Lime - #RideGreen 4+

Used when weather is not bad, a Lime pass for an hour’s ride costs only fractionally more than my morning commute to work.
The all is easy to use, if sometimes annoying when trying to sell a Lime product and can be slow to update with availability of bicycles when, for instance large crowds are leaving football matches and a bike is taken.
The good thing about this is that you don’t have to worry about locking your bike or if it will be stolen and as the bikes are well supported by the charge you can ride in normal work clothing (assuming the streets are not wet!)
The only sneakiness is the time it takes to sign off your ride… can be a minute as it is suddenly oh so slow to end your ride and even takes seconds off as you take a picture of your bike!
Have not used scooter as I don’t have a driving licence.

Review update
I have now cancelled my prime membership. Frequently bikes are not where they are located on the app or I will book a bike and go out of my way to get to it, only to find it’s missing a pedal or both pedals, making me late to work. Bikes no longer “ring”, it’s no longer possible to submit faults in bikes. Bikes are very dirty and often the seats are broken too. Lime bikes are not cheap- they are more expensive than the tube - the fleet should be cleaned and repaired by the charging team. It’s a real shame because they are obviously battling against some vandalism with pedals being removed etc. On a positive note it’s got me into biking so I will be buying a bike through my work’s cycle to work scheme instead.

Old review -
I’ve updated the app but it seems to be getting worse, today I booked a bike that had been parked outside my flat, but it was gone when I walked back for it (the booking still live on my app). No bikes “ring” anymore when I try to find them. I can no longer submit photos or report faults with bikes. The who charge the bikes also need to clean the baskets more frequently, often these are too dirty to put a bag in. The new very small parking spots around London bridge make it impossible to park there as reception is poor so the app will never recognise you as in the correct location to park.

This is a scam. The rides are advertised as cheap but end up costing extortionate amounts (even more so if used regularly). It does not matter that your journey is very short and quick. The app keeps saying you cannot park here and there. This forces you to keep looking for a place and waste time with the ride ongoing - at your expense. 10 minute journey ends up being 15/20min, half of which is just finding a place to park in - when the app doesn’t bug saying that you can’t park here whereas it is allowed. This is not just the red designated areas but most of the city apart from very specific locations. This completely removes the point of lime which is (unlike Santander) that you don’t have to travel ages to put it back into the specific racks. It’s now virtually the same. Also I am talking about small journeys costing £5-10 so imagine a longer journey (say, 20-30min) you probably end up around £15-20… the price of an Uber… Very, very disappointing.

Also, I had ACCIDENT because of a Lime bike last year which cost me to get two serious knee injuries and Lime never took responsibility nor compensated me, even to a small extent, after weeks of a pseudo “enquiry”. This was totally dishonest and evil on the part of a multi million company costing me money and injuries because of their terrible service. Beware of the bikes. It could cost you your life.