Reddy Go app cycle hire arrives on the northern beaches

Sydney’s first bike-sharing scheme has arrived on the northern beaches - with bosses offering reassurances over cycles ending up cluttering the area

Liam Clark using a Reddy Go bike at Manly esplanade. Picture Adam Yip

SYDNEY’S first bike-sharing scheme has arrived on the northern beaches.

Reddy Go has brought 60 cycles to Manly, which can be hired via a phone app.

The bikes have GPS tracking and, unlike car share schemes or cycle hire in cities such as London and New York, do not have specific docks.

Users can leave them anywhere they are legally allowed, with the next user able to find and book a bike.

The bikes have GPS tracking and, unlike car share schemes or cycle hire in cities such as London and New York, do not have specific docks. Picture: Adam Yip

The bikes cost $1.99 a half-hour to hire – and come with a helmet.

However, similar schemes including oBike, which has also just started in Sydney, have come under fire for bikes ending up in waterways and even being put up trees by pranksters.

Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle has threatened to ban them.

Reddy Go marketing director Christy Geng offered reassurances that if bikes were left somewhere inappropriate or if too many built up in one place they had staff to relocate them.

“Manly is a beautiful place and we want Manly people to help us, any bikes parked in the wrong place, they can report it to us, ”she said.

Reddy Go bikes have arrived in Sydney

Sydney University student Liam Clark, 20, has already used the bikes.

Mr Clark, of Balgowlah, said he tried a similar scheme in Beijing, where bike hiring is extremely popular.

He has used the bikes to get to Manly Wharf and back, leaving them at a rack at the wharf or at his local park when he has finished.

“I think, for a young person like me, you don’t have to shell out for a bike – it’s the convenience of it,” he said.