Re:power (Score 2, Interesting)

Cheap, sturdy bike with no gears designed for moving in the flat city only, it's as stripped as it gets.

This might make some sense when traveling east-west, but north-south Montreal is far from being a 'flat city', particularly downtown (in the Ville-Marie borough, where one of the four pilot depots is planned). Unless people can shift down to climb hills more easily, won't all the bikes end up at the southernmost depot?