When transportation historians write about bikesharing in the US, they will look back on 2010 as a watershed year. After years of pilot programs and other incremental steps, it was in 2010 that real large-scale bikesharing finally appeared in the US, first in Denver, and later in Minneapolis and Washington.
To commemorate the big year, here is a list of all existing US bikesharing systems, ranked by size (according to the excellent Bike-Sharing Blog).
| Rank | City | Bikes | Stations |
| 1 | Washington | 1,110 | 114 |
| 2 | Minneapolis | 700 | 65 |
| 3 | Denver | 500 | 50 |
| 4 | Chicago | 100 | 6 |
| 5 | UC – Irvine | 40 | 4 |
| 6 | WSU – Pullman | 32 | 4 |
| 7 | Des Moines | 18 | 4 |
The coming years promise to take bikesharing to even greater heights. Several of the existing systems will expand, and large new networks will soon launch in Miami, New York, Boston, and a host of other important cities.
Hmmm… places that are notoriously cold are pioneering the movement, nice
Denver is actually pretty mild during the winter. We get 300 days of sun per year and a typical winter day is around 45-50. Also, the bike culture here is ahead of the curve in most American cities. It’s not actually that shocking that we had the first bike-share system in the country. I agree on DC and Minneapolis though. Everybody kinda always suspects that Denver is a winter wonderland, but it’s very tolerable in the winter.