Basil Jet wrote:
On 2012\11\08 02:29, Recliner wrote:
Basil Jet wrote:
On 2012\11\08 00:53, wrote:

One big question is how to translate the ubiquitous (by UK standards)
cycling in a place like Cambridge across the country.

Get rid of all the hills.

Or have Chinese-style electric bikes. I found their rapid, but silent,
progress disconcerting -- as a pedestrian in China you really have to watch
out for them.

Aren't ordinary push-bikes rapid but silent?

No, just silent.

In message , at 19:50:47 on
Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Paul Corfield remarked:
I've never stumbled over a Boris-Bike rank on my various recent trips to
London[1], nor of course would I impose a bike on my fellow travellers
on the train to London.

Goodness - never?

Not on my recent trips, which have included quite large areas between
Euston, Kings Cross and Oxford Street.

They were deliberately located away from Main Line
stations so that will explain why you might not have immediately seen
one at St Pancras.

I use Kings Cross these days.

However I fall across the things all over Zone 1.

Looking at the map just now, I see there's a bike-rank at Warren St tube
Station, but I can honestly say it didn't register. Will look more
closely next time I'm there.

What I did see, was a pair of Electric Car charging points near Russell
Square, so I'm not entirely going around with my eyes closed!

ps As an out-of-towner who might be expected to use the Boris Bikes
instead of cluttering up a train, not having them at major railway
stations seems bizarre. If it's an issue of rationing them, then simply
tweak the charging system so that those ranks can only be used by
someone (say) once a week.
--
Roland Perry

In message , at 15:36:47
on Wed, 7 Nov 2012, remarked:

Indeed. I do sometimes wonder about Roland! The nearest one to King's Cross
and St Pancras isn't exactly far away or non-obvious either.

If it's not on the road between the two stations (a rather obvious place
to put it) then I wouldn't see it because I'm usually departing by tube.

However, I'm more likely to be on foot near Euston, so will keep a
better lookout next time I'm there.
--
Roland Perry

On 2012\11\08 02:51, Recliner wrote:
Basil Jet wrote:
On 2012\11\08 02:29, Recliner wrote:
Basil Jet wrote:
On 2012\11\08 00:53, wrote:

One big question is how to translate the ubiquitous (by UK standards)
cycling in a place like Cambridge across the country.

Get rid of all the hills.

Or have Chinese-style electric bikes. I found their rapid, but silent,
progress disconcerting -- as a pedestrian in China you really have to watch
out for them.

Aren't ordinary push-bikes rapid but silent?

No, just silent.

How fast are these electric bikes?

In message , at 18:53:48
on Wed, 7 Nov 2012, remarked:
One big question is how to translate the ubiquitous (by UK standards)
cycling in a place like Cambridge across the country.

Making the rest of the country dryer and flatter would be a good start.
--
Roland Perry

In message , at
20:55:34 on Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Arthur Figgis
remarked:
Some of my mates up north assume that almost all Londoners are in
abject poverty - at home people aspire to a decent job so that they
won't have to live in a flat or overlooking old docks.

Or in a flat overlooking old docks.
--
Roland Perry

Call me a cynic, but why am I not surprised that this announcement was
made the day the news was (predictably) full of the US election
results?

Peter

Roland Perry wrote:

I've never stumbled over a Boris-Bike rank on my various recent trips to London[1],

You can't have looked very hard, then.

Neil
--
Neil Williams in Milton Keynes, UK. Put first name before the at to reply.

In article ,
(Basil Jet) wrote:

On 2012\11\08 00:53, wrote:

One big question is how to translate the ubiquitous (by UK standards)
cycling in a place like Cambridge across the country.

Get rid of all the hills.

There are plenty of places with no more hills than Cambridge, including much
of London.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
15:36:47 on Wed, 7 Nov 2012, remarked:

Indeed. I do sometimes wonder about Roland! The nearest one to King's
Cross and St Pancras isn't exactly far away or non-obvious either.

If it's not on the road between the two stations (a rather obvious
place to put it) then I wouldn't see it because I'm usually departing
by tube.

However, I'm more likely to be on foot near Euston, so will keep a
better lookout next time I'm there.

It's across the Euston Road in Belgrove Street. Not obvious if leaving the
area by tube, I accept, but more apparent if catching a bus. It's nearly
empty as I write. I also see it is the top docking station by avg hires per
day since install.

There are several docking stations nearer to Euston.

--
Colin Rosenstiel