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Cycle hire schemes

January 2024

  • Forest is growing its share of the London ebike market and has green credentials.

    From HumanForest to BrewDog: five firms to watch in a time of turbulence

    As AI and tech make their presence felt, new companies are emerging and older ones are adapting

June 2023

  • Rental bikes abandoned in awkward places in the street

    Britain behaving badly
    ‘What sprocket left that bike there?’ My life as a pedestrian in badly behaved Britain

    I’m all for cycle hire schemes, but nothing brings out the grumpy old man in me like e-bikes strewn across the pavement

April 2023

  • Dockless hire bikes lie in a pile on a pavement in central London, where authorities have been trying to find solutions to the problem.

    Cycle hire: how poor parking put a spoke in the wheel of city schemes

    The boom in e-bike rental schemes may be good for the planet, but dumped bikes have become a dangerous urban blight

October 2022

  • Torsten Bell

    Hidden gems from the world of research
    We may tut as e-scooters whizz by, but they aren’t the menace we should fear

    Torsten Bell
    Traffic accidents have indeed risen with the craze, but only in cities that already badly serve cyclists

June 2022

  • Andy Beckett

    A bike, a skateboard or the Elizabeth line? It depends where you want society to go

    Andy Beckett
    Though people have new ways to travel singly, it is shared services that weld us together, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

May 2022

  • Cyclists during morning rush hour in London

    Reform cycle to work scheme so it can be used by lower-paid, Sunak urged

    Business and cycling groups say bike-buying scheme is often out of reach to those who need it most

November 2021

  • Bee bikes in docking stations at the University of Salford

    Andy Burnham: don’t throw Manchester hire bikes in the canal

    Mayor pleads with residents not to treat new Bee Bikes like the failed Mobike scheme

June 2020

  • Buzzbike rider

    'The Netflix of bikes': will a bicycle rental scheme catch on?

    Buzzbike hopes to tempt workers returning to the office as lockdown eases to try out its scheme

May 2020

  • Cycling commuters in London

    Encourage cycling and walking after lockdown, UK mayors told

    Boris Johnson uses call with regional leaders to stress importance of keeping cars out of city centres

January 2020

  • Alex Hern

    Electric scooters can help cities move beyond cars v pedestrians

    Alex Hern
    New laws to legalise e-scooters should be about safety, not horsepower, says Alex Hern, UK technology editor for the Guardian

July 2019

  • A bike-fishing trip near King’s Cross

    Cycle hire firms urged to help clear dumped bikes from canals

    Trust says it is recovering 100 bikes a year – docked, dockless, even electric – in London alone

May 2019

  • wheel of a Jump bike

    Uber to launch Jump bike hire scheme in Islington borough

  • Bird dockless electric scooters next to a bike-sharing docking station in Washington DC

    The Upside weekly report
    Why cities could hold the key to many of the world's problems

February 2019

  • Abandoned Mobike bike at the Aylesbury estate, London

    Life cycle: is it the end for Britain's dockless bike schemes?

    Three major cycle-sharing companies have pulled out of Britain’s cities in just over a year. Can the schemes ever be sustainable?

January 2019

  • Ofo’s dockless sharing bicycles on a pavement in Islington, London in August 2018.

    Ofo cycle hire firm pulls out of London

    At its peak the Chinese bike-sharing startup had 6,000 bikes in several English cities

December 2018

  • Obo's 'dockless' sharing bikes

    Consumer champions
    Why isn't Ofo interested in its bike abandoned in my road?

    It is cluttering up my garage and I can’t find any way to return one of its ‘yellow plague’ bikes

November 2018

  • Lime electric bicycles in Sydney, Australia

    Electric bike-sharing company Lime launches in UK

    Californian firm backed by Uber will put 50 e-bikes on to streets of Milton Keynes

August 2018

  • Dara Khosrowshahi (left), Uber CEO, presenting his firm’s Jump e-bikes in June in Berlin – the first European city where the service will be operate.

    Uber to diversify into electric bikes and scooters to drive growth

    Move may cost in short term but boost longer-term user engagement, CEO says
  • The dockless revolution has spread to a number of UK cities.

    Mobike no more: dockless bikes could soon be gone from UK streets

    Britain has shocked global firms with the amount of vandalism and theft of public hire bikes
  • Mobike

    Investors swoon over Mobike, but can the cycle-hire firm conquer the west?

    Chinese company’s raw numbers are impressive but theft, vandalism and wary city chiefs could stand in its way
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