{"id":1887,"date":"2010-08-26T13:23:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T12:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2010-08-26T13:23:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T12:23:37","slug":"london-tfl-barclays-hire-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1887","title":{"rendered":"London TFL Barclays hire bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/08\/photo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1888\" title=\"London TFL hire bikes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/08\/photo1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/08\/photo1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/08\/photo1-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/08\/photo1-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/08\/photo1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I had a chance to see the new TFL Barclays bikes when I visited Pozzoni\u2019s London office today. Just outside Euston station is a shiny row of the new bikes in their special stands. I knew before setting off I wouldn\u2019t be able to use them today as you currently have to register, become a member and receive a key before you can hire them. Apparently ad hoc hires will be possible though in the future from the consoles situated at each of the bike stations.<\/p>\n<p>The bicycles look very sturdy, with good mudguards, and the front rack with bungee looked like it would easily take my laptop bag. Coming up out of the tube at Barbican there was another row of bikes, so next time I need to get organised and do the journey by bike. However on my return to Euston I was glad I was on the tube as it was just chucking it down with rain. It will be interesting to see how popular they are when the weather is not so kind.<br \/>\nPerhaps a London charity MTBO using the hire bikes should be organised when the London City orienteering race is on next year\u00a0?<\/p>\n<p>Lots more info at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tfl.gov.uk\/roadusers\/cycling\/14808.aspx\">http:\/\/www.tfl.gov.uk\/roadusers\/cycling\/14808.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a chance to see the new TFL Barclays bikes when I visited Pozzoni\u2019s London office today. Just outside Euston station is a shiny row of the new bikes in their special stands. I knew before setting off I wouldn\u2019t be able to use them today as you currently have to register, become a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1887\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;London TFL Barclays hire bikes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-kit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1889,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}