Boris Bikes
Barclays Cycles is a public bicycle hire scheme
in London, United Kingdom. The scheme's bicycles are popularly known as Boris Bikes, after Boris Johnson, who
was the Mayor of London when the scheme was launched.
The operation of the scheme is
contracted by Transport for London to Serco. The scheme is sponsored, with Santander
UK being the main sponsor from April 2015 Barclays Bank was the first sponsor
from 2010 to March 2015, when the service was branded as Barclays Cycle Hire.
A study showed cyclists using
the scheme are three times less likely to be injured per trip than cyclists in
London as a whole, possibly due to motorists giving cycle hire users more road
space than they do other cyclists. Moreover, recent customer research showed
that 49 per cent of Barclays Cycle Hire members say that the scheme has
prompted them to start cycling in London.
During the 2012 Olympic Games,
a record of 47,105 cycle hires were made in a single day
To Build a Boris bike, I purchased, HO mountain bikes from PECO then I added a rear mud guard made of paper. 
After painting them light blue, black and grey. I built the rack out of balsa and stuck the cycle hire logos to it adding signage to the pavement
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