[kotsy]

well unless they make the e-bikes free (included with the membership that is)

though even then, sometimes you want to get some more exercise in

Free would be nice, but couriers would hog them again. Which is fine, because I don't want an e-bike almost ever. But if they're used all day by couriers then regular riders who do want them will take regular bikes instead, making it harder for people like you and I to get a bike at all. Maybe I'm just over reacting. I wonder what they're final goal is for ratio of regular bikes to e-bikes.

 

[Northern Light]

50,000 rides in a single day is crazy. was that the free day?

Not sure, but that would make sense.

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The record daily ridership for Citibike in New York (a larger system) is 193, 645 achieved last Sept 20th.

I think with this year's expansion, 60,000 daily rides is quite realistic by sometime in fall.

 

[PL1]

Free would be nice, but couriers would hog them again. Which is fine, because I don't want an e-bike almost ever. But if they're used all day by couriers then regular riders who do want them will take regular bikes instead, making it harder for people like you and I to get a bike at all. Maybe I'm just over reacting. I wonder what they're final goal is for ratio of regular bikes to e-bikes.

The only pluses to the Bike Share e-bikes potentially getting used by couriers is that they are pedal assist and top out at about 28 km/h. The e-bikes many use don't require pedalling and seem to go a bit faster

 

[innsertnamehere]

Aren't the city e-bikes speed limited to 25km/h?

Normal private ebikes are limited to 32km/h comparatively, and it's fairly easy from my understanding to remove the limiter (as I'm sure many deliver drivers do). Often they can do closer to 50km/h without a limiter.

 

[PL1]

Aren't the city e-bikes speed limited to 25km/h?

Normal private ebikes are limited to 32km/h comparatively, and it's fairly easy from my understanding to remove the limiter (as I'm sure many deliver drivers do). Often they can do closer to 50km/h without a limiter.

I can get them to 28...

 

[afransen]

Free would be nice, but couriers would hog them again. Which is fine, because I don't want an e-bike almost ever. But if they're used all day by couriers then regular riders who do want them will take regular bikes instead, making it harder for people like you and I to get a bike at all. Maybe I'm just over reacting. I wonder what they're final goal is for ratio of regular bikes to e-bikes.

How about the first two 30 minute sessions per day are free?

 

[slicecom]

I can get them to 28...

You can get them much faster than 28, but the pedals are only assisted to 25. After that, you’re using your leg muscles to go faster.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

You can get them much faster than 28, but the pedals are only assisted to 25. After that, you’re using your leg muscles to go faster.

Can confirm, got to 35 km/h on the electric bikes this morning going downhill. It only assists you up to 28 km/h though.

However, it is becoming a real "issue" in Midtown that when the bikes are actually restocked (hoorah) it is usually something like 12 ebikes and 0 normal bikes. You don't really need the ebikes for going downhill, I would have preferred a normal bike.

 

[Towered]

You can get them much faster than 28, but the pedals are only assisted to 25. After that, you’re using your leg muscles to go faster.

My beautiful, silver, Bosch-powered Norco e-bike (before it was stolen by a degenerate lowlife) used to assist up to 32 kph. I think the fastest I ever managed to go on a downhill in Etobicoke was 48...

 

[txlseries4]

I posted a part of this a few pages back but I think it’s worth posting it again in “full”. This is an engineer on the cycling/pedestrian team at the City, replying to someone about how the “average trips per bike have increased by about 30% between 2019 & 2024”

There’s ~9000 bikes in the fleet, 1800 are e-bike, so napkin math that’s 14000 classic trips per day vs 9000 e-bike trips. I see enough stations with loads of e-bikes where I now assume it’s from riders and not staff rebalancing

 

[generalcanada]

my bosch ebike can do 32. its all muscle after that. though on a downhill ive hit 50 before on bayview south of eglinton. i hit 60 on a crazy downhill in port elgin before

 

[TwoWheelPoli]

Found out this morning BIXI Montréal plans to have 50 bike trailers by the end of this year which can be used with their BIXI bikes. Hope Bike Share Toronto takes note and brings them in ASAP!

Oh The Urbanity! (@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social)

That’s so cool! Montreal’s bike share system is rolling out trailers that work on BIXIs as well as personal bikes. They’re hoping to have 50 by the end of the summer, and hundreds over the next few years. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

bsky.app

 

[Northern Light]

Found out this morning BIXI Montréal plans to have 50 bike trailers by the end of this year which can be used with their BIXI bikes. Hope Bike Share Toronto takes note and brings them in ASAP!

Tag their social with this as ask!

They're on Twitter/X and Facebook.

 

[torontowest91]

anymore coming to the west? aka humber bay shores/queensway? etc

 

[Northern Light]

anymore coming to the west? aka humber bay shores/queensway? etc

There might be a couple, from the extra, development funded ones.....not sure.

Nothing else was in the 'base' 2025 plan for South Etobicoke.