Mobi in Vancouver is pretty decent, some stations have reliability issues but there are enough stations to make it work. I too own a bike and use Mobi pretty much every week for the same reasons described in the article. It's also perfect when friends come visit the city and I just lend them my anual pass, it blows their mind that they can bike around mostly for free.

If only the service was slightly cheaper, and there were more AAA bike facilities specially outside downtown. Maybe one day when municipal government stops moving backward into car-dependency.