Nearby communities may have a head start, but bike share looks like a cinch to debut in Culver City – by next year.

Mayor Jeff Cooper is as enthused as the most devoted cyclist about the coming long-awaited debut of a bike explosion, popular in many cities.

“There has not been anything holding it up,” he said.

“Nobody has been fighting bike sharing.

“We just have been waiting for a couple of studies and the results of research.”

After noting that he and his wife Rafia are “casual” bike riders, Hizzoner identified three types of bicyclists:

“You have casual people like us, serious, competitive people who race and then you have the commuter.”

From this distance, the arrival of bike share may shape a revolution in traffic – the good kind of revolution.

“There are going to be quite a few bike-share stations across Culver City, basically connecting folks using the transportation lines, and trying to get other places, too,” Mr. Cooper noted,

“Bike share will make it a lot easier to get around” with 280 bikes available in Culver City, and twice that number accessible in surrounding communities.

The mayor counsels enthusiasts to be patient about Opening Day.

“It probably will be mid-2018 at best before we see anything,” Mr. Cooper said,

City Hall will be fielding what the mayor called “the smarter bikes that are being checked out in a couple of cities. The technology is pretty much new.”

For that reason, the mayor said, the launch “won’t be happening anytime soon.”