The railway station in Heerlen (Netherlands) is one of the over 250 locations in the Netherlands where you can rent the shared bicycles of the extremely successful bike share program OV-Fiets. This is an unattended bicycle parking facility (privately owned bicycles can be parked there too) so the rental process is completely automated.
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Do any of their bikes have hand-brakes?
I'm so used to them rather than back peddling.
Is it difficult to do if you don't know Dutch?
i wish the uk was likr this
Quite some security overflow.
The process of getting a bike at the facility is probably not so much of a hassle, I can understand that getting the special card that gains acces to the bike-parkings will be a hassle: I couldn't find a button that translates the pages to english: the system is up to the job to specify a different country.
The pass itself is valid for a year and runs non-stop unless you give notice you want to stop using OV-fiets.
Have a look and see for yourself if it's difficult
ov-fiets.nl
Can you rent an OV-fiets with brakes on the handlebars?
Dat zijn wel heel oude beelden. 🙂 Herkende de omgeving nauwelijks; hier verrijst de nieuwe stationsomgeving inmiddels.
Still no OV male-bicycles…
You guys had this 10+ yrs ago…we can barely get a protected bike lane or new bike racks in Florida today.
This is so complicated compared to other European cities and their bike rental systems.