What the bikes will look like. / photo via CDTA

The upcoming bike share from CDTA -- CDPHP Cycle -- has now posted pricing info.

The base pricing for using the bikes will be $5 per hour (prorated to the minute). There's also an "out of hub" fee of $2 and a "brought to hub" bonus of $1. In other words, checking out a bike will incur a $2 fee (before any time is used) and you get a buck back if you return the bike to one of the bike share hubs. (The bikes don't have to returned to a hub. The electronic tech for the renting the bikes is on the bikes themselves, and they're equipped with GPS.)

The bike share is starting off in zones that include the cores of Albany, Saratoga Springs, Schenectady, and Troy. There's a charge of $25 for leaving a bike outside the zones.

As mentioned, that's the base rate. There are also membership plans that, like buying in volume, will make using the bikes cheaper on a per-minute basis:

+ 60 minutes daily for $15 per month

+ 60 minutes daily for $70 per year

+ 60 minutes daily for $35 per year for students

+ 90 minutes daily for $105 on a "founding member" two-year plan

Registration for the founding member plan is currently open. General registration -- and the other plans -- presumably will be available soon because CDTA is projecting the bike share will start operating by the end of July.

CDPHP Cycle will include 160 bikes spread across 38 stations. Next year, CDTA is planning to add an additional 20 stations.

Earlier:

+ Here are the station locations for the bike share starting later this summer

+ A few more details about the upcoming CDTA bike share

CDTA advertises on AOA.