Staple racks have some downsides: to be optimally efficient as bike racks they have to be their own island, so they take up a lot of footprint in a site plan. If placing this island in a drivable zone they need protection. If this island is in a walkable zone close to a building entrance it could impact accessibility or just the natural approaches to the entrance. Some of those concerns are shared with other similar bike rack designs. There’s nothing inherently wrong with a staple rack aesthetically, especially considering it’s going to be covered with turn sandwich barnacles in 90% of the final uses.
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The bane of bike rack aestheticists and architectural renderers every where
in their world it’s racks like these with rendered impossible geo chainless bikes magically not all falling over
so i haven’t been a (professional) regular bike mechanic in over 3 years and haven’t been a (professional) any kind of bike mechanic in a year and a half. i sold my uncle in law (is that just an uncle? i do really like the guy) my mtb to make room for a new prodeal and it arrived and the front (last gen shiny lever body xt) brake lever won’t move.
when i shipped it there was a slight kink in the hose where it exited the lever. still worked better than the rear and had been that way for many rides without incident. he tried playing with the free stroke/reach adjust, resetting the pistons, making sure the lever had no physical obstructions, etc. still enough room to fit the rotor and adjust so it doesn’t really rub.
what could be doing this? bike was pretty overpacked and there are no signs of excessive abuse at the hands of fedex.
I’d like to see fancy 3d renderings of new office buildings with the bike rack out front filled with rusty magnas and stripped bare trek frames
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3d scan some typical bike racks and offer package of shitty bikes tm to archibros?
also scan some shitbox cars so it’s not wall to wall porsche 944s (for some reason) {i mean teh 944 if pretty much a shit box, but you know}
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It’s a good looking shit box.
I’m partial to the B6 A4, looks like a generic sedan but slightly nicer in renderings
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Make bike racks that look like shitty old abandoned bikes.
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Make bike racks out of shitty old abandoned bikes?
I think the key would be to design the racks so they end up acting like greebles with respect to the overall architectural design.
Like the area surrounding the racks should have much less surface detail, with the jumble of bikes adding some texture.
The classic example:
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Make bike racks that look like no parking signs and stair hand rails.
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Yeah, or a bunch of parking meters.
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i for one would park my bike on a super star destroyer
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Yeah I mean I understand the move to electronic paid parking stations but I love when cities keep them “as a courtesy to cyclists” with the sticker on them. Best bike racks
Agreed, they are so sturdy and no nonsense. Best non rack bike rack ever.
How do you feel about these locking add-ons they attach to old parking meter poles?
I never really looked at the bolts very closely, are they hard to remove?
I think the answer is “it depends”
Seen a few that looked trivial to remove with tools.
Karl knows what’s up. reclaims old locks for home bike parking. (this is one of my favourite post parking meter, non multi bike rack styles. Easy to stop bikes from falling over and quite secure)