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Furk Barclays Bike Docking Station


Alan Dale

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Best location would be near the station I would expect.


Can you take the bike home over night and bring it back to the station in the morning, otherwise I can?t see much reason using it unless you were going to ride all the way into London?


I wonder if the scheme will be successful in residential areas.

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Back in 2008 all GLA Mayoral candidates promised bike hire schemes.


The Barclays Boris bike hire scheme hasn't yet been completed in zone 1 and various teething problems. So it will be some time before zone 1 is completed before it gets rolled out further.


Sooner this happens the better but lets not get excited soon.

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The Barclay/Boris bike is all well and good on flat ground, but they are very heavy & almost agricultural to ride


I reckon if you're serious about commuting/cycling then get yourself & your employer to get onto this scheme & save up to 50% on a bike


http://www.bike2workscheme.co.uk/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=bike%2Bto%2Bwork%2Bscheme&utm_campaign=Bike%2B2%2BWork%2BScheme


If you want to go by bike/train/bus, then buy a Brompton Bike

( it only takes about 20 seconds to fold one down )


I did it years ago & bloomin' love it




W**F

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I ride a lot, on and off road, for pleasure, racing and commuting and the couple of times I've been on a Ken Bike I've loved it. Up hill, down hill all I wanted to do was smile! They are weighty and the gearing is too high for me but they are a blast to ride anywhere!


Also beware of HMRC rule tightening on bike to work schemes. They may not be as good as they were a few months ago.


New tax rules, but don't let it put you off cycling!

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Oh, how appalling ( but I'll look anyway ) wrote woof!



I thought it had been done quite professionally, almost as if it belonged there.


I'm sure it expresses a view which many patrons of that bank feel,


when they read on their statements the costs of the banks extortionate charges.


Bar studs!

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