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WHAT IS OYBIKE?

The OYBike System is a street-based rental station network that allows you to hire and return a bicycle via your mobile phone.

The OYBike system is based on the availability of rental bicycles at key locations:
  • Tube stations
  • Public buildings
  • Key transport interchanges
  • Car Parks
These bicycles are secured to their bike stands using cables that are attached to the bicycle and which double as security locking cables when the bicycles are on hire. Each bike stand is equipped with a specially developed electronic lock operated through a keyboard and LCD display. This lock holds the cable secure until that bicycle is rented out. An OYBike registered user select an available bicycle and the locks display a code, the user then calls the OYBike call centre and gives them that code.

Click here to see the OYBike demonstration movie!

A unique pin code is then read out to the user and sent back by text messaging. This pin code is entered into the lock to release the bicycle. After use the bicycle is locked into any empty port on an available OYBike station. A unique pin will appear on the lock display that must be sent back to OYBike to end the hire period.

To use the OYBike system you will need to pre-register with an initial usage credit of £10. Optional theft insurance is available at additional cost. OYBikes are free to use for up to 30 minutes a time! For longer hire times see our Hire rates.

NEWS

First Town Centre Bike Rental System Arrives in the UK Cheltenham joins Paris, Barcelona & Other European Cities to Offer Bikes for Hire (14/07/2008)

First Town Centre Bike Rental System Arrives in the UK Cheltenham joins Paris, Barcelona & Other European Cities to Offer Bikes for Hire Cheltenham, long a town known for its spa, regency housing and festivals now has another accolade to add to the list...

Cheltenham Sites being updated (30/06/2008)

As we have just moved a lot of the bikes from the University to the town centre the website is currently not up to date with the number of bikes and/or the correct locations...

OYBike Goes International And Delivers the Shared Bike Concept to Universities in the USA (03/06/2008)

The partnership of OYBike, the UK’s only automated bike-hire company, and Veolia Transport, one of the world’s largest transport companies, has delivered its first international contract in Chicago, USA...

OYBike "How to Use" Video on You Tube (28/05/2008)

We have just produced this quick video on how to use the OYBike system...

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