Hi! We've set up a free bike rental outfit here in Wellington nz, and are starting another one down in Invercargill. It's been a fun spin off of Mechanical Tempest, our bike collective. We've got a fleet of about 8 bikes, that anyone can rent for a week (up to a month if you really want), that comes with a helmet, lights and a combo lock (that also has a key that we keep just in case).

We did a lightweight crowdfunding campaign to raise about a grand - https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/1688.

Here's the Wellington Wünderbike site http://wunderbike.blogspot.co.nz/ (which I'd like to redo at some point)

Here's the code of honour http://wunderbike.blogspot.co.nz/p/membership_26.html that potential members agree to.

The membership form http://wunderbike.blogspot.co.nz/p/membership-form.html

I've also made a little open source app https://github.com/jdoud/wunderbike-rails for tracking rental status of the bikes (so we can check and see if a bike is available without going down to where we store them). Here's an example of it http://frozen-chamber-7656.herokuapp.com/rentals, and here's the code https://github.com/jdoud/wunderbike-rails. I'd love to build more features into it at some stage for member authentication, uploading pictures and descriptions of the bikes and a calendar system where people could reserve the bikes.

It's been a great experience that has support of local council. Good luck and let me know if we can help at all!

Cheers, Jesse

Consider listing through spinlister.com. They provide insurance.

On Friday, July 4, 2014, Jennifer Kay jen.louise.kay@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Folks,

Our community bicycle cooperative, La Bikery, is looking to start up a small bike rental business. We plan to create a survey to small organizations who run bicycle rentals so we can learn as much from you as possible as we plan! First step, we need a list of folks to contact.

*What small-scale bike rental outfits do you know of?*

Cheers, Jennifer Kay La Bikery Moncton, New Brunswick www.labikery.com