Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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What is the worst Things You Can Do On a Lime Bike? Here's a list of examples of riding that you should avoid when using a Lime Bike. Timothée Chalamet rode a Lime bike to a London premiere and was fined for parking the lime bike in a non designated area... so we have to add that to the list!
And also a few questions: Can we describe Lime bikers as generally inexperienced? Do they look like the kind of cyclists who pick up a bike only occasionally and may also lack road knowledge?
I really don't know the answer to those questions, but here's a compilation of some lime bike riders who were a bit reckless, scatty, wobbly and silly.
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Timothée Chalamet reveals fine after riding e-bike to premiere
youtube.com/watch?v=Sn760ccTWs8

Timothée Chalamet rides a Lime bike to London premiere of A Complete Unknown
youtube.com/watch?v=ca47YJbyA9A

Ben Clatworthy, Transport Correspondent for the times wrote the following:
Lime bikers skip red light 84 times in an hour!
Ben Clatworthy, Transport Correspondent says that Our photographer’s images capture the menace of rental bikes in British cities
Jack Taylor captured the dangerous trend of Lime bike riders ignoring red lights at a busy London crossing
JACK TAYLOR FOR THE TIMES
Over the course of an hour at a single traffic light-controlled pedestrian crossing in London, the Times photographer counted 84 Lime bike cyclists running red lights.
In one picture, a man is seen holding his phone in one hand and the handlebars with the other while racing through the red lights at the pelican crossing.
Jack Taylor, the photographer, set out to capture the scale of the problem after a Lime bike rider was filmed hitting a child at a so-called floating bus stop in London.
Captured on video, the boy steps out into the bike lane, which cuts between the pavement and the bus stop, only to be hit by the Lime bike rider who flies over the handlebars.
The accident happened in Elephant


Sean Russell wrote the following for the times:
I know why Lime bike riders are so reckless
I’m a responsible cyclist but they bring out a different side of me, says Sean Russell
Sean Russell: a person is riding a bike that says on lime + uber
Lime bikes charge 27p per minute even if you are stationary
As I approached the zebra crossing on my bike I saw a woman waiting patiently to cross.
Early winter darkness had set in and it was the first really cold evening of the year.
I slowed to a stop and, as I did, she stepped out onto the crossing just when two Lime bikes passed on my right and rode straight across in front of her.
Then another passed within centimetres, slowing her step.
She looked scared and flustered, and jogged the rest of the crossing.
This, unfortunately, is life on the streets in London today.
Lime bikes sound like a great idea. You use your phone to rent an ebike and park it wherever you need to for someone else to come and pick