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some well-meaning advice to da yoof of today

1) when you've hacked a Lime bike and finished with it, you don't have to throw it on the middle of the pavement where it might trip up your granny2) Even if you have hacked a Lime bike, you don't have to ride it on the pavement3) If you ride your hacked Lime bike with no hands, while looking at your mobile phone, you're really quite likely to fall off! 4) We passers-by really don't deserve the joy of listening to your boombox music as you pass by with the telltale clicking wheels - teach us a lesson and wear headphones!5) Likewise, we don't deserve the joy of looking at your half-clad bum sticking out over your trousers at half-mast - get a belt and leave all that to the plumbers!!

Davey Harris ● 5d16 Comments

Oh, I didn’t know that, Janice.

Steve Taylor ● 5h

I thought the Torys were going to do the same Steve.

Janice Evans ● 6h

If you just walk or bus down Chiswick High Road you get to Ravenscourt Park.  Most people move around within London.  We used to see Santander bikes regularly in Chiswick.  I know they've changed some docking stations but are you now saying they have been geofenced out?

Philippa Bond ● 2d

Because Starmer is giving da uncouth yoof da vote.

Steve Taylor ● 3d

Totally agree with the original post. These kids on the “clicking” bikes who then obstruct our pathways are in need of some lessons on social responsibility. How that then translates into criticism of Starmer genuinely escapes me, whatever one’s politics.

Beryl Wall ● 3d

you can see on the map which boroughs they don't cover too. like here

Chris Smith ● 4d

While a lot of the yoof are away on holiday it will be a lot quieter for anyone else to try out the Santander bikes.  You can see on their map which boroughs they cover.

Philippa Bond ● 4d

A decision which may come back to haunt him.He has probably only done it because he has perhaps lost much of whatever of the grey vote that he had.

Keith Iddon ● 4d

Stop talking about the little charmers who Two Tier is giving the vote to in the next general election!

Peter King ● 4d

Make helmets compulsory I say.

Keith Iddon ● 5d

“ Santander bikes are free on Sundays in August with a promotional code.”Don’t encourage them. You’ll just have more of da uncouth yoof screaming around on pavements, on their mobile phones, showing everyone their bum cracks!

Steve Taylor ● 5d

Santander bikes are free on Sundays in August with a promotional code.  There is a lot of info on cycling on the website:  A lot more cycle training is needed by many cyclists.https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/cycling/santander-cycleshttps://tfl.gov.uk/modes/cycling/cycle-skills#on-this-page-4

Philippa Bond ● 5d

Bet you need a half-clad bum to use one

Chris Smith ● 5d

I had no idea you had to be 18 to (legitimately) use a Lime e-bike but I can see that's what the T&Cs say.The Santander bikes can be used by people 14 or over ( though you need to be 18 to register to hire them).

Andrew Jones ● 5d

Well if the other bikes can't be hacked, that would be a good start. I was wondering whether Chiswick School might say something to its pupils, as I see dozens of them riding hacked bikes to school across the park, and anyway you're not supposed to ride them until you're 18!

Davey Harris ● 5d

Does anyone seriously think that anything will change whatever the colour/company is foist upon us? These bikes are just a massive pain in the rear for many of us.

Vanessa Smith ● 5d

It seems that the clacking can be annoying to some as they ride with headphones on with one hand on the handlebars and the other holding he mobile they are reading/watching.The great thing with Lime bikes was that the colour - whether you like it or not - was one way of making them stand out as a warning (and also an advertisement) of their presence.

Philippa Bond ● 5d