London Cycle Hire

What am I inside?

Meat, bones, nerves, and all that malarkey?

Or were you asking about your immortal soul? :)

Souls don't exist.

#factattack

You could hire one?

#sadiqsouls

Souls don't exist.

#factattack

I just remembered that this entirely unsubstantiated claim is flatly contradicted by the forum's national anthem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntG50eXbBtc

I enjoyed that video immensely.

Santander cycles to get blaze lights.

You know, those annoying green laser patterns between you and the kerb.

Noticed a few on the pavement the other day was confusing.

Gathering for the launch:

Lol shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHZDJXewzkI

I saw one of these on the road (Hyde park cycle path actually) a few weeks back. Must have been testing them.

I thought those bikes always had them, very prominent.

I've seen many of these of an evening around the west end over the past month. Tourists.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/22/bike-wars-dockless-china-millions-bicycles-hangzhou

I organised that event.

A new bike hire offering in London:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2017/jul/12/londons-first-dockless-hire-bike-scheme-launches

The difficulty here, of course, is how scarce footway space will be occupied by these bikes:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/new-boris-bike-rivals-obike-told-to-remove-obstructive-bicycles-from-streets-days-after-launching-a3588336.html

Meanwhile, in Manchester:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/16/manchesters-bike-share-scheme-isnt-working-because-people-dont-know-how-to-share

(The same things happened in London if I recall correctly, and then people got used to the bikes and despite ongoing small-scale vandalism the scheme generally runs well.)

City bikes currently being installed in Brighton in time for summer

I tried out oBike just now. They're in Lewisham - left mine all the way down in Downham.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ORRelrXc4

'One gear is hard work'--what has this forum come to? :)

HA. Didn't even think about that. The shame...

I think the hard work was more down to the fact that the drum brake was rubbing. Really unpleasant ride.

I can see a new Bike Tag game here where Forum-peeps leave a bike somewhere and the challenge is to find it before some random takes it.
O-Bike Tag of O-Bike.

Come get it. Downham Way. I suspect the local kids will have it dismantled by morning.

It's certainly interesting how much clutter this will cause on London's footways, especially in Central London:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/cycle-hire-firms-in-row-amid-fears-influx-of-bike-schemes-will-clutter-londons-streets-a3590576.html

This is even before Mobike has got involved, reportedly the larger company, and I suppose there are probably others, too.

Yeah. I bet people who work in this area are really busy and tired at the moment.

So, this saga continues ...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/cyclists-fury-after-more-than-100-obike-hire-cycles-are-seized-in-clampdown-a3604771.html