Velib like bicycle rental kiosks are being constructed in Dublin

cable842 wrote: »

I think there should be a guy or girl standing there.

And the cost of all those people? that wouldn't be free, or remotely cheap....

you walk over sign your name to it take the bike cycle it into town or wherever you want they drop it off the bike to another vendor simple as that.

You more or less do this with the unattended system

if you damage it you have to pay simple as that they have your address and phone number. But not debited no way thats a hefty fine on your credit card.

I don't understand the difference here, its only debited from your credit card if you damage/loose it. They would have to hire debt collectors if they relied on retrieving the money just having people's address/phone number, which would be obviously far messier.

They got the bikes for free with this bill boards for bikes deal.

They Should give them out for free.

Simple as that.

And they pretty much do give them out for free. The charges in place arn't to make money, they are to ensure reasonable care is taken and good service for users.

cable842 wrote: »

the bikes should be free just like the are in copenhagen. simple as that

typical irish always having to pay.

when the rest of europe is laughing at us paying for them.

Not in Paris they're not. The most militant, strike-prone people in the EU don't seem to have a problem with paying, as was already pointed out to you last week.

petethedrummer wrote: »

The Paris scheme seems to have an annual subscription of €29.

http://www.en.velib.paris.fr/abonnements_tarifs/abonnement_1_an

cable842 wrote: »

I was in copenhagen and the bikes were amazin to use. they werent the crappy bikes they are giving us.

the were slim line fast really cool bikes.

Is this your idea of cool?

petethedrummer wrote: »

would you pay to ride this?

Can we start an online petition to have aerobars fitted to the bikes?

cable842 wrote: »

would you like your credit card debited 150 euro cause some guy came over to you on the street knocked you off the bike and started damaging your bike.

To be honest i'd be far more worried about him damaging me than the bike.....

I cycle in town a lot. on the north side people dont mind you cycling at all.

Now on the south side of the liffey cobble stones and all. I have nearly been punched pushed off the bike Ive had people screaming at me and Im just cycling by them on the road.

its mad no lie this has happened. but never had one problem on the southside cycling at all.

Huh? on the north side people don't mind you cycling, on the south side you've nearly been pushed off. But you've never had a problem on the southside?

point being I think debit is a bad system. it can get people into debit with one small incident

So you'd rather they would have to put up a 150euro bond to use the system? i think that would be a much worse idea.....

I think the cable guy might be onto something here. We should band together and teach those southside ruffians a thing or two. I mean really, with their so called 'pedestrian' cobbled area. They're cobbled for a reason peds !! It's so as you can't walk on them! Jaysus. Morons.

Ste.phen wrote: »

...moving them between stations when some fill up (I saw a truck this morning doing just that)

Thats interesting. I've noticed that the stations on greek street and bolton street are filling up completely in the late evenings. I guess the only real solution to this is to add more stands at those stations.

I wonder how the contract between the city council and JCDecaux works for expanding the scheme if demand is there.

jimogr wrote: »

Thats interesting. I've noticed that the stations on greek street and bolton street are filling up completely in the late evenings. I guess the only real solution to this is to add more stands at those stations.

Been caught my this as well, cycled to Smithfield on Wednesday evening but no space available, ditto Bolton St, then went to Greek St and lucked out as it was full but someone was taking one out just as I arrived.
It was a day when traffic would have been very bad because of the DB/Luas crash so I reasoned that the vans weren't able to move the bikes, but it sounds from talking to a few people that the situation isn't much different any evening at these stands.
Also no bikes at all in Earlsfort Terrace last evening at 6.30PM.

Still I guess some teething problems are to be expected.

its hard for the full/empty bike racks at commuter time to be avoided, from random poking around smithfield seems to be empty every morning pretty much as people come in, with that happening in reverse in the evening. And its the one time of day they can't really re-balance the bikes easily

Lumen wrote: »

Rear-mounted baskets, with seatstay-mounted fairings.

I think the front-mounted basket is a good idea - you can keep an eye on your bag. Although I'd still wrap the lock around it or loop the straps over the handlebars. Those open baskets are going to look fairly tempting to thieves...

Applied for my card on Monday and still no sign of it. Can't wait! I live near the Barge so I can get a bike at Portobello bridge or Leeson St bridge and cycle to Merrion Sq. The roads are fairly decent for my journey so I'm lucky. I work near Pearse St flats but there's no bike stands there (I wonder why...) the next one is on the northside of James Joyce bridge. Still gets me most of the way to work though.

Hopefully the scheme proves popular, despite RTE Radio talking it down on the first day ('the bikes are more girls' bikes' - ffs. They're free and get me to work, who needs a crossbar?? Not like I need to compensate for anything :-).

They've learned a lot from Paris, and they seem to have addressed the problems they had there (mainly bikes being nicked because you couldn't be sure they were locked properly. The ones here give a beep when locked correctly).

Best of luck to 'em, hopefully it'll cause people to pressure their councillors to make the city more bike-friendly!!

BostonB wrote: »

How does the cable lock thingy work.

Favorite commuter routes will always be unbalanced in one direction. You'll just have to get there early.

I was talking to a woman manning the bike stands on the first day (showing people how to use them) and she said you wrap the cable around something and put the end where the bike stand connector would normally go (the other end is permanently attached to the bike), then a key pops out. I think.

Floodzie wrote: »

...she said you wrap the cable around something and put the end where the bike stand connector would normally go (the other end is permanently attached to the bike), then a key pops out. I think.

Yeah thats it - a real nifty system.

I was locking one of them on the first day outside a shop, and a taxi driver came over to give out about all the business he would be losing because of the bikes... Real nasty about it...

cable842 wrote: »

but if guy damages the bike your cycling there a big debit on your credit card.

what happens if you rent a bike, leave it back to a stand and walk away only for someone else to come along 10 minutes later with a hammer and bash the bike to bits?