Timothée Chalamet’s red-carpet ride adds to Lime bikes’ ‘fashion credentials’

Actor's premiere entry shows how the electric rental bikes have shifted gear from everyday commuter transport

Wobbling along on a scuffed-up, muddy Lime bike is a journey that will be familiar to many commuters. But riding one to to the premiere of your new Oscar-tipped film? Less so.

That Timothee Chalamet turned up to the London red carpet of A Complete Unknown on a Lime is a new high for the clunky electric bikes, which in recent years have shifted gear from quotidian to cool.