Great review! I keep calling them "time machines" because in a weekend they'll sometimes save me an hour of being stuck in traffic jams, trying to find a parking space or waiting for buses. I use Lime most of the time and it's worth getting a pass any time you're likely to ride one for more than about 10 minutes (PAYG is £1 unlock and 29p/min, whereas a pass costs £3.99 for 30 minutes over 24 hours, so you save money after the 10th minute and it's amazing how far/how many journeys you can get in 30 minutes. I'm not great at time keeping and often end up rushing about so these are a lifesaver.
@@mi1h0use thank you for watching Yeah I’ve learned loads more since doing that and now buy the minute bundles as so much cheaper and I also use the lime/uber ones in London
Hi Mark, great to see you using & enjoying the bikes. I did the feasibility study for them for Stevenage Council (including cycling all over the town to work out where the bays should go) & we started work on the project in 2019! So it's fantastic professionally to see them on the ground at last & being well used. 😃 PS tip from a regular user - if you're going to use them a lot get one of the minute bundles, they're a little bit cheaper per minute & you're not charged the £1 unlock fee
Hi ya Mark Thnk you so much for watching and yes I love them! such a brilliant idea and I love the back story to them I have now purchased the 400 minute bundle Thanks agin for watching
They are a fantastic pay as you go option. Takes away main drawbacks of e-bikes: cost, maintenance and security. Pay for what you ride and then leave it in a beryl bay. The latter is important otherwise if you abandon a bike outside a bay you’ll get charged a daily £10 charge. Also best value is the pay up front in £5 instalments. Works out at 5p per minute and also the unlocking fee of £1.50. Always check things like tyres before you set off and if the e-bike doesn’t ride properly return it to the nearest bay asap and inform beryl via the app to refund any minutes used.
@@badabing8884 thank you for watching, I love them, although it’s only £5 outside a bay and £10 if you leave it outside the perimeter of stevenage so somewhere like Great Ashby isn’t with the perimeter
As a fellow Stevenage resident I’d like to say thanks for the vid! I’ll be trying out the Beryl bikes around town for sure. I’ll be testing how quickly I can get to the station from the Pin Green bay!
Thank you for watching and the kind words mate, I’ve seen more and more people using them to get about now, this is exactly what I’ll be doing next week when I need to go to the station so let me know if you go before me as I’d love to know how long it takes
Hey Mark saw this posted on one of the Facebook discussions about the bikes. Thanks so much for such a positive review and thoughts about the bike scheme, which I hope they have success with, but also thanks for your positive thoughs about Stevenage itself.
Being a cycle path town the council should have had electric bikes in place decades ago, they had the foresight to make it a cyclist friendly town in the 60s yet did nothing to follow it up or encourage it, even non electric bikes would have been a start but they did absolutely nothing.
Good day Mark nice to have a local UA-camr channel I actually live in Letchworth I like the drone footage and that is good that you can hire ebikes. I have a drone as well DJI Maverick mini 2 probably about three four years old my ID licence had run out at the moment going to get it sorted next year in summer. I actually have 3 ebikes one I built from a mountain bike and the other 2 factory built bikes love going out and about on trains and along canals Hertford and Wear and going out with my grandkids nice to have a interesting channel take care Mark speak to you soon regards Dave 👍
@@davidvincent8340 Hi ya mate Thanks for watching and like the video I’m very new to the whole vlogging thing although I’ve watch vlogs for years and am have always wanted to do them so when out and bout the new DJI pocket 3 and then the DJI mini 4 pro and I love it
@@MKFstaples Right, but every single such 'just install the proprietary app' renta-bike/scooter service I have tried (except Villo in Brussels and Forest bikes in Brighton), doesn't actually work unless you have Google Apps installed on your phone. But they never tell you this in advance.
Great review! I keep calling them "time machines" because in a weekend they'll sometimes save me an hour of being stuck in traffic jams, trying to find a parking space or waiting for buses. I use Lime most of the time and it's worth getting a pass any time you're likely to ride one for more than about 10 minutes (PAYG is £1 unlock and 29p/min, whereas a pass costs £3.99 for 30 minutes over 24 hours, so you save money after the 10th minute and it's amazing how far/how many journeys you can get in 30 minutes. I'm not great at time keeping and often end up rushing about so these are a lifesaver.
@@mi1h0use thank you for watching
Yeah I’ve learned loads more since doing that and now buy the minute bundles as so much cheaper and I also use the lime/uber ones in London
Great review…my big manager ahead ahead!!!
