If you bike every weekday: (52 weeks/year * 5 days/week * 1€/day) + 12 = 272€.
Add in however much you think these bits of hassle are worth:
• various amounts of time spent looking for a bike, especially if you go somewhere they don't tend to cluster and someone else took the one you're using
• bikeshare bikes are typically kind of heavy and clunky, possibly with solid tires that don't blow out but transmit every bump in the road to you
• bikeshare bikes are usually one-size-fits-all, which I guess is fine if you're the perfectly average size, but they're always too small for me; an improperly-sized bike is harder to ride and can create more strain on your body
And of course you can subtract maintenance costs, I'll pull 50€ out of my ass as a yearly number for that.
> bikeshare bikes are usually one-size-fits-all, which I guess is fine if you're the perfectly average size.
I think they are tiny. I have wondered how they got this so wrong, but decided that it must be intentional. It prevents long journeys and limits the frequency of curb hopping and other damage causing activity.
One size fits all cannot be average, it has to be tiny. You can fold a tall person into a small bike, but you can't stretch a short person onto a large bike.
There seemed to be a series of Chinese companies that offered particularly small bikes in Paris. Ofo and Mobike were (are?) just tiny. Maybe they came from a market where the average person was significantly smaller? The bikes were pretty much unusable on a shallow incline if you were of even average height. For comparison, my 9 year old child has a bike that has a larger frame than those ones.
Add in however much you think these bits of hassle are worth:
• various amounts of time spent looking for a bike, especially if you go somewhere they don't tend to cluster and someone else took the one you're using
• bikeshare bikes are typically kind of heavy and clunky, possibly with solid tires that don't blow out but transmit every bump in the road to you
• bikeshare bikes are usually one-size-fits-all, which I guess is fine if you're the perfectly average size, but they're always too small for me; an improperly-sized bike is harder to ride and can create more strain on your body
And of course you can subtract maintenance costs, I'll pull 50€ out of my ass as a yearly number for that.