Originally Posted by
ShortLegCyclist
Fortunately my city now has a bike share program, so in addition to supporting that concept, I don't have to worry about my own bikes when I need to get somewhere by bike and stay there out of sight of that bike for a while, like at a Mariners or Seahawks game, as long as the bikeshare program has a station near enough to where I am going.
This reminds me to start a membership with our area's own bike share program (Capital Bikeshare or "CaBi" as the locals call it). We have the Smithsonian Folklife Festival coming up - the Rackspotter online app shows a reasonable selection of bike racks on the National Mall, but it'd probably be a better idea to use the bike share to get there instead of taking my own bike and leaving it locked somewhere on the Mall all day. It's not a $3000 carbon frame road racer or anything like that, but it is the only bike I've got.
I've heard stories of CaBi stations running out of bikes, so there is a bit of risk there but we'll see.