Boris bike spotted in....Gambia?!

[Melonfish]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ire-bicycle-a-long-way-from-home-9010959.html

The image was tweeted by Oxfam’s Campaigns and Policy Director Ben Phillips, who says he only found the photograph and doesn’t claim to know how the bike got there.

If the bike was cycled the whole way to the West African country, it would have had to clock more than 3,500 miles via crossings of the English Channel and the Strait of Gibraltar.

In May, Transport for London responded to a Freedom of Information request saying that 143 bikes had been reported stolen since the start of the scheme, of which just 26 remained missing – making it extraordinarily unlikely one would make it all the way to Gambia.

but not impossible!

also:

Meanwhile, Mr Johnson has praised three friends who also decided to get creative with how far they could take a Boris Bike before incurring the £150 fine.

Matthew Winstone, Ian Laurie and Robert Holden instead paid £2 for a daily hire, took the bike up the famous Tour de France route of Mont Ventoux in southern France, before returning it with just 22 seconds to spare.

apologies if this has been posted before but this tickled me proper today.

 

[Paulus]

It shouldn't be too hard to find out how it got there. The number will still be on it, so it will be traceable to a docking station and who ever had it last. The plod should be able to trace the route it took from there.

 

[Globalti]

It'll be on CCTV all the way across the Sahara.

 

[Globalti]

It'll be on CCTV all the way across the Sahara.

 

[Smurfy]

Mont Ventoux on a Boris Bike!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...res-Boris-Bike-takes-France-Mont-Ventoux.html