Bikes and Bites

Don’t get me wrong… I think the concept of this company is great, but here’s how my experience with this company panned out:
I have a friend visiting from out of town over the weekend. I think it would be a great idea if he rents a bike for a few hours on Saturday so we can burn rubber on the American River Parkway. I start researching Sacramento bike rentals, and find the Bikes and Bites web site (which doesn’t look particularly outdated or anything), and it states the following hours:
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday 11am — 7pm (late drop off until 12am)
Sunday, Monday & Tuesday 11 am — 8pm
Perfect, right?
I don’t want to be hypocritical and drive us there (spare the air, remember!), so we walk the couple of miles from my house and find that, upon arrival, the store is closed. Not only is it closed, the storefront practically looks vacant. And in the bottom corner of the door frame, we find a printout of the current store hours (which doesn’t look particularly new) that says:
Wednesdays — Fridays: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Because, you know, who would want to rent a bike on the WEEKEND? I guess in hindsight, I should have called to make sure they were open, but I wrongly assumed any active business would strive to keep the info on its web site current.
We ended up walking an extra mile to Old Sac, where we rented a bike from Practical Cycle with no complaints.