Good commercial rack for parkade?

On 7/14/10 1:26 PM, David Scheidt wrote:
They're used very often broadside, with bikes along their length.


I've seen that. Here, though, there are so few bikes used as transport,
it's rare that I'm not the only one actually using a bike rack. The
exception is a public library, where kids park their bikes.

Most places I ride don't provide any sort of bike parking. I end up
looking for the nearest pole. In the case of my grocery store, they have
an inclined ramp for chairs that has a nice rail on it, and I park on
the outside of the rail.

Kevan

Kevan Smith wrote:
:On 7/14/10 12:54 PM, Colin B. wrote:
: The other style that a friend mentioned was more like this:
: http://www.dero.com/products/campus_...mpus_rack.html
:
: I'm also curious what people think of this one, from the same manufacturer:
: http://www.dero.com/products/hi_roller/hi_roller.html

:I've never used wither of those types, but they look like they'd be
:good. Just about anything is better than a rack like this:

:http://www.commercialbicycleracks.ne...?ic=CB115-1160

These morons show their products being used wrong. Look at the
pictures of their inverted U racks. I wonder if that's just the
marketing people being stupid, or if it's reflected in their products.


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Kevan Smith writes:

On 7/14/10 1:26 PM, David Scheidt wrote:
They're used very often broadside, with bikes along their length.


I've seen that. Here, though, there are so few bikes used as
transport, it's rare that I'm not the only one actually using a bike
rack. The exception is a public library, where kids park their bikes.

Most places I ride don't provide any sort of bike parking. I end up
looking for the nearest pole. In the case of my grocery store, they
have an inclined ramp for chairs that has a nice rail on it, and I
park on the outside of the rail.

I used to do that, until some passing guy in a wheelchair told me it
made it harder for him to use the ramp.

On 7/14/10 3:35 PM, Radey Shouman wrote:
Kevan writes:

On 7/14/10 1:26 PM, David Scheidt wrote:
They're used very often broadside, with bikes along their length.


I've seen that. Here, though, there are so few bikes used as
transport, it's rare that I'm not the only one actually using a bike
rack. The exception is a public library, where kids park their bikes.

Most places I ride don't provide any sort of bike parking. I end up
looking for the nearest pole. In the case of my grocery store, they
have an inclined ramp for chairs that has a nice rail on it, and I
park on the outside of the rail.

I used to do that, until some passing guy in a wheelchair told me it
made it harder for him to use the ramp.

I worried about that, too, but the odd thing is they built the ramp
where it's not needed. There's a separate, much wider incline with a
dedicated crosswalk into the store that all the wheelchairs use. At
night, on the ramp I use to park, the 24-hour store parks its shopping
carts.

Kevan

David Scheidt wrote:

They're used very often broadside, with bikes along their length.
That turns a "seven" or 'nine" bike rack into a two or three bike
rack.

That really hacks me off.

The thing that hacks me off even more is the tendency of some
retailers to make the effort to install a bike rack, but put it so
close to the wall of the building that it can't be used to lock the
frame of a bike with full-sized wheels (except by parking the bike
sideways across the rack).

I see this stupid and obvious mistake repeated all over the place.

Chalo

On 7/14/2010 4:56 PM, Chalo Colina wrote:
David Scheidt wrote:

They're used very often broadside, with bikes along their length.
That turns a "seven" or 'nine" bike rack into a two or three bike
rack.

That really hacks me off.

The thing that hacks me off even more is the tendency of some
retailers to make the effort to install a bike rack, but put it so
close to the wall of the building that it can't be used to lock the
frame of a bike with full-sized wheels (except by parking the bike
sideways across the rack).

I see this stupid and obvious mistake repeated all over the place.

Get smaller wheels!

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Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007
I am a vehicular cyclist.

Chalo wrote:
avid Scheidt wrote:
:
: They're used very often broadside, with bikes along their length.
: That turns a "seven" or 'nine" bike rack into a two or three bike
: rack.

:That really hacks me off.

It's a defective design. Of course people use the rack in the way in
which it actually supports the bike, and not the way designer, who
proably hasn't ridden a bike since he awas 16, think it should be
used, based on a complete failure to understand how you'd like bike to not
suffer damage from the rack. That's the unavoidable flaw in the
concept. It's made worse by most of them not actualy having enough
space in the wave to get two bikes in it, so even if people are
willing to hang their bikes by the lock, you still can't get the
number of bikes in the rack the designer claimed.



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Kevan Smith writes:

On 7/14/10 3:35 PM, Radey Shouman wrote:
Kevan writes:

On 7/14/10 1:26 PM, David Scheidt wrote:
They're used very often broadside, with bikes along their length.


I've seen that. Here, though, there are so few bikes used as
transport, it's rare that I'm not the only one actually using a bike
rack. The exception is a public library, where kids park their bikes.

Most places I ride don't provide any sort of bike parking. I end up
looking for the nearest pole. In the case of my grocery store, they
have an inclined ramp for chairs that has a nice rail on it, and I
park on the outside of the rail.

I used to do that, until some passing guy in a wheelchair told me it
made it harder for him to use the ramp.

I worried about that, too, but the odd thing is they built the ramp
where it's not needed. There's a separate, much wider incline with a
dedicated crosswalk into the store that all the wheelchairs use. At
night, on the ramp I use to park, the 24-hour store parks its shopping
carts.

Perhaps the ramp was actually built to push carts up.

On Jul 12, 4:33*pm, "Colin B." wrote:
Hey all;

Looking at recommending replacement racks to my company. They have an
underground parkade from which a number of bikes have been stolen lately.
Part of the problem is that the racks are mostly of the "small loop on the
ground" style, which only allows a wheel to be locked up. What I'm looking
for are opinions on the best racks which provide the following:

1) Relatively high bike density.
2) Allow (encourage!) locking the bike FRAME to the rack with a U-lock.
3) Don't hold the weight of the bike by the wheel.
4) Don't prevent bikes with wide/knobby tires from being locked up.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Colin

CORA racks - I especially like the stainless ones as they don't mar
the bike, but the powder coated ones look good too.

Chalo wrote:
David Scheidt wrote:

They're used very often broadside, with bikes along their length.
That turns a "seven" or 'nine" bike rack into a two or three bike
rack.

That really hacks me off.

It's tempting to carry a 'retired' U-lock, and lock these bikes to the
rack with it. So secure that the owner can't get his own bike back,
without the aggravation of breaking a lock.

Colin