AlabamaJoined: 15 Sep 2006Posts: 303Location: Central District
Note to product designers everywhere:
Stop making everything look like a damn iPod. Cheap plastic shells do not equal good design. Remember when they got all "futuristic" in the 1970s?
Note to any guy with a six foot step ladder:
Free bikes at the plastic 'shroom.
(bring them to the big yellow joint.)
coupdegrace
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:03 pm
Joined: 01 Nov 2006Posts: 168
Finn wrote:
Note to any guy with a six foot step ladder:
Free bikes at the plastic 'shroom.
This parking device should have video surveilance cameras,
but I would feel more comfortable using it,
if I could also lock my bike to it.
langston
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:45 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
coupdegrace wrote:
Finn wrote:
Note to any guy with a six foot step ladder:
Free bikes at the plastic 'shroom.
This parking device should have video surveilance cameras,
but I would feel more comfortable using it,
if I could also lock my bike to it.
'cause then when the power goes out not only will you get to climb it to get your bike down, you'll have to bring a hacksaw with you.
coupdegrace
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:22 pm
Joined: 01 Nov 2006Posts: 168
langston wrote:
coupdegrace wrote:
Finn wrote:
Note to any guy with a six foot step ladder:
Free bikes at the plastic 'shroom.
This parking device should have video surveilance cameras,
but I would feel more comfortable using it,
if I could also lock my bike to it.
'cause then when the power goes out not only will you get to climb it to get your bike down, you'll have to bring a hacksaw with you.
Good Point! But I did say "if 'I' could lock my bike to it" not that 'it' locks my bike to 'it'. Meaning that I would use my own lock to lock my bike to it. Then when the power goes out all I would need to do is borrow the ladder from the guy who won't be needing it because he will be too busy gaining entry by breaking the plate glass windows of the businesses he will be looting!
Spealunker
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:54 pm
sargeJoined: 08 Sep 2005Posts: 308Location: Fort Bragg NC
sees a tree full of front wheels and a mini bus full of bike frames
coupdegrace
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:09 pm
Joined: 01 Nov 2006Posts: 168
Spealunker wrote:
sees a tree full of front wheels and a mini bus full of bike frames
Your vision is very clear!
I envision improvements to this design that would allow the bicycle's frame to be securely locked with the cyclist's U-lock.
Finn
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:55 pm
AlabamaJoined: 15 Sep 2006Posts: 303Location: Central District
Spealunker wrote:
sees a tree full of front wheels and a mini bus full of bike frames
...and him that sat on the bus was Death, and Hell followed with him.
And a great wail came from the tree, as those who saw it were lost in perdition.
The sky was as sackcloth and they rent their clothes.
And I heard, as it were, the sound thunder,
As those that took from the tree were held in iniquity,
And their descendants bore the mark of Bike Theives
for seventy-sevenfold years.
-Revolutions, 49:16
Alastair
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:26 am
Joined: 12 Jan 2006Posts: 475Location: U-district/Ravenna
coupdegrace wrote:
I envision improvements to this design that would allow the bicycle's frame to be securely locked with the cyclist's U-lock.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you have to use your own lock anyway, then there really isn't much point to this, other than watching your bike ascend and descend in slow motion. Kind of like those old cassette tape decks that had slow motion doors when you opened them.
Alex
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:06 am
Joined: 18 May 2006Posts: 3128Location: Roosevelt
There is a point. It uses a small amount of sidewalk footprint while holding a lot of bicycles. It is a good idea for high density areas with limited bicycle parking areas such as downtown or college campuses.
I do think that it needs a loop that you can run a lock through.
alex
coupdegrace
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:21 am
Joined: 01 Nov 2006Posts: 168
And you can leave your peripheral shit i.e. panniers, lights, etc. attached to your bike without fear of them getting lifted, except by the guy with the 6' ladder. Also it appears to be a dry storage area, good for the bikes and the peds below waiting for a bus, taxi or chauffeur. However dirty, greasy, rain water could drip onto and ruin an Armani suit or Vera Wang dress. Damn cyclists!
zuvembi
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:16 am
Joined: 24 Jul 2005Posts: 942Location: Little Addis Ababa
^^^ awesome (finn's post)
Alastair wrote:
coupdegrace wrote:
I envision improvements to this design that would allow the bicycle's frame to be securely locked with the cyclist's U-lock.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you have to use your own lock anyway, then there really isn't much point to this, other than watching your bike ascend and descend in slow motion. Kind of like those old cassette tape decks that had slow motion doors when you opened them.
Well, not the benefit that they're trying to sell, but I wouldn't mind it myself. I envision that it would be fucking lot harder to steal my bike if it was u-locked fifteen feet off the ground than just u-locked to a post.
edit: Plus not bothering to take off blinkies and what-not as mentioned by others.
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