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Your journey to the office is probably already on wheels — but you could power those wheels, with a small push from an electric motor on Uber’s new bike-share option.
Uber partnered with Jump Bikes in San Francisco to offer an electric-motor assisted ride to users for the next nine months (and pull in the bike commuters to conquer even more of the commuting market) — so I gave it a spin.
After signing up for the waitlist, I got access to the newest option on the Uber app: Uber Bike. Instead of little cars scurrying around the screen I was bombarded with all the nearby bikes and each one’s distance from me. I had plenty of options: Read more…
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