GTA 6's wholesome Boris Bike docking revealed in alleged WIP Rockstar portfolio video

I don't care what they call them where you're from

Over the weekend, Grand Theft Auto 6’s legions of fan weather-watchers spotted an animation portfolio reel that includes what appears to be some WIP stuff from GTA 6. Assuming the leak is legitimate, this isn’t nearly an eruption on the scale of the 2022 GTA 6 leaks: it contains a couple of extremely non-final animations from Rockstar’s forthcoming open world game.

One is of deuteragonist Lucia Caminos jumping out of a pick-up truck, which seems like a thing she’d do, though official GTA 6 trailers suggest she’d do it with a lot more bum jiggle than this. Another is of a placeholder baldy man – let’s christen him as something appropriately generic, like Jean-Luc Picard – undocking a bike from a public bicycle hire station. Yes, GTA 6 has Boris Bikes.

I call them Boris Bikes because that’s what they were nicknamed when they came to London a few years ago, during the mayorship of tactically “bumbling” clown-emperor Boris Johnson. Since then, they’ve switched sponsors and been rebranded as Barclays Bikes and Santander Cycles, neither of which has the same ring, nor the same mild notoriety. In GTA 6, the bike hire scheme appears to be named LomBikes, a division of LomBank, a bank that already exists in the world of GTA. That’s what it’s called in the animation reel. You can also make out a LomBike docking station in one of the leaked 2022 images, which Rockstar have confirmed as genuine.

The presence of public bike hire stations in GTA 6 gives me a weird pang. It might be the only thing that has given me a weird pang, to be honest, save for the Tom Petty music in the announcement trailer. I used to live in a block near central London and the local kids were always doing weird experiments on the bikes. There was always a jailbroken Boris inside the security door that was covered in unidentifiable substances. The vehicle would deteriorate further as the weeks went by, eventually migrating to its final resting place beneath a stairwell. When riding the Boris Bikes, there was the thrill of trying to reach a docking station with a vacant slot inside the free usage period. At least one of these anecdotes feels like a natural basis for a GTA sidequest.

GTA 6 has recently been delayed again – it’ll now launch in November 2026. In the meantime, Rockstar face a lawsuit from a UK union after firing around 30 people on charges of leaking confidential information.