Hackney Half 2025: 'Lime bike plan' and record demand as race reaches new hights - Set to be more than 60,000 people on race weekend involved in various capacities. advertisement.

The only hiccup is that over half of surveyed bikes from the company Lime were deemed "unrentable." Free-floating bike share bikes have littered our streets since 2017.

It was just before the start of last year’s edition that Ian Allerton, long-time organiser of the Hackney Half, realised quite how much the race had grown. “I think we knew we’d made it when ...

“I think we knew we’d made it when what felt like every Lime bike in London turned up,” says the event director, who has been involved in every Hackney Half since it launched in 2014.