Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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I like the idea of "new singings Nairo Quintana and Nacer Bouhanni" - presumably one of their first numbers will be 'I like to ride my bicycle'?
Surprised Downing and so didn't spot the pothole in time, with it being clearly marked out by those orange-topped bollards.
According to BBC South Today YoBikes are getting the hell out of Southampton, vandalism and theft. Reading's Readibikes just disappeared one day, the drunken people waiting for their kebabs are no longer able to while away the minutes by ringing the bells.
Berylbikes were also mentioned, Bournmouth and Poole, anyone know how that is going?
Berylbikes were deployed within green-painted parking areas in my bit of north London less than a month ago. They have all but disappeared.
We have had a load of bright red Uber eBikes pop up here over the last month or so, though. My theory is that they get used as one-way post-alcohol transport from city to suburbs, then don't get redistributed back to where they're needed.
Freebike is another recent entrant, although apparently those are geofenced so they can't stray too far. Presumably the logistics and distribution is even more important for an e-bike sharing scheme, as they also need to be re-charged periodically.
There's an article in The Daily Echo on YoBike - https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/17799017.yobikes-pulled-southampton/
Comment underneath from their operations director Dave Munday:
They seem to be being used. Plenty around and being used by the look of it. Not tried one myself yet, but one was in my nextdoor neighbours
I have just caught the end of an item on Quests Made by Destruction, which seemed to suggest they can recycle carbon fibre bicycles and with a bit of jiggery pokery turn it into parts for race cars. As I say, I only caught the end, and I cannot seem to view it on QuestOD.