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Sunday, 27 July 2014

The Observer

• A day in the life of a London Boris BikeIt is 8am on a warm morning. Waterloo station in London is the city's busiest bicycle hire dock, and this is its busiest time of day. There are no bikes, of course. As quickly as vans unload cycles – 400 of them by 10am – the cycles disappear. Tutting rises from the queue. Then a man glides in, docks and strides off, and the first commuter in line has wheels. Today, wherever bike 15512 goes, we're going, too. We want to know how the cycle hire scheme is used, who rides the bikes, and why. What kind of London will one cycle see?

Sheffield Star

• VIDEO: Cycle kids test themselves in the ‘velodrome’Energetic children escaped the heat today with a session on the velodrome racing game set up at Doncaster Museum.