The system is part of the Ecovolis bicycle sharing program launched in 2011.

The college provides students with supplemental transport through a shuttle bus system and a bicycle sharing system known as Berea Blue Bikes.

In 2011, the Nicosia Municipality introduced the Bike in Action scheme, a bicycle sharing system which covers the Greater Nicosia area.

La Rochelle launched one of the first successful bicycle sharing system in 1974.

Community bicycle programs and collectives facilitate community sharing of bicycles, restore found and broken bikes, and teach people how to do their own bike repairs.

Older or less costly utility bicycles often use 3-speed gear-hubs, such as in bicycle sharing systems.

The bicycle sharing system Vélivert with 280 short term renting bicycles is available since June 2010.

* Alta Bike Share, a provider of bicycle sharing systems in the United States and Australia

In order to facilitate transport from the car parkings in car-free cities ( located at the edge of the towns ), the implementation of bus stations, bicycle sharing stations, Shweeb terminus stations, ... near these car parkings increase transportation options.

The Hangzhou Public Bicycle program in China is the largest bicycle sharing system in the world.

Public bike sharing programs address some of the primary disadvantages to bicycle ownership, including loss from theft or vandalism, lack of parking or storage, and maintenance requirements.

Government-run bicycle sharing programs can also prove costly to the public unless subsidised by commercial interests, typically in the form of advertising on stations or the bicycles themselves.

Launched in 2008, the Hangzhou Public Bicycle program in China is the largest bicycle sharing system in the world, with around 61, 000 bicycles and over 2, 400 stations ; and it is followed by the Vélib ' in Paris, which encompasses around 20, 000 bicycles and 1, 450 bicycle stations.

To date, no publicly owned and administered bicycle sharing program has yet been able to consistently operate as a self-funding enterprise, using only revenues generated from membership subscriptions or user fees and charges.

As a consequence, most publicly owned bicycle sharing systems utilize funding from public governmental and / or charitable sources.

Many bicycle sharing schemes have been developed by a variety of organizations over the years, all based on one or more of the following systems:

The fine for not returning a bicycle or leaving the bike sharing zone exceeds US $ 150, and is strictly enforced by the Copenhagen police.

A clear disadvantage of municipal bike sharing programs as implemented by Copenhagen and Helsinki have been the significant additional costs imposed due to bicycle theft and vandalism, resulting in additional law enforcement monitoring and more frequent bike repair / replacement.

From 2001 to 2006, BikeShare, operated by the Community Bicycle Network ( CBN ) in Toronto, was for a time the most popular community bicycle sharing program in North America.

Considered to be a city less than friendly to cyclists prior to 2005, the Velo ' v program is credited with stimulating an increase of 500 % in bicycle trips within the city, a quarter of which were due to the bike sharing system.

London mayor Boris Johnson promised that an extensive bicycle sharing system modelled on the Paris Vélib ' system would be introduced in London during his first term in office.

In Greece there are also other programs similar to bicycle sharing systems, which however are not automated.

Unlike SmartBike, CaBi is a public taxpayer-supported bicycle sharing program involving both the District of Columbia and Arlington County.

Bicycle suspension refers to the system or systems used to suspend the rider and all or part of the bicycle.

The city's former mayor, Darwin Hindman, is largely in favor of a non-motorized transportation system, and can often be seen riding his bicycle around the city.

An ACDelco / GM OEM audio system re-purposed for bicycle use, crudely installed.

In areas like Santiago, Chile, a high population density is supported by a multimodal system of walking, bicycle transportation, motorcycles, buses, and trains.

Elmsford's road system connects to numerous major highways and thoroughfares, including Interstate 287, the Saw Mill River Parkway, and Route 9A ; the North County Trailway and South County Trailway bicycle paths terminate there.

Greenville is in the process of building a more comprehensive system of greenways for bicycle and pedestrian transportation.

Bush will be adjacent to the Greenhill School and will be located along Addison's trail system ; therefore the school will be accessible by bicycle or on foot from the Les Lacs and Midway Meadows subdivisions.

" The system developed into an intricate maze of wide dirt roads ( paved with gravel and corduroyed in some areas ), foot and bicycle paths, and truck parks.

In 1996 Jürg Blatter and Andreas Fuchs of Berne University of Applied Sciences built an SH bicycle and in 1998 mounted the system onto a Leitra tricycle ( European patent EP 1165188 ).

