On Jul 19, 10:25*am, David Walters wrote:

On Jul 18, 9:19*am, wrote:

And membership?

It seems the biggest difference for now is the scheme will only be
available to members on the 30th with casual use four weeks later.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/medi...tre/16314.aspx

"Anyone will be able to sign up for a daily, weekly or annual
membership from 23 July at tfl.gov.uk/barclayscyclehire

In order to use the scheme on 30 July, members will need to have
received and activated their Cycle Hire key, so pioneers are urged to
sign up as soon as possible."

Thanks for that nugget of info David - that's an interesting
development. I guess it's fair enough, as it's a way of kinda soft-
launching the scheme in a more controlled way with a soft-of
controlled 'usership'. Still, it'll disappoint those who were keen on
trying it out early on, but who wouldn't want to fork out for a
membership until they'd given it a test-run, or because they've
already got their own bike which they use for cycling most places, or
whatever other reason.