Fear for your lives next summer

That the cards can be cloned is well known- but it's not that much of an issue to the general populace is it?

You need to have the know how and the tech to do it, and realistically it's just not worth doing so that you can obtain a free bicycle.

You're getting the bike, and someone else is paying for it without them knowing. That's the pain. imagine the bad press?

no reason to go that way when you can have a credit/debit card system - and let's face it - everyone has one nowadays.

Plus do you know how horrific the Oyster payment gateway could be? letting a third party (who runs the bike scheme) into that, yeeeeeek keep away. contractual hell. what if they broke it? liability++

anyway, no matter, it's sorted - it won't start off being Oyster'd. We'll all see how this pans out...