That looks pretty awesome to me, a guy who can never find a bike rack of any kind, anywhere, in my local area.Â
If you feel the need to complain about this then you really need to adjust your priorities and perspective.Â
mare on
Your bike hasn’t been stolen, so it works!
You should push your bike in a bit further in though, so your rear wheel is also secured. A thief would have to cut through 3, albeit small, pieces of steel. You padlock is enshrined by the metal box. This gave pretty good protection against bolt cutters. Currently, in the Angle Grinders Era, much less, but it’ll keep honest people honest and you can safely lock up your bike with a tiny padlock, if these where installed everywhere or you knew this was going to be your only destination.
It might be over-engineered, but has a relatively simple construction and I understand how it works without reading the instruction sticker (which is probably unreadable by now).
PleasantMongoose5127 on
Thief would cut through the one bit of mild steel that goes to padlock. I think it’s shit.
YerOldFriendGrambles on
This gets my goat too: businesses that have been hoodwinked into buying over complicated bike stand “systems”, when most cyclists would prefer a simple inverted U-shaped stand cemented into the ground (we call these “Sheffield stands” in the UK, not sure if that’s true elsewhere…)
unseenmover on
the bike garage at work has those. They work but scratch the crud outta the paint..
armpit18 on
This most certainly is an over engineered bike rack, but I’d prefer this over locking my bike up on a tree, light post, street sign, handrail, or anything else that’s not a bike rack.
eightsidedbox on
What would be great is if they had a regular rack next to it.
mitv11 on
whats the box for? store stuff? does it lock too?
Nihmrod on
The paint thing would annoy me. But apparently not the OP. If I had to use it I’d wrap some inner tube strips around the contact points.
I remember this from ~25 years ago! The problem is that they don’t work at all with a ulock, only a padlock, which is convenient if it’s the only place you park and you’re guaranteed a spot, but hopeless otherwise.
deiphiz on
They have a few of these at a train station near me. Obviously nobody uses them and they’ve all been damaged too.
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#firstworldproblems 🥲
Your stores have bike racks?
That looks pretty awesome to me, a guy who can never find a bike rack of any kind, anywhere, in my local area.Â
If you feel the need to complain about this then you really need to adjust your priorities and perspective.Â
Your bike hasn’t been stolen, so it works!
You should push your bike in a bit further in though, so your rear wheel is also secured. A thief would have to cut through 3, albeit small, pieces of steel. You padlock is enshrined by the metal box. This gave pretty good protection against bolt cutters. Currently, in the Angle Grinders Era, much less, but it’ll keep honest people honest and you can safely lock up your bike with a tiny padlock, if these where installed everywhere or you knew this was going to be your only destination.
It might be over-engineered, but has a relatively simple construction and I understand how it works without reading the instruction sticker (which is probably unreadable by now).
Thief would cut through the one bit of mild steel that goes to padlock. I think it’s shit.
This gets my goat too: businesses that have been hoodwinked into buying over complicated bike stand “systems”, when most cyclists would prefer a simple inverted U-shaped stand cemented into the ground (we call these “Sheffield stands” in the UK, not sure if that’s true elsewhere…)
the bike garage at work has those. They work but scratch the crud outta the paint..
This most certainly is an over engineered bike rack, but I’d prefer this over locking my bike up on a tree, light post, street sign, handrail, or anything else that’s not a bike rack.
What would be great is if they had a regular rack next to it.
whats the box for? store stuff? does it lock too?
The paint thing would annoy me. But apparently not the OP. If I had to use it I’d wrap some inner tube strips around the contact points.
we have these in many places
[https://bikeep.com/smart-bike-parking-station/](https://bikeep.com/smart-bike-parking-station/)
I remember this from ~25 years ago! The problem is that they don’t work at all with a ulock, only a padlock, which is convenient if it’s the only place you park and you’re guaranteed a spot, but hopeless otherwise.
They have a few of these at a train station near me. Obviously nobody uses them and they’ve all been damaged too.
Keeping honest people honest.
Beats no bike rack!!
Omg smack your leg on that! Stupid and dangerous
They have this at the San Mateo County Center.