Yeah, I don’t know how bike rental from shops might differ from municipal bike share systems. The stats I was reading didn’t examine bike rentals.
I would think bike rentals might allow for both faster riding (you can rent road bikes) and more technically challenging off-road riding (you can rent mountain bikes). Most bike shares offer one kind of bike, and it’s one of those ‘Dutch style’ commuter machines, only heavier and more rugged, and usually without luxuries like a three-speed hub.
