Boris Bike spotted in ED!

[d803cn]

I saw someone riding a Boris bike along the rye on Saturday. They were slightly off the beaten track because the nearest docking station is in Elephant.

[Grotty]

Are we ever going to get Boris bikes?

[StraferJack]

No - we're not. Too far out to be financialy or logistically viable

And they are too uncomfortable to be cycling teh 4-6 miles most people would be using them for

[Jeremy]

What Jack said.

[njc97]

Jack - paris network comes out as far as this. But yeah, I doubt we will get them here, logistics are too complicated.

[StraferJack]

I'll tell you one thing for sure. No incentive in the world is big enough to see me use one of those bikes on Dog Kennel Hill

[Loz]

You get fit in a matter of days. And if not, there's a good A&E close by for when the body gives in.

[spanglysteve]

I love the Boris bikes, but why is the gearing so bad?

Loz Wrote:

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> You get fit in a matter of days. And if not,

> there's a good A&E close by for when the body

> gives in.

[Earl Aelfheah]

They may one day extend to Camberwell green, but I can't see then making it as far as ED.

[Applespider]

Agree it will be a long time... we'll probably have our cycle superhighway before then and that's not scheduled til 2015.

I think they've set the gearing so that the very unfit have a chance to use them. I can't imagine using them in anything other than 3rd and it feels v low compared to my regular one.

Apparently there have been a few nicked and spotted in other places outside the zone like Croydon etc

[Freddy1929]

Will not be long until we see photos on You Tube of Boris Bikes in the most unusual places..............................

great wall of China etc.....

[PeckhamRose]

I saw a photoshopped one (obviously, at least I hope 'obviously'!) of one crossing the San Francisco Gate Bridge. Can't find it now. Sorry.

[Salsaboy]

I actually saw one in West Wickham (other side of Bromley)last week.

The guy riding it looked knackered.

[PN33]

ha, my housemates went out in Shoreditch and after a few beers stumbled across a Boris Bike stand. Their hazy, blurry eyes convinced them that the terms and conditions were ?1 hire for 24 hours use!!! I woke up in our East Dulwich house to find 2 Boris Bikes in the corridor, and 2 smarmy housemates, convinced they'd found 'the secret' to cheap transport in London. In the 23rd hour they returned the bikes to Elephant & Castle. 3 weeks later, got their bank statements, ?52 EACH!