
One of my local bike shops has been pushing (well, metaphorically, I mean), the Giant Full-E+ 1, which looks like this:
It’s an XT-level mountain bike with dual suspension and disc breaks, and I have no trouble with that. 2.6″ tires, which are pretty much the norm nowadays, and a Yamaha motor that puts out 500 watts. Surely, nothing can go wrong there.
Yes, I know, there are times when having extra power can get you out of a jam, and to get the fun of riding downhill you typically first have to ride uphill, which can be a drag. But among the complaints I hear from people on mountain bikes, “doesn’t go fast enough” has never been mentioned, not even once. And given the propensity of mountain bike riders to endo even under their own power, I’d hate to be the insurance company that stands behind Giant or its dealers.
Wheeled Thing’s work group has access to a car. Unfortunately the office is located in the Financial District (Think Wall Street) and the parking spot for the car is in Manhattan Valley (Think Columbia University). The distance is a little less than 10 miles.
Last week Wheeled Thing volunteered to drive this car uptown, with the full knowledge that he could use Ciitbike to return to the office. It was a beautiful Autumn day… what could go wrong?
10 Miles… No Problem!
It is amazing the difference the choice of a transport mode makes.
The way northbound was stressful, difficult and annoying. There was a crash along Route 9A, so the west side was a sea of red. Cars jockeyed for position in the stop and go crush. Wheeled Thing shifted to 10th Avenue to avoid some traffic, which may have shaved a few minutes off the drive, but also shaved a few minutes off his life. At one point a dump truck claimed his lane… basically the truck was getting in front, and If he did not call “chicken” there would be some dented metal. It made you really hate New York City.
The good news is he made it!
Then he hopped on a bicycle for the southbound trip, and everything was different. Stress free pedaling. No traffic and light salt breeze in his face, heart pumping for joy, instead of stress.
It took about the 45 min in each direction – but the first half Wheeled Thing hated the road, while the 2nd he loved it. It really is a tale of two cities.
Wheeled Thing has already covered the the four capitals of the Nordic Region (sorry Reykjavik) and have a bonus:
Part five – Gothenburg. Sweden. Due to my short stay, this is a mini-review.
The bike share system is Styr & Ställ which according to Google translates to Control & Set.
On the good side
Old & Tired
On the bad side
Party Like it’s 1999
If this were a Nordic Capital the quality would be just above Sweden. So… I guess you can say when it comes to bike share, Sweden has some catching up to do.
Part four of the Wheeled Thing review of Nordic bike share systems is Bycyklen and if you have read the other three parts, you will not be surprised to learn that it translates to City Bikes. No, you will not be confused by the name of the system as you travel from country to country.
Unfortunately, Bycklen kinda sucks, and I did not give it a try. Let’s do the bad side first this time!
On the bad side
The pricing did not make any sense. The website has two options for tourists:
1: Pay as You Go – The price for Pay as You Go is DKK 30 ($4.75 USD) per commenced hour. Each account can have 2 simultaneous users on each user account. They both pay DKK 30 per commenced hour.
2: Packages: Pre-paid package of 600 minutes DKK 300 ($50 USD) that allows 5 simultaneous users on each user account. All users that are logged into your account will be using your pre-paid minutes.
As I could not figure out what a “Commenced Hour” was, I reached out to Byyken. They wrote:
“The ‘pay as you go’ means that you are charged 30 DKK every initiated hour. That means that if you take two bikes at the same time and ride on them for 20 minutes then you will be charged 2×30 DKK = 60 DKK. It is possible to rent maximum two bikes at the same time on one pay as you go-account, hence the charge.
It is not possible to accumulate minutes, which means that it will calculate after each bike on each trip.”
This means that two bikes taken out for 20 minutes costs $10! And I though Stockholm was expensive. Buying a package was an option, but also confusing.
The other problem is the bikes were motorized and has a tablet mounted, they look like this:
Copenhagen Motorized Tablets
No thank You… instead we did a traditional bike rental at Copenhagen Bicycles
Motor Free Cycling!
48 hour rental for DKK 180 ($28 USD) – it was kinda nice not to have a time limit or look for a dock. The bike worked!
The next reason Byyken is lousy is people ride the bikes too fast… why???? because it has a motor. Bike share should be slow, as many people are novices riding in the city, and slow is good, especially on vacation.
Copenhagen City Bikes is the worst bike share of the Nordic Capitals.