Just saw some in my street, Roseburn Street.
Saw the ones in Cramond yesterday, with an old hand user explaining them to newbies. Really good to have them for a pootle along the promenade.
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Edinburgh Cycle Hire Scheme
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In terms of areas, Haymarket, West End and New Town are still particularly lacking in coverage - quite long walks to all the offices within.
Thinking more in corridors there is also nowhere directly on Lothian Rd (Usher Hall / Festival Sq obvious), Cowgate/Grassmarket or Bridges/Clerk St
I guess what I'm saying is that at the moment there seems to be lots of origins and not that many destinations.
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@Klaxon - Festival Square would be my destination if I was using one for commuting. It's a fairly awful commute there of course.
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Second dock added at WGH and new one at Broughton LIDL
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@Klaxon - actually Roseburn Street is a destination, the destination being Murrayfield Stadium.
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+ Queensferry Road (Orchard Road)
+ West Newington Place
+ West CrosscausewayPosted 5 years ago # -
If anyone hasn't given them a shot yet, there will be free hires from the 5th-11th of May (I imagine there this will be tied in with some publicity about the new docks) https://twitter.com/EdUniTransport/status/1123156446030565376
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Sooo, race up Kaimes Road?
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It will be interesting to see how the free trial works out - if it is popular, it will presumably be quite difficult to get hold of a bike (unless they are increasing the size of the fleet in anticipation?), which may be frustrating, especially for those who have already paid and are used to day-to-day availability of bikes from nearby hire points.
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It will be interesting to see how the free trial works out
Hope somebody sends me a telegram to let me know. I am technologically disenfranchised.
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I'll lend you a smart phone see if it converts you to magic of the 21st century.
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Where 'magic' means access to bus timetables?
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If anyone is interested in the details from the offer the poster says you need to visit: https://edinburghcyclehire.com/buy/free-week
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@Klaxon - Festival Square would be my destination if I was using one for commuting. It's a fairly awful commute there of course.
I'm similar. The EICC dock is pretty convenient for work, but until the Lothian Road/Morrison Street/Princes Street triangle is made much more pleasant for cycling I'd be better served with a hire station outside the old Fraser's store, from which I'd walk the last 500m to work.
Rather tellingly, I'd rather walk than cycle over the "mixed use" bridge between Rutland Square and Exchange Crescent.
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I’ve issued a challenge to each of the local parties to see how many of their councillors they can get out on a hire bike during the free-trial week.
Other than physical ability reasons there should be no excuses: there is no charge and there is a hire point at the City Chambers.
Let them experience the city on two wheels for themselves.
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Encountered my first hire bike fail this evening (of the mechanical kind). Hit the brakes on St Mary's St and there was a judder, and the rear wheel locked up completely. I was doing about 20 on wet cobbles at the time so this made things briefly very exciting for me, a couple of pedestrians and an unlucky fella getting out of his car. No harm done. Had to leave it in a safe spot and phone it in.
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8176 trips in April - easily a record!
Portobello was the most popular dock with just over 700 trips starting or ending there with Newkirkgate, Bristo Square, Meadows East and Victoria Quay all getting over 600.
Will be interesting to see how usage changes as we approach summer and student usage dwindles at the UofE sites.
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Saw a very dead hire bike on the Wst Granton Access path this morning, were I betting man I'd say it had been dropped from the overpass, the frame was pretty bent, the fork was in bits and some one had scored out the bikes name with a marker...
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@Steveo, I wonder if it was a vendetta against a person's name rather than an attack on the bikes.
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Hired a bike this morning to get me home after dropping my bike in for a wheel rebuild at Harts Cyclery. My first hire!
The first one I hired (ironically, given the purpose of the bike works that I had just put my bike in for) had a buckled front wheel so I phoned them up and got the hire cancelled and picked a different bike.
I'm not very fit, this was mainly a flat route (Corstophine to Murrayfield) and yikes it was hard work. I made it harder by having the saddle a bit low, but I got to my destination very pink. Phew. At least I was in time to pick my son up from preschool.
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@LivD
They're hard work compared to normal bike are they not? Anything over a pootle seems to require penal labour.
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Free hires link is now up
https://edinburghcyclehire.com/buy/free-week
Starts tomorrow (Sunday) and runs to next Saturday
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I don't suppose anyone knows how (or if it is even possible) to remove an entered but yet to be activated code from an account other than by using it? I entered a 24 hour code from the commuter challenge earlier this year, but it is now blocking me from making use of a code for the free week pass.
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I'm in the same boat. I have an unused all day hire that must be blocking me. It's hard to tell what's going on because the data entry box for your phone number sits over a block of text and makes it unreadable.
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I'd suggest just redeeming it today and enjoy the week once it runs out. If you've not found reason to activate it in the four months since you were given it...
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They removed my local dock making the bikes a bus ride away. Then I smashed my ribs and all thought of bikes went out the door for 10 weeks. :(
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@Klaxon fair point, although similar reasoning means that I may just leave it and not bother with the free week.
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@Trixie yikes. Are you ok?
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I'm mostly all grand now, ta. Was pretty grim at the time tho. I'm still not confident about getting on and off my hybrid so I'm back on the leccy step-through for now. It wasn't cycling related, I hasten to add. Health and safety notice - shower/bath mats are ugly but they are essential!
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