Bike Sharing Program Maps for Destinations Around the World

Bike sharing is becoming more and more popular in recent years. It’s a great way to cut down costs on personal finances, take care of the environment and not be so flabby. There are a lot of places all over the world that have bike sharing programs, which normally offer public bikes you can rent and return to designated bike stations. If you don’t have space at your place for a bike and don’t like to do the maintenance and servicing, this is a pretty good option.

Not all cities have programs and there are some cities that don’t require you to use a helmet (pretty dumb). There’re programs that have evolved from the free-for-all sharing (pick up a bike and leave it UNLOCKED so that the next person who needs it can use it and go) which lead to theft and vandalism. Now there are pretty sophisticated sharing systems which require membership.

Pretty cool.

So after doing a little research, I’ve put together a couple of resources. These are links to bike maps around the world. Wherever you are, if you are thinking of renting a bike, check these maps out and see where you can get involved.

BikeShare is an interesting link in that it shows you a map of the biking area of cities that have programs. There are dots on the map representing where there are stations and where you can find free bikes. The thing that sucks about it is that there isn’t a key on the side to show you exactly what the colored dots mean and the dropdown list on the side names the biking programs by their original names and not by where they are located. So in Paris, the bike share system is called Velib but if you didn’t know that, you’re assed out.

BikeShare Map

The oobrian Bike Share Map is pretty badass. This is similar to the previous map but there is a drop down and a tab bar where you can click by city. A color-coded key is located in the top right to show you at any given time how empty or occupied a bike station is. Move your cursor over any of the dots and it will show you how many bikes there are in that moment at that station. The number of bike sharing cities are limited but they include enough of the big names to keep you entertained.

The Oliver O'Brien Bike-Share Map

The Bike-sharing World Map on Google Maps. Now this next map is my favorite. This has sharing cities all over the world. It can show you the currently inactivate ones, the ones that are being planned and the ones that are currently active.

Bike-Sharing World Map

If you are a map nut like me, you’ll probably be on these three pages for a very long time.