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Unlocking AirDonkey bike (still from promotional video)

Would you rent out your bike? Danish firm looking to raise funds for Uber-style cycle hire business (+ video)

AirDonkey is a platform to share your bike and earn money from it

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Boris Bikes management – and redesign – contract up for tender

Whoever takes over from Serco will get to develop the "next generation" of Santander Cycles

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New bike docking station in Belfast vandalised just two days after being installed

City 'isn't ready' for bike hire scheme thanks to poor infrastructure say fearful riders

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Brighton cycle lane (CC BY 2.0 by Les Chatfield:Flickr)

Brighton close to getting cycle hire scheme – but are cost-benefit figures ludicrously optimistic?

Council awaits £1m funding decision this week based on hopeful reports of benefits

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Bath bike hire bikes

Oxford and Bath relaunch their cycle hire schemes as they find new operators

Bikes by the hour back on the streets in Oxford and Bath after new operators are found to run schemes

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US bike hire schemes linked with greater risk of head injury – or are they?

Study claims US cities with share programs see greater proportion of head injuries among all bike-related injuries - but the number of head injures went down

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New sharing app Spinlister lets you hire out & rent bikes

Need a good bike in a strange town?

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Live, work or study in Lambeth? Try cycling in the city for 4 weeks for just £10

Lambeth Council and LCC launch 'Try Before You Bike' cycle trial scheme

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Bike hire bikes (pic by jezzzer)

Doctors in Boston ‘prescribe’ very low cost bike hire for patients

$5 annual bike hire offered like food banks to improve health of those on low incomes

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Dutch-style bike hire scheme now at more than 40 railway stations in England (+ video)

Abellio, overseas arm of Netherlands' national rail operator, plans more openings

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