Montreal’s Bixi bike-sharing service to end its season just before midnight on Nov. 15

Montrealers, take note: as of the posting of this article, you have a little more than seven hours to make use of the city’s Bixi bike-sharing service before the season closes.

For 2015, Bixi will wrap up its season a minute before the clocks strike midnight — 11:59 pm Eastern time — anticipating the return of winter and, in keeping with that, the return of its bikes to seasonal hibernation. When the work week begins on Monday, 5,200 bikes — accounting for 460 stations in all — will be taken apart piece by piece, their ‘tubes and tires put into storage until the warmer months return.

If, however, you’ve reserved and taken out a bike before closing time, it can still be returned after the fact. Once Monday morning rolls around, though, that’s it. Until spring of 2016, Bixi-using riders in Montreal won’t be able to reserve another one as long as the snow keeps falling.

At the end of the 2014 season, the company reported enormous, encouraging numbers, claiming that 3.6 million rides were taken by local cyclists and 33,000 members had signed up. It was a dramatic uptick in the local bike-sharing service’s fortunes, after bankruptcy nearly flatted Bixi’s role in Montreal cycling. With the help of the city, Bixi not only emerged from bankruptcy, but went on to chalk up a surplus of $818,275, the CBC reports.

Similar statistics for 2015, Bixi promises, will be published “shortly.”