Monday was Take a Radio Host to Work Day. I brought The Ticket's Craig Miller to Dallas City Hall.

If you are not a regular listener to sports-talk radio, Craig probably spends more time on a bike than anyone else in this city. He rides every day, sometimes up to 100 miles, then takes vacations to pedal across the country; Europe, too. Risks his life doing it, like that time last summer he took part in the 3,070-mile relay Race Across America and almost became road kill while negotiating a particularly treacherous stretch of wet pavement.

I offer his bike bona fides as context: As co-host of The Ticket's morning show, Craig has been a vocal critic of Dallas' Great Bike-Share Experiment, which has resulted in some 20,000 bikes being dropped on this city since August.

He loves the concept -- making it easy for anyone anywhere to hop on a two-wheeler and go for a spin in a city strangled by concrete loops. But like so many of us for whom the promising has become punch line, he hates the execution. The glut of trashed, tumped-over bikes he dodges on his daily miles-long treks around White Rock Lake or along the Santa Fe Trail. The eyesore that came with the city's well-intentioned, hands-off approach to the rent-a-bikes.

"We went about it the exact wrong way in that you don't dump 20,000 bikes and then take everyone's temperature," Craig said Monday. "Ease people into it. Get them used to parking and how to use the bikes. And if that works, then you tell the bike companies, 'You can bring in 1,000 more because this is going well.' You go from the ground floor up, and we started at the top to see how it works with no regulations."

Said Craig, "We lost before we started."

I invited him to Monday's meeting because we had been promised it would be our first glimpse at some proposed regulations Dallas City Hall was drafting to clean up the buck-an-hour rent-a-bikes sprawled across the city center and spreading outward like a neon-colored virus. That's what the city manager promised last month; the mayor, too, on Craig's radio show.

At Monday's meeting, all we were told was: The rules of the road are still being drafted as part of the franchise agreements the bike companies will have to sign if they want to continue operating in the city limits. They're coming. Eventually. In the fall.

We were told it was better to do nothing for now than too much of something we'd regret later. We were told that Dallas is "very open to new ideas" (said council member Sandy Greyson) and "disruptive new technology" (said council member Philip Kingston), and that many of the bikes that weren't tossed in the Trinity help people get to and from DART stops during rush hour.

We were told, ad infinitum, that Dallas' bike-share test-drive is not yet over.

Which means, for now, the wild west of bike share, which has more rental bikes than New York City or Seattle, will just get a little wilder. Jared White, Dallas' de facto bike czar, told me two more companies are looking to join the five already crowding Dallas' sidewalks.

One, Jump, sent a letter to the council on Monday promising it will bring so-called "lock to" tech that "ensures bikes do not litter the public right of way." A second, Zagster, brought its Pace-branded bike designed for the mobility impaired -- you pedal using your hands. Craig and I rode it around the sixth floor of City Hall. Most fun I've had at a council meeting ... ever?

The committee members said they still welcome all comers, for now and maybe forever. Lee Kleinman, the North Dallas council member who chairs the mobility committee, said of dockless bike-share that he wants to "rein it in but not choke it off." He said having so many bikes is "keeping prices low."

The price we pay.

The rules, so far, are just vague maybes written in pencil. There will probably be parking spaces of some kind -- maybe painted, maybe geofenced, maybe both. And there will likely be spacing requirements that prohibit entire downtown blocks from being covered in lime greens, bright yellows, sunset oranges and metallic grays.

The bike companies will likely be charged to use the public right of way; that money will probably be earmarked for bike infrastructure. The companies will be forced to share detailed data they have so far stashed behind the veil of proprietary. And they'll have to park bikes in neighborhoods where mass-transit stations are just out of reach.

Theoretically. At some point.

"We'll get it right," Greyson said. "It just might take a while. I hope people have patience while we work through it."

Maybe you don't remember; maybe she doesn't either. Greyson used to hate bikes. In October 2012, when the council was grousing about the lack of bike lanes, Greyson said she didn't understand how you could let people bike on the streets downtown.

"Talk about creating frustration in motorists," she said then. Now she's all for bikes.

I asked Craig what he thought of his first-ever City Council meeting. I think he spoke for all of us.

"You want more action. But it moves very slowly."

Patience, Craig. Patience, all of us.