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Get on your eBike! A speedy solution for travel, free for NHS staff.

Camden Council offering a variety of options with  #tryabike
It's been a long London Council initiative to make bike hire free for at least 30 days- 4 weeks, with "try a bike"the idea is to reduce pollution and to create an opportunity to see if a bike is right for you, before investing in buying your own.

The benefits of using a bike at this time are insurmountable, and especially for those at risk of infection but required to attend a job they can't do from home.
Using a bike helps all our shop staff, post office workers, cleaners and of course the vital medics and allied professionals to avoid all public transport, which as we all know has been increasingly packed due to the reduced services on tubes and buses in waiting in the brisk the cold spring sunshine and occasional rain,  minimising workers’ disruption and possibilities of being infected as they travel to attend to crucial work in the COVID-19 epidemic.

Free ebikes..

There are regular bikes currently being offered free to NHS staff from Buzzbike, and from today 20 eBikes will be available on a three-month loan for free* again, specifically for NHS workers via 'Fully Charged' a London based business with a sister site in Silverstone.

So, what is an eBike?


Gocycle ebike
eBike is short for electronic bike which is basically a pedal bikes with an electric motor, adding speed.
The ones being offered from Fully Charged are from Gocycle offering twenty of its Gocycle GS at no cost– to buy it you'd be looking at £1,999 they've been described as "state-of-the-art" and come with lights, mudguards and a lock.  The designer of the offered Gocycle ebike, Richard Thorpe adds "tired legs will appreciate the benefits of an electric motor to assist them home with less effort."
Well you can't argue with that! Who doesn't need an extra boost at this time?

Since bike shops have been excluded from the governments list of mandatory closures this is a wonderful resource to our capital at this uncertain time.
ebikes at Fully Charged

More options...


Of course these 20 eBikes are likely to get snapped up pretty quickly - there's probably a much larger demand by the NHS staff, if supply allows then the eBikes may go to other key workers.
So in the meantime don't forget Santander bikes offer a free 30minutes and your local council will offer you the loan of a regular bike but some have multiple options too for at least the next 4 weeks, and supermarket workers, cleaner, pretty much anyone who needs to be out and around London at this time are all eligible - just go to your own local authority page and click on the links to #tryabike.

NHS Staff simply need to sign-up to the scheme and trained mechanics will assemble and conduct pre-delivery inspections on all eBikes before being delivered.
  *with many more being added to the supply- its been said.
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