Can you just not connect it to wifi?

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Realised this morning that my rear hub which i’ve been commuting on for a decade has done about 40,000km now. Bearings still as smooth as butter. If. Find this super satisfying.

My watch says i average about 11km per day, so similar. Thats mainly personal commute, but also e-cargo bike with the kid. I use hire bikes to get to shoots which are often further out in west london and i want to arrive less sweaty

Thanks for the dismissal. Time for me to get back out on the urban arrow i think and forget bluesky for a bit.

Yep, Lambeth. Welcomed locally

Yeah i live down in Kennington so its ok for docking stations. Are forest generally better south or are they more scarce than lime?

TBH I’m reticent to air any opinions on bikes on cycling threads anymore. As i don’t have any verifiable data to share…

Amazing thank you.🙏 i wish current taxi drivers had to do the knowledge by bicycle. Maybe’s they’d be a bit kinder on the road.

But there no data to prove it, so its irrelevant. And if the incidents had gone badly they would have been recorded as a collision with a car.

This year i’ve had more bike incidents where a pedestrian has nearly had me knocked under the wheels of a bus because they were on their phone, and incidents with other riders knocking me into the path of traffic by undertaking dangerously than i have had vehicle incidents.

Already discussing the fact that my comment was anecdotal… I’m basically in agreement, but can’t deny what I see. Sorry if this has been misunderstood.

I wasn’t arguing. I’ll chime out now since i’m not on blue sky for who’s the rightest battles. No-one seems to be interested in addressing the actual content of the comment. I wrote. They seem to be more interested in what it might infer. 🤷‍♂️I linked out discussion to show Will that we were

I agree. We should be championing the London based firm over Lime. I do however ride past their south london Forest depot every day and see how they treat and maintain the bikes. I usually use the TFL electric ones.

Ugh, the “your opinion is invalid if you can’t show me verified data” crowd are infuriating. Some of the world’s most important ever discoveries started as hunches or observations that had no relevant data.

Trying to figure out where in Kennington this is

Do you ride in London Will?

What? At what point does it look like my comment isn’t an opinion? This is bizarre

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Does nobody else think forest and lime bikes are too heavy? Nobody else think they’re too quick for riders with low experience? Surely you’ve witnessed incidents riding about?

But what I’m seeing is definitely more than you wouldn’t expect given increasing rider numbers. I’m attributing that to bike design which is geared towards profit not rider safety.

The data shows that it looks like there’s an increase of solo accidents. This reflects what i’ve seen. I only missed the point if you assume all of the accidents were to do with cars or lack of infra. None of them were. Obviously an increase in rider numbers is going to increase rider accidents

I guess we have differing points, either that or people are projecting some other intention from my comment

While jumping the same set of lights from different directions.

These are mainly not collisions with vehicles. These are mainly accidents which are isolated and caused by the bikes design and inexperienced riders. People wiping out because they couldn’t stop properly, colliding with other cyclists on CS routes due to impatience, colliding with other lime riders

I get that some of the cycling community see my comment as negative, but at no point do i mention we shouldn’t do any of the things you list. I literally live and breathe cycling in London every day. And i can’t ignore what i see.

Lime and forests main objective is profit, not rider safety. And i don’t think the route to more riders should allow companies to palm off all responsibility to the riders if there are aspects of their business models which lets say “encourage” riskier rider behaviour …

Totally agree. And i’m not arguing against any of those things as all of them have made a massive improvement from when i first started riding to school in London in the 80s. I’m just saying we can look at both, the “but cars” approach from some commenters is clearly true, but often divisive.

Of course more journeys is going to equal more accidents, but if the accidents per journey increases above its normal trajectory, then it needs to be looked at.

This. Lime’s primary responsibility is not rider safety, its to make profit. They are heavily built for durability not safety, they are powerful so that riders choose them over other schemes -less hard work-.they can be parked/ discarded almost anywhere for convenience