The new Charge Smug

velocity boy You know, if it's £400 and comes with a brake... there's the root of a fixed/single speed bike hire company to be had there. London is screaming out for the ability to hire a decent bike when you need one at a decent rate. To cover £400 is pretty easy, the cost to rent a shitty hybrid in London is "Per hour £3.00, 1st day £18.00, Next days £9.00(days 2 & 3) £6.00(days 4 & 5), 1st week £48.00, 2nd week £10.00", a few Plugs in stock and a flat daily rate of £14-ish per day and you'd be set pretty quick, and this forum would provide a lot of business because you'd catch the market of people who are into fixed/ss around the world travelling to London and wanting a bike.

I think this is a great idea - when I went over to NYC last year I would have loved to be able to hire a half decent SS/Fix. I ended up taking my own bike which was great, but a certain amount of hassle. Let's face it, none of us on here would be exactly thrilled about riding around London on the kind of bikes you can actually hire here.

An obvious way to start this is for boutique (ish) bike shops to start up the scheme. Any interest from BLB / Cavendish / Mosquito etc?