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    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeJul 20th 2010
     
    Here they come...


    Hmmmm....
    • CommentAuthorRapattack
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2010
     
    The main joy I get from this is the sound of a thousand weeping cabbies (excluding Nick of course)
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      CommentAuthor1+1/8
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2010
     
    they look shit now, what are they gonna look like in a year or 2,

    by the way, bikes are good for the environment
    • CommentAuthorRapattack
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2010
     
    what are they gonna look like under the wheels of a truck?
    • CommentAuthorRapattack
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2010
     
    oh and have u seen the charges,
    Late Return charge: £150
    Non Return Charge: £300
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    How does that work?
    Do you have to swipe a credit card, or if you're late do you have to put in £150 to get your Pound Coin back?
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      CommentAuthorSideshow
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2010
     
    To play devils advocate: you've got a puncture, you forgot your tool bag and spare tube at home, your bag is full of double-rushes, and you're ten minutes walk from the nearest bike shop. And you spot one of these parked up across the street...
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2010
     
    A txt I just got from Scottish Scott:

    I nearly got hit off on Oxford st by 5 cycle hire bikes out on a test ride.
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    Five? I bet it was only one, and Scott had been in the boozer all afternoon was seeing 5 of everything.

    He does have form:

    http://www.movingtargetzine.com/article/theres-a-word-for
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2010
     
    lol!
    • CommentAuthordubmess
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2010
     
    We've been dealing with these in Dublin for about a year now.

    Great to see so many people using them and people who generally wouldn't cycle getting out and about, on the flip side of that you have woefully inexperienced cyclists blasting around busy city streets still in pedestrian mindset.

    I'm amazed nobody has been killed on one here yet.

    Watch your backs... worse than couriers ;)
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      CommentAuthorToby Wrong
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2010
     
    Amazed to see them still around in Dublin. I'd have said they'd go within weeks. But then I can never work Dubliners out. (Nor can Louth at the moment.) Used to ride up there from Wexford occasionally when I was seriously fit... then turn around and go home again pretty sharpish.
    Even more pikeys and vermin than in London. And even more Guardian reading politically correct Noo Layba twats... though they only have Old Labour to vote for to get the Biffo out.
    I reckon they might be handy for any cycle couriers who hit cars up the arse and need to put their work bikes in for repair.
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    Who's gonna be the first to place a sticker ver the Barclays logo - fucktaxis on every one?
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      CommentAuthorglib
    • CommentTimeJul 25th 2010
     
    wonder how long before we can buy them down brick lane?
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      CommentAuthormungo
    • CommentTimeJul 25th 2010
     
    i see number 11237... thought we were only getting 6000 of these or was that bullshit
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeJul 26th 2010
     
    On the rear bike i see no. 17729... so who knows?
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      CommentAuthorcurly
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2010
     
    theve just been introduced in Melbourne but with the stupid helmut law their quite redunte
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      CommentAuthorglib
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2010
     
    what about lights and reflectors??? its already getting dark earlier...winters coming.
    • CommentAuthordubmess
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2010
     
    @glib although I can't see them in the attached pics, they are exactly like the Dublin ones and so should have lights as part of the front rack/bars and integrated into the rear mudguard. Hub dynamos so they're constantly on. Really bright and work very well.

    @Toby Wong I was equally surprised and confused by their acceptance in Dublin. Saw some kids dancing on the bikes at some of the rack for a couple of days, but it seem like once they realised how bombproof they were and nothing could be nicked off them they just got bored and gave up!

    Haven't seen a messenger on one yet... I tried one myself for one job... really didn't like it. Incredibly twitchy steering and such a jump between gearings (not to mention my hipster cred plummeting with every revolution!), but, that being said, they are perfect for the size of this city as you can bomb from one side to the other in about 15 minutes. Not sure how that'll work out in the sprawl of Londinium.
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010 edited
     
    seem to be a bit better thought out than the spanish equivalent (in Seville)
    Although I note a lack of a lock on the London version?


    (Is this fuckin video showing up?)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzBZpOHksWI
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeJul 31st 2010
     

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