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After months of delays, the national capital’s dormant bike-sharing network is re-launching with a catchy new name and shiny new bicycles.

The program formerly known as Capital BIXI will now be called VeloGo, its private operator announced on Friday.

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CycleHop, the Miami company that bought the National Capital Commission’s network of bikes and locking stations in April, is opening five bike-share stations on select days starting this weekend to demonstrate the new system.

Three of the new stations are in Ottawa and two are in Gatineau.

The company has also launched a snazzy new VeloGo website where new members can sign up and see how the bike-sharing system works.

It might seem odd for a new bike-sharing service to launch in October, when the leaves are starting to fall. But this is a soft launch for the network; CycleHop says the full VeloGo system will launch in the spring.

When CycleHop took over Capital BIXI’s 250 bikes and 25 locking stations in April, the company’s chief executive said the program would launch by summer.