Quote Originally Posted by PamNY View Post
I checked rental prices -- respectable bike rental outfit charges $44 a day for same type of bike; the less organized and probably illegal operation on the Brooklyn Bridge charges $30-35.
I guess location is everything. You can rent a car for that in my neck of the woods! Bike are more like $15.

I'd be happy to rent out my commuter when I'm not home to use it. But I'd want the rental agency to take care of maintenance. I'm not sure that lending to friends vs. renting to strangers is really different in that regard - I hate to stereotype, but I think it's more a male/female thing. We let a friend stay in our house for a couple of weeks while we were out of town and offered him the use of our bikes, and when we got back the house was fine but as far as DH's commuter bike, one rim was dented, all kinds of fasteners were loose ...

My roadie, nope, nobody rides that when I'm not there to supervise. And since I don't ride with anyone my size who uses Look pedals so we could swap bikes for a few miles, no one has ridden it but me.