Copenhagen, always first with the bike innovations, lets you borrow bikes from the bicycle library:

In Copenhagen, you can check bikes out from the bicycle library | Grist

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Copenhagen, always first with the bike innovations, lets you borrow bikes from the bicycle library:

We love a good bike share, but you have to admit that the bikes all look the same. Meanwhile, people’s bicycle preferences and needs are as varied as … well, as their taste in books. Which is why Copenhagen, always first with the bike innovations, lets you borrow bikes from the bicycle library . Unlike the book library, you do have to put down a deposit on bikes, the equivalent of $80. But that deposit is returned when you bring the bike back safely by the due date (you can borrow them for three to four days). Which means that you can try out all sorts of bicycles — tandems, cargo bikes, folding bikes, recumbents, Velomobiles — to figure out which one works for you. The bicycle library isn’t intended as a replacement for a bike share or bike ownership. You can’t keep checking the same bike out week after week. But you can shop around for the bike that best fits your lifest...

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@GazelleYeppUSA » 09 Aug '12, 7pm
In Copenhagen, you can check bikes out from the bicycle library! Would you use a bicycle library? Article via @grist. [link]
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@Kamehorre » 28 Jul '12, 3pm
RT @Nadya_HutaGalng: In Copenhagen, you can check bikes out from the bicycle library -add bike lanes in SG & IND too! [link] via @grist
@Cinnamon_Grrl » 28 Jul '12, 3pm
@birdiebent we should have this in NS. [link]
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@differentbikes » 24 Jul '12, 10pm
A bike library? This is bike sharing taken to a whole new level. #ridemore #vancouver [link]
@foodtree » 24 Jul '12, 10pm
Can't wait until Vancouver gets a bike share system, as well as something like this: [link] #bike #copenhagen #vancouver
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@podcastmama » 23 Jul '12, 5pm
Des Moines, we need one of these: a bicycle library, to try out different kinds b4 you splurge. [link] via @grist
@Simon_Board » 23 Jul '12, 5pm
[link] Signing bikes out from the bike library in Copenhagen. I remember when the Jane/Dundas library would do this for toys.
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Perfect for Portland since we have one of the highest circulation rates in the country and we love bikes! [link]
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