When the Jaunt rental bikes showed up downtown I liked they were just randomly parked in places. They have a GPS tracker on them and an alarm system so they don’t have to be locked up anywhere. In other words, they don’t need to be parked by a bike rack. Not sure who suggested to Jaunt, because I am sure it was NOT their idea, that they now park the bikes by bike racks. First off, the obvious, this makes the bikes appear to be privately owned and locked to a rack and NOT available for rent, secondly, those bike racks are for people locking up their personal bikes, and since bike racks are in very short supply in this town, I am getting tired of moving beeping bikes to lock up my bike. MOVE THEM AWAY FROM THE RACKS AND DON’T LET SOME IDIOT BUREAUCRAT TELL YOU HOW TO RUN YOUR BUSINESS.
I had some friends tell me recently they wanted to try out an E-Bike before buying one, so they rented the Jaunts today and rode them the entire trail and said they worked great and they are going to go buy some e-bikes of their own.