Bikes are piled up after the afternoon rush hour Cycle Hire bikes piled up near Royal Festival Hall, as far as the eye can see. Over 100 of them. At first blush it looks like some pesky delinquents have been preparing them for sale to …
The London Open Bike Polo tournament takes place on 21st- 22nd of August in Newington Gardens, Southwark. An Olympic sport in 1908 (Ireland beat Germany for the gold) bike polo has had international ups and downs (2 world wars didn’t do it any favours) and …
Photo / suburbanslice TfL has confessed to what anecdotal evidence has long pointed to: namely, that thousands of people have been wrongly overcharged whilst riding Cycle Hire bikes. The exact figure remains a mystery: a spokesperson said that “a couple of thousand” of the 40,000 …
Local businesses want an outright ban on cycling along the South Bank, flags the Standard. The riverside walk between the London Eye and the Oxo Tower is nearly always busy with pedestrians of both the tourist and local persuasion. Cycling through the throng is simply …
Timely publication, this, reaching the bookshelves at precisely the moment that more of us are taking to two wheels thanks to the cycle hire scheme and cycle superhighways. The London Cycling Guide by Tom Bogdanowicz sets itself up as the complete reference for Londoners. Over …
Something delightfully daft for a Friday afternoon: the boys at Going Going Bike unleashed a talking bike on the people of Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove in a novel attempt to promote their second hand bike auction website. Filling the basket full of sweets was …
The first thing to note is: the cycle hire scheme works. We rocked up to a station in Shoreditch at a little after 6am this morning, inserted the key into the docking station, waited for the green light on the machine to flash, and seconds …
Screenshot from London Cycle App Just one day now before the cycle hire scheme launches, and already the question is being asked: what’s the best mobile app to use? A month ago, TfL urged app developers to get on the case and, and they’ve responded …
After a short delay caused by the well-known payment problems that affected early registrants for Barclays Cycle Hire, a welcome pack and membership access key dropped through our letterbox on Tuesday. Click through the pics above to see what’s included. The bikes will be available …
The Guardian’s design critic Justin McGuirk is incensed by the amount of corporate branding that Barclays have been allowed in the Cycle Hire and Cycle Superhighway schemes. In describing it as “surely the largest piece of branding in existence”, McGuirk is particularly vexed by the …
Photo // stuart.noble The Barclays Cycle Hire scheme is now open for registration for those who wish to become a member. To join, you need to be 18 and have a UK credit or debit card billing address. Fill in the form on the TfL …
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