Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

I couldn't agree more - the things are an absolute blight. My understanding is that their whole model is that you can hire a bike and ride it for the amount of time you've paid for, and just leave it wherever you are when the time ends. If it were anything else, folks would get done for fly-tipping.

 

Think yourself lucky - those who are fanatics would have you believe that everything is all tidy little ranks like this:



The reality, however is:

And worse...

Hellish dangerous for anyone who is mobility of visually impaired.

 

I've seen much, much worse... they really are a dangerous blight.

 

They have vans that do go an relocate them, but they are only told to relocate specific bikes as far as I know, so something dumped in an outlying area can sit there for a long time. I live outside the London boundary and have seen quite a few dumped incredibly near the boundary.. I believe they are geo-fenced, so can't go beyond a certain area.

 

God knows - that is the bit I don't get, especially the scrappies.

 

Would be funny if they did

 

Mrs Shiney and myself have been with Flow, LV, Dial Direct and Darwin over the last few years. Each time, towards the end of the insurance, we get a renewal price that is considerably higher than we can get a new one from Confused.com so we switch. I'm sure the insurance companies offer a good price through Confused in the hope that you will renew automatically the following year.

I always ask for the same cover as we have had in previous years and keep a list of the cover that we want. That way it is always comparable. When Confused issue the table of quotes it has in the header the list of extras and you can see whether an insurance company is including it (it will have a tick in that box).