Boris Bikes for casual users

[thomas]

I found on Friday when my usual start station at Devonshire Row was empty, the next one was disconnected, the third was empty although a bike rolled in as I was about to set off to my fourth, and on the return leg the station was full with a chap patiently waiting for me to stop pfaffing so he could dock

I suspect this is going to throw the whole thing out of kilter, the casual users will be just that, taking bikes now and then to do this and that journey, a lot of the stations I've used are small ones with only 12 bikes ish so easily cleared out and/or filled up

I reckon they should have kept it all members only - last thing we need is gangs of Spanish kids with matching backpacks emptying whole stations then causing chaos going round and round seven dials

Nah! Empty docking stations is a good thing! The more that they are used, the more likely that the system will be upgraded...and then there will be more bikes at each docking station, etc. Possibly

 

[Tynan]

I think they've already put such a huge investment in that further spending seems unlikely

I've had three excellent rides today already, putting the seat up really high changes the ride hugely, I had them going at a fair old clip today with less effort than previously, something to do with the frame being to small for a man of my heroic proportions I suspect