15 Sep 2024
Awful experience today.. we hired 4 bikes, including one of the larger e.bikes, unfortunately we got a flat en route to the Golden Gate Bridge and the ‘customer service’ provided no assistance whatsoever. If anything they made it worse by ignoring us and giving us conflicting information… they wouldn’t speak to us directly (only via WhatsApp) directing us to an alternative cycle shop 37min walk away (which couldn’t help anyway) and then expecting it to be pushed back to the location over a 1.5 hr walk away… This was a 40kg bike, and very difficult to push, without the SF hills! It ruined our day and cost us over $240…
We cycle a lot, we aren’t new to bike hire, flats are a common occurrence when cycling and it’s insane that they don’t have a contingency plan in place for when this happens. I dread to think how bad this could have been for someone alone, smaller, or older in the hot San Francisco sun! I can’t believe a cycle hire company would operate in this way, it is irresponsible. We’d have been much better off hiring the bikes available to hire via the on street racks and that just isn’t right… I would never ever hire from this place again and would recommend against doing so if you’re even considering it!