Pedal Anywhere
Posted July 1, 2013 at 8:51 am by Tim Dustrude
I just heard from Lynn Danaher that there’s a new bike rental business opening today in Friday Harbor. Check this out.
PedalAnywhere is launching on Monday July 1 in Friday Harbor, WA, offering online reservations for weekly and monthly bike rentals, with pricing starting at only $115 per week. PedalAnywhere will be offering hybrid and vintage road bike rentals, and can deliver your bikes directly to your door! PedalAnywhere has been making long-term bike rentals possible in Seattle since early 2012, and is now expanding for the first time to the San Juan Islands. Read more on their website here.
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4 comments:
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We have an unmatched full service bike shop in town that has been with us for decades. I say support our local businesses or you may wake up some morning and we will not have a place to buy a bike, have it tuned up.
A Seattle business trying to take away a mainstay of our local bike shop business may be how our capital system works but it doesn’t do local bikers any favors if it runs Island Bicycles out of town.
I 100% agree with you Karen.
They’ve been in business since when? 2012! My, my. Island bicycles has been running a full service shop since forever! New bikes, rentals, parts, service, accessories and a mountain of experience; no one-hit-wonder here folks.
Hi,
I’m Lucas, the founder of PedalAnywhere. Thanks for posting about our new service, we’re excited to bring more long-term bike rental options to the San Juans and get more and more people biking as a means of transportation and a way of life.
I think our press release gave a bit of the wrong impression — we’ve partnered with Travel Light Cycles, a bike shop run by Mikial Denker in the Surina Business Park, owned by Lynn Danaher. Mikial has been running the shop for five years, focusing on selling refurbished used bikes, especially the now-trendy older steel-frame road bikes, at reasonable prices and providing bike repair and maintenance. As we expand out of Seattle, one of our priorities is to partner with existing bike shops to bring a new service — weekly and monthly bike rentals — to communities where we think demand exists. We are not providing daily rentals, and will be referring those customers to Island Bicycles.
One thing we’ve found is that visitors to Seattle are often “recruited” to bike-transportation by their experience here. We are strongly committed to bikes as a healthy and environmentally sound alternative to gasoline-powered transportation, and we think that long-term bike rentals (many of our customers are monthly rentals) are an important step in achieving that goal.
Our vision is that eventually hourly bike share, daily bike rental, and weekly/monthly bike rental will all coexist and contribute to a healthy community, as we’ve seen through many European examples where all three of these options thrive. This is truly an instance where growing visibility for biking — through strong marketing — will in the end grow the market for everyone as we help to enhance the reputation of the San Juans as a destination for biking travelers.
Thanks for reading,
Lucas
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