Experiences shared by University of Cincinnati and others¶
- Have education as a component so people take better care of bikes
- Check-in/Check-out done through rec-center, can use web-interface
- Waiver & be sure bike is in reasonably good order
- Need to be a member of the co-op in order to be eligible to borrow?
- Can be a good incentive for people to become members at Free Ride
- Can buy a bike and get 1/2 back for what they pay
- Somebody can buy a fixed-up bike and then return the bike to get 1/2 of their money back when they are done with the bike. This would be like a library bike system except that it is OK if they end up keeping the bike permanently
- Also makes the price of borrowing depend on the bike and can scale to let people borrow the nicer bikes so they are not limited to only the bad ones
- Keep designation simple, one group make all the bikes the same color. The library became known as the “yellow bike program”
- Some groups used an open-source software to keep track. I think it was called something like bike-a-ma-jiggy developed by Andrew Hall and Bernetts? (Not sure on spelling, etc.)
- www.ibike.org/encouragement/freebike/de...
