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I test rode one of Edinburgh's new Voi electric hire bikes - and they're the business
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Edinburgh Cycle Hire Scheme
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Posted 3 days ago #
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App currently seems to show NO bikes
All on hire?
All being maintained?
Problem with app??
Posted 1 day ago # -
I see three, but I also saw someone on Bluesky mentioning seeing balaclava bams firing about them on Princes St - so potentially they’ve pulled them if they’ve already been ‘figured out’.
Posted 1 day ago # -
Voi were contracting locally in other locations for battery swap, & regulation of bike supply at hire points
As yet no clear detail on who might be contractor on this. Some places work with local cycle logistics operators, which could be a good fit
On that basis I note that Zedify has risen from ashes in Glasgow & Edinburgh with a few lessons learned. However this may initially be small electric vans rather then cargo bikes with main traffic from local logistics rather then the big names, who prefer to control the whole chain from warehouse to customer, whilst fiercely holding prices down, and thus paying terrible rates per drop for the staff on the 'final mile' often well below £1 per item, so that at least 100 deliveries per shift are needed to make a decent daily income
Still a lack of sensible cycle parking stands to match those used across much of Europe, without a parking 'rack' the prop/centre stands are too easily knocked over & don't deliver neatly parked bikes, using weight of bike to hold it upright & in orderly style
Posted 20 hours ago # -
Currently 6 for hire, inc one in Inch.
Earlier there were 2 there (not in same street).
Posted 12 hours ago # -
I do hope the council specified some sort of minimum availability in their contract with VOI so that it can be ended early if consistently not fulfilled. There also needs to be a better way of reporting dead bikes than trying to tell the chat robot on the app, which doesn't seem to understand. With the JustEat bikes you could send a tweet to the operators with the name of the bike and the location and report via the app.
Posted 8 hours ago # -
Currently one available ‘in the zone’ and one still in the Inch…
Posted 5 hours ago # -
Currently 10 available ‘in the zone’ and none in the Inch.
Posted 3 hours ago # -
Emailed the Voi contacts I have but no answers yet. A few possibilities;
- Software updates needed to deal with riding out of zone meant pulling bikes in for maintenance (it has been observed by Harry Williams and others that riding out of zone doesn’t currently result in bike stopping / go-slow)
- Reactive to initial interest from nutters - pull them in over the weekend and put them out again ready for the working week?
Posted 3 hours ago #
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