Demand for BCycle bikes has gone “through the roof” since the Madison program when all-electric a month and a half ago, according to the bike share’s executive director.

BCycle's Morgan Ramaker said the service has logged more than 40,000 rides since the June 18 e-bike rollout, more than doubling the demand and amounting to nearly 40 percent of the total number of rides for 2018.

“What’s interesting is that most of the increase has come from local members, which speaks to the role the BCycle e-bikes are playing as a transportation option for residents,” she said in an email.

Trek-owned BCycle, operating in Madison since 2011, allows an unlimited number of rides to members. Non-members can check out the bikes using an app. Madison is the first of more than 40 cities where BCycle operates to go all-electric, though other bike-share programs have made the move. Officials in Summit County, Utah, claim that their Summit Bike Share, which went electric on 2017, was the nation’s first to do so.

“Now that people can travel farther, faster, it has been fun to see how ride patterns have changed,” Ramaker said. “Some of our outlying stations are getting more use.”