London Cycle Hire

Since when Brompton cost £1000?!

Range from £700 to £1500, so a grand was a pretty good midpoint.

Bromptons are for anoraks.

Since when Brompton cost £1000?!

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

yeah, meaning it's your problem is anything goes wrong on it. Much simpler to only have to leave it to someone else and only ride the bike where you need to.

I can see people not wanting to own a bike and have to deal with the storage, maintenance and theft. A lot of people just want a cheap commute or to see what the city looks like above ground.

A grand for a Brompton! You can buy a bike twice as big for half as much!

Why is it ok to spend a thousand on a crabon road bike but not on a commuter?

Range from £700 to £1500, so a grand was a pretty good midpoint.

Dang. Mine was £150 second-hand but unridden from a LBS. Mind you, that was 6 years ago before the world went barking mad, bike price-wise.

Still regularly get shite from train company tw@ts about carrying it during commuter times mind....

Because, Ed, that would be like paying for Air Jordans and then just walking to the shop in them.

Not seen the one on the right before.

So that's where all my bank charges go

Well, there's usually more money to be made if your customer needs to buy a new {insert product here} after every use...

Bombs are expensive and if they work right, not reusable. Also, people have a seemingly endless desire to kill each other. Sounds like a solid business worth investing in to me...

Well, there's usually more money to be made if your customer needs to buy a new {insert product here} after every use...

Bombs are expensive and if they work right, not reusable. Also, people have a seemingly endless desire to kill each other. Sounds like a solid business worth investing in to me...

... that is unless you consider all the budget cuts in defence on the way :)

There is a good bit in the current Private Eye on page 8:

The rear admiral {representing the arms industry trade body} gasped that "we are the second best defence exporter in the world."
At this, the committee's chairman, James Arbuthnot (Con, NE Hants), bridled slightly, saying "Your duty is not exports but the defence of this country"

There is a good bit in the current Private Eye on page 8:

Arbuthnot comes out of that exchange looking like a moron. As a representative of the trade, the Rear Admiral was right to be focused on the business. The defence of the nation is the duty of government, not of industry.

Arbuthnot comes out of that exchange looking like a moron. As a representative of the trade, the Rear Admiral was right to be focused on the business. The defence of the nation is the duty of government, not of industry.

Eh?

At the end of the day they still say 'Barclays' on them, regardless of what words you put around them.

Also, its all well and good to complain about them, but if they didn't sponsor them, they wouldn't be there, so you'd have more cars / busier tubes etc.

/Does not work for Barclays... just don't see the point of defacing bikes that are actually useful to people.

Boris bike scheme urged to include helmets after two riders injured here we go....

Meanwhile another helmet-less user, whose age and sex is not known, was also hospitalised after wobbling and falling off a bike they had rented in the City of London last Tuesday (SEP 14).

Oops!

5 accidents reported
more than 500,000 journeys made on the cycle hire bikes at 16 September.

cross posted in 3rd thread...

Does anyone know if it's possible to view the TFL cycle hire map as a layer in Google maps?
https://web.barclayscyclehire.tfl.gov.uk/maps

Boris bike scheme urged to include helmets after two riders injured here we go....

The first injury was sustained when a man, not wearing a helmet, was propelled over the handlebars of one of the 6,000 bikes available in central London after colliding with a refuge truck.

...he hit a caravan?

Boris bike scheme urged to include helmets after two riders injured here we go....

A few pedestrians were probably injured today in London. This would lead to calls for pedestrian helmets, but for some reason people don't want to wear them and would feel silly asking others to do so.

Brake need to fuck the fuck off.

Wow, motorists and cyclists detest them. That's some achievement!

See this tweet from @markbikeslondon

I've just found a kid's colouring in sheet on their www called 'roads are for drivers, pavements are for people' Owwwwww.

Erm - roads are for horses and* bicycles *and *motorcycles *and rickshaws and so on as well as the drivers who have been trying to achieve road domination!

Is it just me, or does 'Barclay's' sound a lot like 'brakless'?

from the telegraph thing - "Rental prices start at £1 for the first hour, rising to £50 for a day. " - surely should be "rental prices start from free for the first 30 minutes"

i also do not understand brake's rather creepy obsession with other people's safety.