Paris launching citywide bike rentals (and they're cheap!) {Autoblog Green}

Jul 1st 2007 12:31PM In Denmark some cities have free bike rentals. You insert a coin ( about 4$ ) and when you deliver it back to one of the many bike parking stations you get your coin back.

The bikes are pretty simple ( no gears) so they are not that expensive in maintenance. They bikes also have ads on them. That doesn't make enough money though so the cities are sponsoring the bikes.