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Velib like bicycle rental kiosks are being constructed in Dublin

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  • #452
    gar32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭gar32


    I got in the 1600's so that means at least 400 + cards alread gone out


  • #453
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Bob, surely you're aware that humour in this forum usually involves innuendo about lube and greasing. That's just gone about 18 miles overhead.


  • #454
    DrGroove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭DrGroove


    First time ever - I've seen Django Rheinheart used for a visual joke.

    Every day - something new on the Boards that for sure


  • #455
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,128 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    DrGroove wrote: »
    First time ever - I've seen Django Rheinheart used for a visual joke.
    I was actually expecting something along these lines:
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    My beer blog | Bluesky | My other beer blog



  • #456
    Poncherello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Poncherello


    Having issues signing up for the subscription anyone else having probs or did you all sign up 12 months ago !!
    and yes my CC has some credit on it !


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  • #457
    -Chris-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,035 ✭✭✭✭-Chris-


    Anyone having issues so far normally had them with the Zip/Post code.

    Enter "0" and see what happens.


  • #458
    Doctor Bob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭Doctor Bob


    (Missed this first time around!)
    el tonto wrote: »
    Bob, surely you're aware that humour in this forum usually involves innuendo about lube and greasing. That's just gone about 18 miles overhead.

    I considered using this image - cycling-related after all! - but I thought it might be a bit too obscure.

    django-in-tripletts.jpg

    From here on, innuendo and double entendres it is! Now if you'll excuse me, my aunt just texted to say she's having issues with a flange.


  • #459
    mmclo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭mmclo


    bikes are set up at the city hall station


  • #460
    petethedrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    First big test is will they survive the weekend. I'm so nervous for them.


  • #461
    lukester
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,901 ✭✭✭lukester


    petethedrummer wrote: »
    I'm so nervous for them.

    I'm clutching a hankie and chewing on a knuckle.


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  • #462
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,122 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    cable842 wrote: »
    in copenhagen is free to take a bike and then bring it back to another station

    Their bike rental system would be handy if you can find a bike, but that is almost impossible, making it useless.

    The city have just put out a tender for a new system.


  • #463
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    By the way, vandalising velibs yourself just to say "I told you so" is cheating.


  • #464
    alentejo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭alentejo


    It might be worth the extra investment, but consideration should be given to having CCTV discreetly at each location.


  • #465
    Bunnyhopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Bunnyhopper


    I think a lot of the Decaux fancypants advertising panels that they put up have CCTV watching them (I may just have imagined that, of course), so they really should have the same on the bike stands.


  • #466
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,094 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Just ordered mine, should have done so ages ago. They say 14 days, is it likely to take that long, like to give one of them a spin next weekend.


  • #467
    -Chris-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,035 ✭✭✭✭-Chris-


    OK, so they should be operational today - who's going to post the first pic of actually using one?


  • #468
    Dandelion6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭Dandelion6


    Lethal_Bullet wrote: »
    Just ordered mine, should have done so ages ago. They say 14 days, is it likely to take that long

    I received my card within 48 hours. That was just before the publicity blitz last week though.


  • #469
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,094 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Dandelion6 wrote: »
    I received my card within 48 hours. That was just before the publicity blitz last week though.

    Yeah, hopefully we got in before the big rush that will come today when they are seen in use around town. Fingers crossed.


  • #470
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,122 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    -Chris- wrote: »
    OK, so they should be operational today - who's going to post the first pic of actually using one?

    As I posted over in the commuting and transport thread...

    Cycled around (on my own bike) there sometime between 12 and after 1pm to see if many of them were being used.

    O'Connell Street and Dame Street were near empty while ones more off the beat and track, like long side TCD were more full. Any time I stopped at any there seem to people taking bikes out and also quite a lot of interest from passers by.

    After a late breakfast, I might go out and try one, even if they are just like in Paris.

    Here's some photos, will add more later, I'm sure... http://www.flickr.com/photos/ciangin...7622230673547/


  • #471
    Gavin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,660 ✭✭✭Gavin


    Got up this morning and went over to the local one and had a whirl. I think they are deadly. The bikes themsleves are good quality, roll very well. The lock is weak but enough for quick stops. Station interface seems fairly intuitive.

    The lights are on all the time and are bright enough that I could see the front light clearly from around 100m away in broad daylight. Saw several people using them so far and was asked about them as I was pedalling around. Gears work fine. Brakes are slow, probably to avoid people jamming on them and stopping too quickly, and maybe encourage slower cycling. Still skidded, oops.

    Great fun they are.

