french bikes are sexy

so everyone in paris rides these public bikes. you can rent them for a euro a day (about $1.40) or pay 30 euro for a year, plus a 150 euro depoit on the bike. then you take the bike anywhere you want for up to a half hour at a time. at the end of every half hour you have to park it atanother one of the stations or pay an hourly rental charge (something like another euro an hour). during the day they also have these special trucks that redistribute the bikes to empty stalls around town.