bicingwatch

You can never have too many specialized blogs. Here is one about bicing bicycles, which were “freed”: Bicings liberadas

05 Bicing, originally uploaded by josocbcn.josobcn has some nice bicing t-shirts on his flickr stream.

El Bicing reta al vandalismo con vehículos más rígidos | El Periódico de Catalunya | Barcelona Bicing is adapting the design of the bikes to make them more robust against vandalism.

French Ideal of Bicycle-Sharing Meets Reality - NYTimes.com But this latest French utopia has met a prosaic reality: Many of the specially designed bikes, which cost $3,500 each, are showing up on black markets in Eastern Europe and northern Africa. Many others are being spirited away for urban joy …

I changed the map on http://api.bicingwatch.com/api/station_map a bit to make it load faster and more useful. Instead of always showing all stations directly it groups stations in areas and shows the number of stations in that cluster. Check out the link to see it in action.

Mapa de los 75 ‘bicing’ de España | ecomovilidad.net · Transporte público y movilidad urbana sostenible Aunque en Madrid nos acaban de anunciar nuestro sistema público de alquiler de bicis, no es ni mucho menos una idea pionera. Hasta 75 ciudades de nuestro país cuentan con estos sistemas en sus …

I haven't had this for a while, but today it happened again. I tried to use a bicycle in the morning (station #27), but the bike was broken so I placed it back into the anchor. Then the station started blinking yellow and blocked the bike. There was no functional bike left, so the station said so. …

Ciutat Vella llança un SOS per la inseguretat i el Bicing s’ensorra: “Però la sorpresa en la valoració del que ha empitjorat se l’endú una de les estrelles del mandat de Jordi Hereu, el servei municipal de Bicing, que registra un fort descontentament en relació amb la valoració que va rebre …

BBC - London - London’s new hire bike unveiled: “BBC London has been given the first look at the capital’s new hire bike. If all goes to plan, 6,000 of them will be parked on 400 docking stations next summer.” One nice thing compared to Barcelona: “The bikes will be …