London Cycle Hire

you need to put the key in the slot, the light turns green, then you can struggle to release the bike.

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you need to put the key in the slot, the light turns green, then you can struggle to release the bike.

It's not that hard. Although i did help one lady twice in a day. First she couldn't dock her bike in the morning, second she couldn't un-dock it at lunch time.

I hired the bikes once a day for a week. Every time it was an effort to get it undocked. The most effective way I found was to lift up the back wheel and drop it so it bounced backwards a bit.

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Yet a well thought out post comes from all that shit.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=152036221480888

One of my mates took it upon himself to run the 8 mile Boris bike challenge I mentioned upthread.

Man wrongly charged £900 for London bike hire
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11261320

Mr Ward signed up to the cycle hire scheme in August and uses it to make part of the journey between his home and work in Westminster, central London.

Mr Ward, from Colliers Wood, south London,

huh?

lives in Colliers Wood, works in Westminster, probably gets the train in then uses it for the last bit? No?

It does say part of the journey. Maybe he gets to kennington or pimlico then gets a bike. Makes sense to me...

Or are you saying colliers wood is central london?

Copied and pasted from their facebook site;

'LET'S HAVE A CYCLE HIRE DRAG RACE!!!

ON FRIDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER WE'RE GONNA BURN UP THE MALL!

A HALF MILE DRAG STRIP IN THE MIDDLE OF LONDON WILL SORT THE BORIS' FROM THE KENS!
...
HIRE A BIKE FROM THE BARCLAYS CYCLE HIRE SCHEME ON FRIDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER AND GO TO ADMIRALTY ARCH AT 9PM TO SHOW EVERYONE YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES!
'

(puts dress back in cupboard) The drag race is postponed since the hire bikes won't be available to the unregistered masses for a few months .

This from the Facebook page

*As i'm sure you are aware, the casual use for the Barclays Cycle Scheme has been postponed until 'later in the year'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11167089

The Cycle Hire Drag race will therefore also be postponed until a suitable date is announced.

Thanks!*

Some gorilla subversive advertising.
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Ha! Nice. Where is that?

Yeah good move, lets cost the taxpayer money to clean it up...

#sarcasm

Thing I don't understand about all these riders....

Seen quite a few people riding them with all the 'nodder' kit, fluro tabbard, helmet, reflective ankle straps etc. Why don't they just buy a bike if they have all the kit?

I think it is in Shoreditch. I didnt take the pic, my brothers boss did.

Yeah good move, lets cost the taxpayer money to clean it up...

#sarcasm

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Disappointed by the lack of gorillas.

It serves to re-enforce the Barclays element to the scheme and provides some free viral advertising at the same time... ill-conceived, but playful.

I think it is in Shoreditch. I didnt take the pic, my brothers boss did.

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Seen quite a few people riding them with all the 'nodder' kit, fluro tabbard, helmet, reflective ankle straps etc. Why don't they just buy a bike if they have all the kit?

The guarantee that there will still be a bike for you at the end of the day has to be a big plus, and even a Borisbike has to be better in terms of station-to-office time than anything you're allowed to carry on commutenger trains. If you're a nodder who plans to use these on a daily basis, I can't see why you wouldn't carry all the nodder kit with you.

Well imaging if they got caught out with no bike left.

Time to buy a brompton.

Worst case you have to get on the bus with your nodder kit in a bag.

Well imaging if they got caught out with no bike left.

Time to buy a brompton.

£45 for a years access with nothing extra to carry around with you vs £1000 for a bromton you'll have to carry on the train and have to worry about fixing if it breaks.

Since when Brompton cost £1000?!

You know what's the beauty about the Brompton? it's your and nobody else.