Comments on: All I need is this bike tree… and this lamp….

By: dave

dave — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:11:28 +0000

I ride my bike where I ride my bike. If I can’t lock it, it goes where I go.

By: Infovoyeur

Infovoyeur — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:08:27 +0000

You are rite about theft in larger cities. The ONLEY two time’s I EVER had a problem parking, was (1) Chicago (USA) suburb maul had to attach to a Wal-Mart shoping kart, and (2) Chicago 5-***** luxxurie hotel whair a conference was being held, dragon ladi said “No Parking, nobody ever comes here on a bicycle” and etc. of coarse I said, “Well whom am I…” and attached it to the employeees’ railing. Now I oan a Folding bicycle which solves 51% of the problem’s. KEEP ON WHEALING.

Chester Kartoffelkopfe, Correlator, POTATO CENTRAL INTERNATIONAL
[S.E. Wisconsin U.S.A.]

By: daylight spectrum lamp

daylight spectrum lamp — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:11:07 +0000

Wow! Thanks for the great post. I have been meaning to write something similar on my blog. Looks like you got there first. Cheers.

By: Erik Ryberg

Erik Ryberg — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:52:04 +0000

Here is a low-tech version of the same thing in Bogota, Colombia that is much simpler. You walk in, put your bike on a hook, and it gets hoisted up.

http://www.tucsonbikelawyer.com/bike-parking-in-bogota/

No CAD, baking soda, or fiendishly complicated thingabobs required.

EBR

By: YuriB

YuriB — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:08:26 +0000

That is downright sweet!!!

By: Mikey

Mikey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:42:34 +0000

hotspot— Baking soda IS frozen. It’s precipitated sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3).

rotten— Yes. I had my rear wheel stomped on while my bike was racked one time.

art— You’re right, I sold electric tidbits for ASRS (automated storage and retrieval) systems. Slip rings and conductor bar. Oddly, two major global players are in Salt Lake City. They have standard product that can handle loaded pallets, even cars, and they have done insanely high-SKU (unique item) systems like the library at the University of Utah. They could fire up their CAD and whip out a drawing for a bike locker in half a day.

In downtown Seattle, they have this “biketown” or something like that, you buy a subscription and use their indoor, three-high rack. There are employees there all the time and cameras, you could safely rack a decent bike there. Of course, that’s where I met the white rasta dude who said clipless pedals were a conspiracy by billion-dollar pedal companies and thay the best way to ride is to drag your inside birkenstock in the turns.

By: art

art — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:59:09 +0000

Patrick, The problem with just “more racks” is that they take up a lot of space, which in urban areas gets expensive fast. By racking the bikes vertically underground, the equipment cost can be more than offset by the smaller footprint. Also, the linked article used the phrase “fiendishly complicated”, but this whole system is basically a 20 year old mainframe tape library with bigger motors.

By: Rotten

Rotten — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:38:19 +0000

One huge problem is vandalism of bikes in racks. This would definitely take care of that. Then you wouldn’t have to commute on a $15 yard sale bike. This would be good for big college towns like State College, Pa. No more drunks smashing wheels of bikes in racks.

By: dave

dave — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:24:45 +0000

Those jaws look like taco salad waiting to happen. Probably okay for some heavy-assed pig of a city bike, but you wouldn’t see me trusting a real bike to that thing.

By: hotspot shield

hotspot shield — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:40:08 +0000

Why doesn’t baking soda freeze?

By: Gnome

Gnome — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:36:19 +0000

the maestro is on to something.

By: singletrack maestro

singletrack maestro — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:43:17 +0000

If you ever saw Amsterdam train depo . Tens of thousands of sweet commuters . You could put your stash in the storage tree . Go get stoned to the b Jesus , come back and type your number in ( maybe ), then wait , then ride home and get stoned .!