The Victorian government has announced it will shut down the Melbourne bike share program nine years and $2 million dollars after it started.

Each of the bikes in Melbourne's bike share scheme is being used on average once a day, according to government-supplied statistics.

Scrapping the scheme has prompted the state's peak cycling group, Bicycle Network, to call for the bikes to be sent to towns like Bendigo, Ballarat and Geelong.

Bike Bendigo's president Nicola Dunnicliff-Wells said that was not something her group had a position on.

"I must admit it's not something that is on our radar at all. I only heard about it (scrapping Melbourne's scheme) an hour ago," she said.

The group would need to learn more about why the scheme failed, Ms Dunnicliff-Wells said.

Regional cities would be "the perfect" fit for bike sharing, Bicycle Network general manager of public affairs Anthea Hargreaves said.

"The scheme was too small to work in Melbourne, but it is an ideal size for Victoria's regional cities which are crying out for increased investment in bike riding and active transport," she said.

"A small network of docks and bikes in Melbourne was the number one reason for the failure of the program. The key to a successful bike share scheme is accessibility, location and scale."

Melbourne's scheme involves 600 bikes spread across 50 stations. Brisbane's successful scheme averages 2000 trips a day across 150 docking stations and more than 1000 bikes, Ms Hargreaves said.

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Ms Dunnicliff-Wells said the most important issue in Bendigo right now is connecting fragmented bike paths and other infrastructre.

"That's what's stopping people riding bikes. They don't feel comfortable riding amongst other traffic."

A City of Greater Bendigo survey recently found women were particularly concerned about riding bikes on roads. Just 25 per cent were comfortable riding in an on-road bike lane.

If blue bikes were to come to Bendigo, thought would likely be needed on separating bikes and cars within the CBD, Ms Dunnicliff-Wells said.

"I would imagine that would be one area you would want to have the scheme, if it came to town," she said.

About 70 per cent of trips taken on the bikes in Melbourne were by tourists or for leisure, rather than by Melburnians as a mode of transport, according to government-supplied statistics.

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