Tag Archives: Introduction

After the flood another mess that needs cleaning up

Posted on Saturday, 5 February, 2011 by Bill

With the flood now three weeks behind us, the mud washed away from the stations and the bikes of CityCycle still to reappear in the flood affected areas it seems CityCycle has another mess to deal with. At 5:12 pm … Continue reading →

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CityCycle Station Roll Out Continues

Posted on Sunday, 5 December, 2010 by Bill

10 New Stations in the last Three Weeks The development of new stations continues with the latest stations being: Station 50: Gipps St / Wickham St, Fortitude Valley – 21 bike racks Station 67: Vernon Tce / Commercial Rd, Newstead … Continue reading →

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A Month of CityCycle

Posted on Monday, 1 November, 2010 by Bill

It’s been a month of CityCycle in BrisVegas and what is the assessment of how it’s going. This morning Tae Baker (@taezar) the unofficial, super enthusiastic, power promoter and very quickly becoming the Queen of CityCycle (someone at CityCycle should … Continue reading →

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Disposable Helmets for Melbourne

Posted on Monday, 18 October, 2010 by Bill

Could disposable helmets be a solution for Australian urban cycling? The idea of disposable helmets would be as a mid point solution to the issues of utilising CityCycle with the current helmet laws and having the convenience of spontaneous usage. … Continue reading →

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Two Weeks – So how is CityCycle going?

Posted on Sunday, 17 October, 2010 by Bill

It’s been two weeks since the offical launch of CityCycle and I wonder how the experience is for the scheme and users of it. Lets see the more interesting tweets for that period from 9 to 17 October, lets see … Continue reading →

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First Review of CityCycle – Happy but Teething Issues to Fix

Posted on Sunday, 3 October, 2010 by Bill

Early adopter of the CityCycle scheme Tae wrote a great little review of her initial attempts of CityCycle. It’s not all good news but you can’t keep the determination of a Happy Panda down when she wants to embrace CityCycle … Continue reading →

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…and Now for The News

Posted on Saturday, 2 October, 2010 by Bill

Channel 7 News Article about the Launch of CityCycle Brisbane bike program launched @ Yahoo!7 Video  

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First Ride on a CityCycle Bike

Posted on Saturday, 18 September, 2010 by Bill

Today I had the chance to try out one of the CityCycle bikes on display at Musgrave Park after guessing what the CityCycle bikes would look like, they are the same bar the localised colouring as the Vélib’ bikes in … Continue reading →

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Do We Want a London Success or a Melbourne Failure?

Posted on Saturday, 7 August, 2010 by Bill

In the last post Mike Robbo commented with some interesting points  about the Melbourne Bike Share programme and the London Barclays Bike. Rather than repeat them here I encourage you to go read his excellent, long and informative post on … Continue reading →

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City Cycle – Brisbane’s Vélib’ Community Bicycle

Posted on Tuesday, 20 July, 2010 by Bill

Welcome to City Cycle Brisbane – Our Place on the Internet for Brisbane Community Bicycle Users Welcome to our place on the internet to  find all the news and events around City Cycle, the soon to be introduced community bicycle … Continue reading →

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