Ouibike
Ouibike says yes to… well, bikes of course
Ouibike is a French start-up that offers online bike rental for users. Ouibike’s platform is a marketplace of over 300 bike stores and rentals all over France.
Today, many bike shops have to compete with modern bike rental options such as on-demand “swappable” electric city bikes. Traditionally, one would have to locate and enter a bike shop to rent a bicycles. Ouibike digitalizes this process and offers to deliver and pick up the rented bike at the user’s location. Customers thereby avoid the inconvenience of locating, picking up and returning the rental bike.
By making bike rental as convenient as possible, Ouibike encourages sustainable transportation while providing income for local bike businesses. Working with a range of different bike shops, Ouibike can offer a variety of bicycles including mountain bikes, race bikes, electric and cargo bikes. In 2018, 15.000 bikes were rented to locals and tourists through the service.
Ouibike makes sustainable transportation easier and more accessible (11.2, 11.6)
Ouibike creates income for local bike shops by providing a convenient online bike rental platform (8.3, 8.9)
Through Ouibike, tourists have access to a sustainable mean of transportation with a positive local economic impact (12.B)
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