All systems below can be seen at Bike Share Map – click on a circle to see the details of that system.
Manual | Both | Pedelec | |
Dock/ hub-based** | London (Sant.)* London (Beryl)* Stirling Edinburgh* Belfast Liverpool Nottingham Cardiff Swansea Hereford Bournemouth Slough M. Keynes (Sant.) Brunel (Uni.) Surrey (Uni.) Warwick (Uni.) | Glasgow Lincoln | Exeter Forth Valley |
Both | London (Freebike) | Brighton | |
Dockless | London (Mobike) Bristol Oxford (Mobike) Oxford (Pony) Cambridge | London (Lime) London (JUMP) M. Keynes (Lime) |
* Pedelecs announced but not yet launched.
** Including systems where bikes can be left out of a docking station/hub or the adjacent area, but a punitive fee (at least £5) is charged for such an activity.
Not including systems where the minimum hire time is a day or more or not point-to-point, like Brompton Hire, or very small systems (<20 bikes) like Donkey Republic, private systems, e.g. corporate or student-only schemes like Kingston Uni, or systems which are not at least third-gen (i.e. automatic kiosks) like Southport.
Forthcoming systems that have been announced include Norwich (a manual dock-based system from Beryl).
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