To give an example, a petrol engine is like operating a bicycle in its lowest gear where each push from your feet adds little energy to the system, but you still expend energy to move your legs back to the TDC position.

* Bicycle suspension, system of linkages that connects a bicycle to its wheels

The municipality is also developing a system of interconnected green bicycle routes, greenways, the aim being to facilitate fast, safe, and pleasant bicycle transport from one end of the city to the other.

This can be as straightforward as a simple spring mass system, through a three-degree of freedom ( DoF ) bicycle model, to a large degree of complexity using a multibody system simulation package such as MSC ADAMS or Modelica.

In the United States, the coaster brake was the most commonly fitted brake throughout the first half of the 20th century, often comprising the only braking system on the bicycle.

* The Sturmey Archer and Fichtel & Sachs ' Torpedo ' systems defaulted to top gear at slack-cable, which could make the bicycle usable for long distance travel in flat terrain even if a fault developed in the change mechanism ( rather like a derailleur system, which can be manually set to a high gear in case of a similar fault ).

He established a bicycle patrol and created the first centralized police records system, designed to streamline and organize criminal investigations.

Rotor is a trade name of a type of crank used in the transmission system of a bicycle.

They also provide a popular form of recreation, and have been adapted for such uses as children's toys, adult fitness, military and police applications, courier services and bicycle racing.

In terms of the ratio of cargo weight a bicycle can carry to total weight, it is also an efficient means of cargo transportation.

Drag can also be reduced by covering the bicycle with an aerodynamic fairing.

A cyclist's ability to repair and maintain their own bicycle is also celebrated within the DIY movement.

Bicycle touring, also known as cyclotourism, involves touring and exploration or sightseeing by bicycle for leisure.

The UCI rules also effectively ban some bicycle frame innovations ( such as the recumbent bicycle ) by requiring a double triangle structure.

It has also been argued that the introduction of New Zealand's compulsory bicycle helmet law contributed to the decline in the popularity of cycling.

With an annual bike race on city streets and the state's only velodrome, Redmond is also known as " the bicycle capital of the Northwest ".

Many states also allow their use in bicycle lanes or on roads with speed limits of up to 25 mph.

It is also the site of the Paris – Tours road bicycle race.

Scatological humour also featured heavily in the ads ; one ad featured " Clag-Gone ", which consisted of a stationary bicycle with no seat.

Bicycle motocross or BMX is the sport of racing bicycles in motocross style on tracks which use an inline start and have obstacles, and also refers to the bicycle itself, which is designed for dirt and motocross cycling.

The term road bicycle can also describe any type of bike used primarily on paved roads, in contrast to bikes primarily intended for off-road use, such as mountain bikes.

* A flat bar road bike, also called a fitness bike is a relatively new style of bicycle.

In the late 1980s Peugeot sold the North American rights to the Peugeot bicycle name to ProCycle, a Canadian company which also sold bicycles under the CCM and Velo Sport names The European rights were briefly sold to Cycleurope S. A., returning to Peugeot in the 1990s.

Various types of brake calipers are also used on bicycle rim brakes.

The young Meese also rode a bicycle on a paper route and worked in a drugstore.

Mountain biking, and bicycle racing are also recreations, and Bulgaria is one of only six countries to annually host the official 1, 200 km Randonnees-ultra-marathon bicycle rides patterned after Paris – Brest – Paris.

A significant number of tourists also come for bicycle trekking.

" Snelson also casts doubt on what many now claim to be examples of tensegrity structures such as the Georgia Dome that he says is more like a " beautifully designed giant bicycle wheel ".

A pedestrian using a walker or cane, pushing a stroller, a pram or a buggy for babies, pushing or pulling a cart or walking next to a bicycle also benefits from a curb cut.

It can also be used by someone on a bicycle, roller skates, skateboard, etc., as well as by a delivery person using a dolly.

Two interesting facts in transportation history are that both Karl Drais, the inventor of the bicycle, as well as Carl Benz, the inventor of the car were born in Karlsruhe and that Benz also studied at the city ’ s university ; and that Benz ’ s wife Bertha took the world's first long distance-drive with a car from Mannheim to Karlsruhe-Grötzingen and Pforzheim ( see Bertha Benz Memorial Route ).