Originally Posted by
noglider
You mean you started on Divvy and ended up riding your own bike? I'm impressed.
I see a lot of people on Citibike who look decidedly NOT like bike people. And this, I feel, is a wonderful thing. How much is membership? Here it's something like $150 per year, which is absurdly low. In fact, I feel sorry for the bike shops, because this artificial rate has hurt them.
I still use both my own bike and Divvy on an almost daily basis. Using Divvy to get from the train station to the office made me realize how much I missed getting around and experiencing my environment on a bike. This year I mostly ride my bike from home to the commuter train (6 miles each way), and Divvy from the train station.
I only see a few people who look like "bike people" on Divvy. Mostly I see people doing short hop commutes or errands. Here it is $75 per year, but in the two years Divvy has been around, there has been a huge uptick in bike traffic in general. I think Divvy is picking up a lot of people who who would not have been on a bike otherwise.