![]() There’s a map on the app with the dock sites, so you know roughly where to go. Once it’s all sorted, the system clicks into gear and gets easier. It also seems to flit between English, Spanish, and Portuguese at random. The app is pretty insistent with reminders to get started and it’s not clear how much data it harvests. Cédulas Extranjerías are not accepted, strangely, and it rejects the number if you enter six digits in the CC field. It’s a long process and requires your passport number and country code. We strongly recommend doing this well before taking a bike. The next dock along, though, has a sticker explaining how to download the Tembici app. The first dock we find has no guide to the system and it’s not intuitive. It’s fiddly and annoying to get started, to say the least. With two together at Calle 53, we were in luck! In total, we could see under 10% available. That’s important because the system wasn’t showing many of those 3,300 bikes as available. There are also three docking points close together. That’s a 20 min or so walk, so just about worth using a bike. With the aid of the BP editor, Emma Newbery, we decided to test out the system on a relatively easy jaunt from Calle 53 to Lourdes. The eye test shows most docks are often empty, so it’s either already popular or some bikes are being held back. Which way will Bogotá go? We thought we’d try the system for ourselves. They’ve struggled in other places though, with famous pictures of abandoned Chinese bikes. ![]() These schemes have been wildly popular in Europe, most famously Paris, Barcelona, and London. Well, not all across Bogotá, but more on that later. There are some 3,300 of them in more than 300 locations across Bogotá. It’s the start of a new scheme by Brazilian company Tembici to finally bring a bikeshare service to the Colombian capital. You might have seen rows of brightly decorated granny bikes in Bogotá recently. We took Bogota’s new Tembici bikes for a spin. ![]() Bogotá has a brand new shiny bike hire scheme, but what’s it like to use? We go for a spin on the new wheels.
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