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By: Mayhem « Coffee Helps

Mayhem « Coffee Helps — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:16:37 +0000

[...] I quickly realised that road-crossing is rather more challenging in places like, say, Estonia or France. And then I came to Asia, where it’s really more of an extreme sport. I mean, Korea is bad. [...]

By: Moon

Moon — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:50:26 +0000

Loved that post … what a brilliant idea, I would imaging Lance Armstrong would love to live there ….

By: bevchen

bevchen — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:53:43 +0000

They have some kind of tracking device on them I think. Or at least a little box that has a blinking green light on. Plus they have “Deutsche Bahn” written all over them… slightly conspicuous!

By: Hails

Hails — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:10:03 +0000

Croquecamille – there speaks one with absolutely no fear of the Crazy French Roads, then!
Bevchen – if I wasn’t such an honest girl, that would seem like an awfully good way to get a free bike, you know. I can’t help but wonder how they prevent people just taking off with them…
EM – It made me laugh, too, after I’d removed my hands from over my eyes and seen that she was still alive. She just started flailing her arms around in a complete rage, and swearing loudly at him. And he just continued to reverse past her…
Billybrid – Get yourself a driving licence, woman!

By: billybrid

billybrid — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:13:37 +0000

I think I’m gonna need to use one of those bikes to get to Ballymena on Sunday morning.

By: English Mum

English Mum — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:36:43 +0000

For some reason, the bit about the woman nearly getting run over made me really laugh out loud, which is quite worrying seeing as I’m in the house on my own. Funny girl. x

By: bevchen

bevchen — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:28:37 +0000

We have a bike thing I mean, not why…

By: bevchen

bevchen — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:26:40 +0000

Ooh, that’s brilliant. Why have a bike thing here, provided by the Deutsche Bahn, but there are no stations.. you can leave it anywhere. The idea is you call (or possibly text) the number on the bike when you pick it up then when you’re done you just leave it somehwere. I presume you then have to call again to say you’ve stopped using it. So throughout toen you’ll just randomly run into all these bikes leaning against trees and stuff.

By: croquecamille

croquecamille — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:45:37 +0000

Wow, the bikes in Lyon have warning timers? That’s excellent! The Vélib’s (and no, it’s not abuse, that apostrophe is supposed to be there) in Paris work similarly, but there is no warning as to when you are approaching the 30-minute mark. However, if you roll up to a Vélib’ station and there is no room to park your bike, you can sign in at the kiosk and it will tell you nearby stations with open spots and give you a free 15 minutes. I do love the public bikes!