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⌈ Secret Post #2736 ⌋

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Renting out YOUR personal bike

[(Anonymous)]

So I was taking a survey online just now, and it was basically about whether you would rent out your personal bike to people, using an online service, and to say the very least it struck me as an odd concept. Basically you take a picture of your bike, put it up on this app thing, set rates for hourly, daily, and weekly, and if someone is interested, they contact you about using it, transactions are made, and off they go. Apparently this company insures your bike and credit checks these people, but I'm not sure what that I would do this, but I want to know what F!S thinks.

TL;DR: Would you rent out your bicycle for people to use (theoretically on vacation where you live)

P.S. If anyone is interested, this company is called Spinlister

Re: Renting out YOUR personal bike

[(Anonymous)]

Renting out a bike seems really weird to be, especially since they're not super duper expensive in the first place. It'd be like renting out like a gaming system or something. Maybe if you'd use it like once or twice?

Re: Renting out YOUR personal bike

[teaphile]

No, but only because I'd have to meet with strangers to actually give it to them and get it back.

If the company's insuring it thoroughly, then sure. It's not like I use it much anyway.

Re: Renting out YOUR personal bike

[mechanosapience]

No, because one the first lessons I remember learning as a child was to never share or lend out anything if I wanted to ever see it again in one piece. My understanding is that the "sharing economy" is based on that same polite fiction that underlies anarchism: people won't take advantage of each other, so introducing rules and contingencies just clogs up the process and engenders bad feelings. I wouldn't rent out anything major to a perfect stranger unless they were leaving me their firstborn as collateral because, frankly, I've been burned too many times with that kind of thing.

Re: Renting out YOUR personal bike

[(Anonymous)]

no. I'm rich and bacteriophobic

Re: Renting out YOUR personal bike

[herpymcderp]

Nope.

People wouldn't want to use my bike. It's a 40lb beast and though I can carry it around people always want to rent superlight little city bikes. Furthermore it's a bit of a rustbucket with a squeaky brake and clunky gearshift. I bought it because it's very fucking unlikely to get stolen and still gets me where I need to go, but it's not the kind of thing other people should be riding.

Re: Renting out YOUR personal bike

[(Anonymous)]

Could be an interesting concept, but I wouldn't be too happy about it - even if it's insured, I'd much prefer keeping my bike instead of getting the insurance money to get a new one should it get damaged or stolen.

Also, in the bigger cities of my country, that wouldn't be necessary - the public transportation companies usually have bikes that you can rent standing all over the towns (works similar to the system you're talking about: you call the number on the bike, the bike gets unlocked and you pay for the time you use it and just leave the bike whereever you want).