Mobi by Rogers

I don’t understand the struggle or hate against this. It was quick to get set up and at a better rate than renting bike from a shop. Must be boomers making accounts because I had zero issues. My only gripe is that there aren’t electric bikes at all the stations, so you have to walk a bit further to get an electric bike, or take a mechanical bike to get to an electric bike

We had a great time using these bikes with a day pass on a sunny Vancouver weekend. The city rivals as the most bike lanes and accessibility in all of North America, and I’m glad I did not listen to the reviews as we were almost too put off to try them. Vs renting a bike for the day, these bikes are incredibly bulky (like any bike share system a la SF, Portland, NYC) but let you switch up your mode of transit from spot to spot at whim which makes it worth it for us.I think the negative reviews are either old or user error, or maybe even bike rental shops trying to discourage usage. Your first clue that it works just fine is that you’ll see hundreds of people using them all over the city…we figured if somehow they’re all getting bikes we’d be fine. We decided to try two day passes on one account and never had a problem, checking out bikes 8-10x through the day. Popular stations were even staffed with friendly people who were there to help anyone with issues creating accounts, returning bikes, etc.. they even offered tips on where to go To address some of the comments:- you do have to check the bike in within 30 mins on a day pass or you get charged per minute. This is in line with any of this type of system. You can dock them and check them out immediately to keep riding. We only had a problem biking the circumference of Stanley park and went over a few mins. The stations are somewhat spread out and we got stuck in a line of very slow people. It is one way (counter clock wise) and got too narrow to pass towards the end.- the app was updated a while ago and you can see a pretty accurate count of bikes at stations. Showing your own location is weird I always just had to tap my location button twice to get it to show up again- popular areas may have no more slots to put bikes and you have to find the nearest next station. If there is an attendant they’ll help you return it without a dock. It’s just the way the system works, they mention you can call if this happens and they’ll refund you.- make sure to confirm that the bike is fully pushed in when you return it. Watch the screen it will tell you your trip time and then ding.

I’ll give Mobi a good review. For the sheer size of what they’re trying to pull off, they did a pretty good job. Their app worked well enough, the bikes all handled decently well, and my experience we good! The only downside is that sometimes returning the bike was difficult as it wouldn’t register.