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@White_Flower
Need a catchy name for the new London bike about scheme I'm working on.
Good names welcome. Shite names not.
Cheers flowers.
Also, the interview I did with Cavendish will be up soon on the Oakley team site. Some of the questions posed from guys are in there!
Here are some quick facts:
There will be 7,000 bikes in play (there are 10,000 black cabs in the whole of London)
Zone 1 is pretty big: kings cross – elephant & castle...notting hill to aldgate
Anywhere in Zone 1 you will be 300 metres from a bike zone
Set up an account online and then it’s all cashless billing.
Each bike stand has a kiosk that you enter your code and off you go.
Loan of under 30 minutes are free. A few hours will be £2 – 4
Trucks will redistribute bikes around the city to make sure they don’t all pile up in the centre.
Similar schemes in Paris and Rome have been v. succesful.
So all we need is a name?
The Paris scheme is called “Velib” (Velo Liberation – “freedom bikes”)
The Rome scheme is called Rome’n ride (ooof)