Working for the Weekend | The Online Service That Lets You Rent Bikes ‘Round the World

 

There’s no better way to see a urban center— or the countryside — than on a bicycle. It’s the reason bike leaseservices exist in so many overlargecities. There’s just one problem: closerental bikes suck. Well, there betwo problems, actually: It’s also pretty hard to find a bike rental place outside of a wallopingcity. Which explains why Spinlister, a service that lets people rent come intheir personal bikes to (hopefully) friendly strangers, is so exciting for weekend getaways.

Essentially, it’s bidan AirBnB for bikes. You enter the city or zip code where you indispensablenessa rental, and it kicks back a big old angleof two-wheeled wonders. Well, a big old list in some places, at least.

There were all sorts of rides in San Francisco and Portland, a handful in Austin and Cincinnati, and one lonely bikein Birmingham, Alabama.

But, for a new service, the offerings are surprisingly robust. (We weren’t trulyexpecting to see any in Birmingham, to be honest.) And while these aren’t demo-quality bikes, they do tend to be much nicer than the rustbuckets you’ll pick up from most bike rental shops. And some are just aloneawesome. Ride on!

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Materials taken from WIRED