    3915077569_78b3544d4f.jpg

    Should have arranged a boardsie circuit of town on em


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  • #472
    Barname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Barname


    BeerNut wrote: »
    1208. Anyone with three digits out there?

    666


  • #473
    victorcarrera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭victorcarrera


    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/blazing-saddles--bike-scheme-gets-off-to-flying-start-under-blue-skies-1885640.html


  • #474
    fenris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,075 ✭✭✭fenris


    There is a free iphone app that has a map and shows the amount of bikes and spaces in each station, oddly enouh it is called "Dublin Bikes"

    Map bit works but there is no info yet on bikes or spaces, if it works properly it could be useful and not just an add for the developer!


  • #475
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,988 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Wheels start turning as city gets saddled up
    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0914/1224254474574.html

    Bike scheme and city sun shake off cycling blues
    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0914/1224254474549.html


  • #476
    DualFrontDiscs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭DualFrontDiscs


    I had a go this morning. I don't have a card yet, so had to go with the 3 day ticket.

    Some thoughts:

    1. The nearest station to me isn't credit card enabled, so I needed to go to a different one. Only 14 of the 40 are credit card enabled. It won't affect card holders obviously, but it will be an inconvenience for casual users.

    2. The screen's not touch screen. Very strange. Perhaps it's a anti-vandalism measure, though I've seen touch screens on another scheme (Vienna).

    3. The credit card authorisation is ponderously slow. At least a few minutes. If even a few people decide to go to a credit card enabled station at lunchtime, there'll be a long queue very quickly.

    And on to the bike.

    Lovely to ride, nice upright position. Perfect for a spin in town. Brakes are a bit soft, though as someone else mentioned, probably intentional to stop 'over the handlebars' incidents.

    I wish everyone involved the best of luck with it. And the first little skanger caught trashing one should made an example of.

    DFD.


  • #477
    Caroline_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Caroline_ie


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    Wheels start turning as city gets saddled up
    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0914/1224254474574.html

    Bike scheme and city sun shake off cycling blues
    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0914/1224254474549.html

    Oohhh a helmet debates as the 1st line.... controversial.

    Ray Darcy was talking about it this morning and was not impressed. His comment was 'Dublin is not safe to cycle.' and also attempted to cut the lock on air... morrons.

    We will hear more about it all


  • #478
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,988 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Caroline_ie wrote: »
    Oohhh a helmet debates as the 1st line.... controversial.

    Ray Darcy was talking about it this morning and was not impressed. His comment was 'Dublin is not safe to cycle.' and also attempted to cut the lock on air... morrons.

    We will hear more about it all
    When I hear Ray D'arcy talking about cycling, all he talks about is near misses. I think he needs training; there is something wrong with the way he cycles.


  • #479
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,122 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    See here: Ray Darcy the anti-cycling cyclist with a voice?


  • #480
    Jip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭Jip


    Just back from a lunch time walk, saw one or two people on them. Walked by the stations at Merrion Square and the one just off Baggot Street just beside the Bank of Ireland, there was only one station empty in each of them with some foreign chaps trying unsuccessfully to get a bike from the Baggot Street station, I think the thought you could just rent one then and there without registration etc.


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  • #481
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,894 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    Caroline_ie wrote: »
    Oohhh a helmet debates as the 1st line.... controversial.

    Ray Darcy was talking about it this morning and was not impressed. His comment was 'Dublin is not safe to cycle.' and also attempted to cut the lock on air... morrons.

    We will hear more about it all

    Heard Darcy this morming alright, I usually have time for him but he often does these 'Do you not just think..' interviews were he doesn't listen to whats said, just keeps whinging and moaning randomly.

    He seems really against the scheme, the guy from the council was a bit shocked I think. 'Do you not just think this money would have been better spend upgrading the cities infrastructure for cycling instead' Not realising that JC Decaux are doing the funding now. 'Do you think people will get injured' Darcy was giving him a hard time on everything he said. eg The guy said the stations were in busy areas, Darcy 'not the one I went too!' Hah!.

    He caught himself out though trying to let on the guy from the council wasn't a cyclist Darcy 'Do you cycle yourself?' Yep 'Really? not every day though???' Yes, Ray, every day of course. [You, tosser]

    (My added finishing line)

    Darcy finished off with something along the lines of 'Well I hope it goes well and we aren't all talking about the massive vandalism, cost and about someone who gets killed for trying these bikes when they don't know what they are doing'!

    Roughly translated as, I really hope it all goes wrong and even if it doesn't we'll be on air saying it did.


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