User:SageMint/sandbox/The Bike Club

The Bike Club is a British online bicycle rental company. It delivers bicycles to customers with children aged between one and fourteen, and allows them to exchange the bicycles for a larger size when their children grow out of the bicycles. Returned bicycles are refurbished and sent to other customers. The company is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

The company was founded in 2016 by a couple from London, James Symes, a former KPMG accountant, and Alexandra Rico-Lloyd, a former employee of the Mayor of London. The company raised £1 million in seed funding in January 2019, in a funding round led by Mike Balfour, founder of Fitness First. In March 2020, it raised £614,000 through a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube, before raising a further £5.7 million in September 2020.