I am getting very annoyed with littering.

[Winot]

Why bother taking it somewhere when you can dump it in the street!

Lambeth collect and require you to leave in the street.

 

[hash tag]

Two more classic examples yesterday. Worse than littering because they are trip hazards, because you can't get a wheelchair or pushchair past them and difficult to negotiate for an able bodied person yet alone someone who needs walking sticks or crutches.

 

[StoneRoad]

hash tag - where's the steam roller / dumpster when you need them ?

alternatively is there anyway of investigating who had them last ...
[finding these scattered around the RVI / Student areas is not uncommon, sometimes the safety gear is actually still with said bike]

 

[gentlegreen]

I always wonder how that's possible given they're locked and tracked and tied to your bank card...
There was a scooter tucked under a bridge near me which I suspect must have been hotwired in some way...
Perhaps people start stealing them and give up or are just taking the piss ..

 

[hash tag]

I saw a leccy hire bike the other day where the battery had been ripped out. I couldn't do a 10 minute trot to work without passing at least half a dozen of the things. To think, the council has now designated parking areas for them. It's not working and I doubt it will ever worker.

 

[hash tag]

@hash tag - where's the steam roller / dumpster when you need them ?

Its not the bikes fault, it's that of the selfish, thoughtless fuckwits who just dump them anywhere

 

[agricola]

I always wonder how that's possible given they're locked and tracked and tied to your bank card...
There was a scooter tucked under a bridge near me which I suspect must have been hotwired in some way...
Perhaps people start stealing them and give up or are just taking the piss ..

I thought the lock was easily defeated and that this was why some of them click whilst speeding along?

 

[gentlegreen]

I thought the lock was easily defeated and that this was why some of them click whilst speeding along?

Yes I think it was an Alexi Sayle cycling video I saw where there was a clicking bike behind him ...

 

[extra dry]

What is wrong with a normal push bike? Oh that's right...its unhealthy for the environment, to get a human all huffing and puffing all over the atmosphere.

 

[hash tag]

I've just witnessed a couple with a push chair struggling to get past this thoughtlessly dumped hire bike. These things are a nightmare for people with poor site. There was an item on R4 a few days ago on which poorly sighted people have said they are frightened to go out any more as they often trip over them and end up getting injured.