Originally Posted by cyccommute

The bike was likely an early ride share bike. At the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, I helped hand out hundreds of these. It was the second most popular thing to do at the convention. Ours didn’t have the panel but they were the same bikes. The program was called Freewheelin and was sponsored by Humana and Bikes Belong. They had 1000 bikes for ride share and that wasn’t nearly enough. Some of the bikes were left along with a special rack. Those bikes kickstarted the bike share movement.