Our blue bikes have to be docked – which is a good thing.

Over the past two weeks, I've been trialling Melbourne's two bike-share schemes while waiting for a bike rack to free up at work. My experience, on the whole, has been positive, so much so in fact that I've decided to use bike-share – one of them anyway – as my main mode for getting to work.

I found Melbourne Bike Share's blue bicycles were nicer to ride – if only for the fact its three gears that made the city's gentle slopes a bit easier to manage than the single-gear oBike in yellow.

The blue bikes were also usually in better condition. It could be that they have a better maintenance program or that various parts on the yellow bikes like the handbrakes were less sturdy.