Woman hit by child on Lime bike denied compensation, says Guardian
The victim in this horrendous case is not calling for it, but honestly I’d just like to see dockless electric hire bikes banned. They’re a menace and extremely dangerous. Casual cyclists can get by fine with standard hire bikes. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Alex von Tunzelmann184I mean, this should be an absolute minimum. And they won’t even do it. I hope @london.gov.uk will take action. At least we need legislation to force ebike companies to take responsibility for their product and their customers.
Flora Renz55At a minimum they need to be docked. The Strand around the LSE and King’s is a nightmare to traverse as a wheelchair user because they are left everywhere on the pavement including on dropped kerbs and on traffic islands, they are impossible to move from wheelchair height given their weight
Pete Fraser46They’re so self evidently a bad thing, and the fact they were deployed with no public consultation or debate at all (everywhere) is really disqualifying to me. Fuck companies that intervene in our lives with impunity like that.
Casper Hoed23At least the speed limiter for these bike should come down. 25km/h is too quick for inexperienced cyclists - on a regular bike you have to be fairly fit to do that speed consistently, and that usually comes with many miles of road riding experience. A casual bike renter doesn’t have that road craft.
Kate Bevan22the way people ride those on the pavement drives me absolutely insane. They're *dangerous*. Also, saw two absolute little scrotes riding them through the little mall that adjoins Fulham Broadway tube station yesterday, for fuck's sake.
Dr Naomi Scott18Big heavy ebikes on pavements and running red lights TERRIFY me when I’m out with my v small kids. Toddlers can be erratic in their movements and someone riding where they shouldn’t be on a big heavy lime bike could kill my kid if they’re not alert. Am v pro cycling infrastructure in general BUT 1/
This sounds awful & I definitely think Lime should be much more accountable… but… when are we going to get a ‘something must be done’ piece about the 42 pedestrians killed & 100+ seriously injured every year on the pavement by cars? #Motonormativity www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike22The annoying thing is that if she had been hit by a driver with the same amount of injuries, she'd be lucky to be on page 6 of the local rag, not a national paper. Amused by their naive thoughts that printing rules of use on line bikes will solve things when th bike was being used illegally.
Matthias Feist (he/him)3If I read correctly, the bike was not rented, but used illegally (stolen?), and someone stopped a picture being taken of the rider. That's terrible and reads criminal, but if someone steals a rental car and commits a hit and run, do national newspapers clamour for compensation from the company?
Rolo2Chaos caused by loosely regulated corporate owned hire e-bikes, like the lack of enforcement around e-motos is part of Labour's plan to discredit cyclists and legit ebikes. If Reform get in they'll penalise all cyclists which will suit Labour's anti-transition funders and transport unions just fine.
🔞Mx Wred's haunted brain 🎂 4 days remain2There's not a paper published by Scott Trust Limited that isn't oil & gas propaganda first.
Dr. Lesley Barron, MD, MPhil, FRACS1The media bias/blind spot is very real.
I ride a lot in my bikes. I've seen riders stop at bikes and limes clatter into them. Riders not injured but very expensive carbon bike write off. I see lime riders swerve in and out of pavements, jumping lights. Just ban them.
Adventures in Modern Recoding10It's the complete lack of barrier to entry as well as the lack of investment that causes it. I crash my e-bike, my e-bike's fucked and I have to pay to fix it, plus whatever I crash into; they crash their Lime bike, Lime pays for everything. The moral hazard is just blatantly obvious.
Napoleon3The other thing is the regulation is rubbish. So you have two firms in one borough and maybe different firms in the adjoining one. Then you get piled up bikes of the one not allowed at the boundary.
Napoleon1I'd also ban Uber. Sorry, just too many ubers driven badly as the algo rewards speed in congested spaces, bad parking and stopping, etc
