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 is increasingly familiar for commuters. But riding one to the premiere of your new Oscar-tipped film? Less so.

That Timothée 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.