Do you ever remember a time when there was no iPhone or Android phones? Those days are so far gone, and we just take these tech appendages for granted.
The Smartphone has revolutionized so many aspects of our lives. This is as true in developed countries, as well as in developing, or even underdeveloped countries.
We cannot deny the positive impacts of the smartphones and the ecosystem of apps and related technology that it helped create.
Biking is a great way to commute. You can save some money on gas and you get a chance to exercise without going to the gym. I sometimes ride my bike to go to my office in Nashville. It’s a 26-km ride in the morning. I need to travel that distance to go back home.
My work responsibilities sometimes takes me to other cities and countries. It’s difficult to keep to routines and habits while traveling. As much as I want to ride my bike in different cities, I can’t bring my bike with me all the time.
That’s where bike-sharing comes in. Several startups have already started competing in this space. There’s B-Cycle in Nashville, Citi-bikes in New York, Bixi in Canada, and oBike from Singapore among others. My wife has tried the B-Cycle in Nashville sometime back and she liked it.
I found myself in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on a business trip last August. I saw a lot of bikes on the city streets under the train stations, near hotels, near malls, on the sidewalks, and near all the touristy areas. The day before I left, I tried riding one of them just to get a feel for how to use it, move around the city in a bike, (and well, so I could write about it on this blog.)