21-04-2017 18:21 via theguardian.com

'Uber for bikes' comes to Cambridge – if you can find it

China’s popular dockless cycle share schemes allow riders to drop their bike wherever they want. Ofo is the first to launch in the UK - but what will our rider make of it? Ofo, one of a host of Chinese start-ups hoping to do for bikes what Uber did for taxis, has chosen Cambridge for its first foray into Europe, a trial of which launched without fanfare this week. Chinese cities have seen hundreds of thousands of these ‘dockless’ bikes hit its streets, that now have tens of mil
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