Uber-owned bike rental company Jump has unveiled the design for its latest electric bicycles, which have a phone dock for easy navigation and a retractable lock to discourage vandalism.
The bikes — set to roll out in cities where Jump is active from January 2019 — also boast a swappable battery and a new dashboard with key controls.
The new features are meant to make the bicycles more appealing to inexperienced riders and easier for company technicians to service, while balancing flexibility and security concerns when it comes to parking.

The bright red bikes have a cable lock built into the rear fender, which retracts for easy storage during the ride.
Unlike other dockless bike hire schemes such as Mobike and Ofo, Jump has always required its users to lock its bikes to a rack to end their journey. This is meant to reduce the likelihood of the bicycles being left in inconvenient spots or even at the bottom of rivers or in trees — a form of vandalism that's blighted dockless schemes in some cities and led to Mobike withdrawing from Manchester earlier this year. Previously, Jump's e-bikes used a U-lock for this purpose, but Uber has now opted for a retractable cable to offer users more flexibility in terms of what structures they can use to chain their bike to.

Among the other features to make the bikes easier to use is a mount on the handlebars to hold the user's mobile phone. This enables them to navigate the streets, without having to stop and fumble f...