@@ojukwujohn23 thank you mate
Hi Mark, great to see you using & enjoying the bikes. I did the feasibility study for them for Stevenage Council (including cycling all over the town to work out where the bays should go) & we started work on the project in 2019! So it's fantastic professionally to see them on the ground at last & being well used. 😃
PS tip from a regular user - if you're going to use them a lot get one of the minute bundles, they're a little bit cheaper per minute & you're not charged the £1 unlock fee
Hi ya Mark
Thnk you so much for watching and yes I love them! such a brilliant idea and I love the back story to them
I have now purchased the 400 minute bundle
Thanks agin for watching
They are a fantastic pay as you go option. Takes away main drawbacks of e-bikes: cost, maintenance and security. Pay for what you ride and then leave it in a beryl bay. The latter is important otherwise if you abandon a bike outside a bay you’ll get charged a daily £10 charge.
Also best value is the pay up front in £5 instalments. Works out at 5p per minute and also the unlocking fee of £1.50.
Always check things like tyres before you set off and if the e-bike doesn’t ride properly return it to the nearest bay asap and inform beryl via the app to refund any minutes used.
@@badabing8884 thank you for watching, I love them, although it’s only £5 outside a bay and £10 if you leave it outside the perimeter of stevenage so somewhere like Great Ashby isn’t with the perimeter
Good review Mark. I'm also from St Evenage mate. Might have to give those bikes a go.
@@SurvivalManagementGroup thank you for watching and yes definitely do
As a fellow Stevenage resident I’d like to say thanks for the vid! I’ll be trying out the Beryl bikes around town for sure. I’ll be testing how quickly I can get to the station from the Pin Green bay!
Thank you for watching and the kind words mate, I’ve seen more and more people using them to get about now, this is exactly what I’ll be doing next week when I need to go to the station so let me know if you go before me as I’d love to know how long it takes
Hey Mark saw this posted on one of the Facebook discussions about the bikes. Thanks so much for such a positive review and thoughts about the bike scheme, which I hope they have success with, but also thanks for your positive thoughs about Stevenage itself.
@@trevorcoultart thank you mate, too much negativity around these days, I always try to be positive
Loved the Drone footage Mark! I'm suprised we didn't get these sooner considering stevenage is made for cycling
Thank you for watching and that’s exactly what I thought
Being a cycle path town the council should have had electric bikes in place decades ago, they had the foresight to make it a cyclist friendly town in the 60s yet did nothing to follow it up or encourage it, even non electric bikes would have been a start but they did absolutely nothing.
Hey Gooner, slick review.
I Ebike about Stevenage constantly.
Haven’t tried a ‘Nidge Bike’ yet though
Maybe this week?
All the best 😎👍
@@jazpaulallen2409 thank you mate, definitely give it a try
Your vlogs are getting very good mate love the drone footage
Can you do some more gig logs ?👍
Thank you mate, I’ll try and get one done tomorrow
I believe you ride a bike rather than drive it.
Also believe the app T&C’s makes you sign up that you will wear a helmet to use it.
Apologise for the mistake and I now have a helmet 😊
Thanks for watching 😍
Good day Mark nice to have a local UA-camr channel I actually live in Letchworth I like the drone footage and that is good that you can hire ebikes. I have a drone as well DJI Maverick mini 2 probably about three four years old my ID licence had run out at the moment going to get it sorted next year in summer. I actually have 3 ebikes one I built from a mountain bike and the other 2 factory built bikes love going out and about on trains and along canals Hertford and Wear and going out with my grandkids nice to have a interesting channel take care Mark speak to you soon regards Dave 👍
@@davidvincent8340 Hi ya mate
Thanks for watching and like the video
I’m very new to the whole vlogging thing although I’ve watch vlogs for years and am have always wanted to do them so when out and bout the new DJI pocket 3 and then the DJI mini 4 pro and I love it
The begining of 15 nin citys
There is no possible way that anyone wants to be stuck in their own town or city, this will not work as people wont accept it.
Does it need google play services installed on your phone to work?
@@xxwookey you will need to download the Beryl e-bike app and create an account
@@MKFstaples Right, but every single such 'just install the proprietary app' renta-bike/scooter service I have tried (except Villo in Brussels and Forest bikes in Brighton), doesn't actually work unless you have Google Apps installed on your phone. But they never tell you this in advance.
Hi @@xxwookey Forest is in London - Brighton has Beryl (like Stevenage). Note there's an Apple app too
@@markstrong8502 Aha. It was you that told me about Forest, so I assumed it was in Brighton :-)
Great review…my big manager ahead ahead!!!