Boris Bikes - Casual Users

[swee'pea99]

BorisBikes is alliterative; 'KenBikes' isn't. QED.

 

[jimboalee]

100k chaning the bike every 30 minues to avoid charging ...

sounds like a lot of planning

On another thread, I describe a sportive as an opportunity for novice cyclists to get the group riding experience against the clock.

An Audax, I'll have you know.... is a cycling "Logistics problem".

 

[brokenbetty]

Without trawling through all the previous posts (somebody has already similar) but opening the scheme up to casual users IMO is only a good thing; Joe Bloggs is driving to work for several days in a row, stuck in jams etc with bikes going flying passed him; one morning he wakes up (a beautiful summers day) and decides on the spur of the moment to try out this cycling lark, likes it and becomes a regular cyclist.

Joe Bloggses don't usually drive to work through central London where the bikes are. It's more likely to attract peds onto bikes. Might work to encourage swapping short taxi trips for bikes.

 

[HLaB]

Joe Bloggses don't usually drive to work through central London where the bikes are. It's more likely to attract peds onto bikes. Might work to encourage swapping short taxi trips for bikes.

Whilst I'd agree, its more likely to attract peds or folk of buses/ tube (hence why I said in my OP, encouraging modal shift isn't as simple as that); I still don't think there should be a restriction placed on the possibility, however small.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Kenny's Cranks?

Livingsone's 'Locipedes?

 

[jimboalee]

Are the Boris Bikes as popular in the pissing down rain?

I've got an image in my mind's eye of thousands of blue and black bikes fastened into their ports and peds scurrying past them to hail a cab.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I think, from my perspective as a scheme user who not resident in the Great Wen and who travels to London for work 5 or 6 times a month, they get people off the vastly overcrowded tubes more than anything else. I've ridden them in the rain, wearing clothes I'd normally walk/bus/tube in. In true downpours I bus it. Cabs are expensive and often not very fast.

The tube just means getting far to up close and personal with people whilst being broiled alive these days

 

[brokenbetty]

Are the Boris Bikes as popular in the pissing down rain?

I've got an image in my mind's eye of thousands of blue and black bikes fastened into their ports and peds scurrying past them to hail a cab.

Seem to be even more popular. There's only so many taxis and a bike beats shanks pony.