Single ride
One unlock, one trip, one charge when you dock the bike.
- Unlock and ride from the map
- Cost and duration on screen
- Charged at the end of the ride
- Receipt in ride history
City bike sharing — on the street, not in a shed
Find a free bike on the map, unlock it with your phone, ride, end the rental. The cost and the clock are on screen the whole way.
MEDIA BIKES exists for one kind of trip: the one that is too far to walk and too short to be worth a car, a fare gate or a bike of your own. You are standing outside a station exit, or a block from the office, or halfway down a street in the rain, and there is a bike racked within sight. You open the app, you take it, you leave it at the station nearest where you are going.
Everything in the service is built around that moment. The map shows what is actually there right now — which stations have bikes in them and which have free docks waiting at the other end, because a dock with nowhere to return to is a problem, not a ride. The unlock happens from your phone, so there is no card to collect, no counter to visit and no code to remember. The meter starts when the lock opens and stops when it clicks shut, and the figure on screen is the figure you pay.
No membership card, no key, no bike to carry up the stairs. You are renting the use of a bicycle for the length of a trip, and the rest — the air in the tyres, the brakes, the light, the place to put it back — is our job.
Stations, bikes and the app in the hand of someone about to ride.
The map shows bikes that are free to take this minute and docks that are free to return to. Tap a station to see both numbers before you walk there.
Hold the phone to the bike you picked and the lock releases. No card, no PIN pad, no staffed counter anywhere in the trip.
Duration and running cost sit on the ride screen from the moment the lock opens, so a longer detour is a decision you make with the number in front of you.
Lock the bike into a dock, the rental closes and the amount is charged to the method already saved in the app. A receipt lands in your ride history.
Brakes, lights, tyres and the lock itself are serviced on a rotation, and any bike a rider flags goes out of circulation until a mechanic clears it.
If something is wrong with the bike you took, flag it from the ride screen. The bike is pulled, and your rental is sorted out with you directly.
Pick the one that matches how often you actually get on a bike. Everything is managed in the app and nothing needs a shop visit.
One unlock, one trip, one charge when you dock the bike.
For a day of short hops around town instead of one trip across it.
For the commute you make most mornings of the week.
Pass availability and rates vary by city. Ask us what applies where you ride.
Open the map. Nearby stations show how many bikes are docked and how many spaces are free. Walk to the one that has both.
Choose the bike at the dock, confirm in the app and the lock releases. The rental starts at that moment, not when you set off.
Duration and running cost stay on the screen. Change your mind mid-trip and the nearest station with free docks is one tap away.
Push the bike into a free dock until it clicks. The rental closes, the total is charged in the app and the trip is saved to your history.
A bike-share system is judged on the ten seconds a rider spends looking at the map, but it is built in the hours around them. Overnight and through the day, bikes move: stations at the top of a hill empty out, stations by the train platform fill until nothing can be returned there. Rebalancing is the quiet half of the job — moving machines back to where tomorrow morning will want them so the map you open is telling the truth.
The other half is mechanical. Every bike comes off the street on a rotation for brakes, tyres, lights, chain and the lock mechanism, and anything a rider reports is pulled the same way rather than left for the next person to discover. A bike that will not unlock cleanly is worse than no bike at all, because it costs someone a walk they already made.
If you want to know when the service reaches your neighbourhood, whether a station can go outside your office or campus, or how a fleet would work for a team that rides between sites, the form below is the way to raise it. Tell us where you are and what you need the bikes for, and we will come back to you with what is realistic.
Coverage, stations, memberships or a fleet for your team — send the question and a person will answer it.
Thanks — we have it. Someone from MEDIA BIKES will get in touch with you shortly by email.
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