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October 2, 2025

Divvy lifehacks with your friendly cyclist pal

Our bike share network is called Divvy. It’s been owned by Lyft for a minute. Works great. Use it all the time.

Divvy has a raft of blue bikes & white e-bikes around the city. I mostly use the white e-bikes. They move fast, work well enough, and I can clip them pretty much anywhere. I’m grateful that Divvy exists. They do a good job with it.

Normally when you’re done riding, you find one of the many Divvy bike racks around the city, push it into a station, and it locks automatically. That being said, the e-bikes have a special little feature: a cable that you can push into the side that locks the bike anywhere. The moment you push the cable into its side clip, the bike locks and you can’t move it anymore. You usually get charged $1.30, but sometimes convenience wins, and so.

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