Posted on October 9, 2008 by Karl McCracken
I found this today over at Copenhagenize. It’s an innovative bike rack, but with built-in security measures:
What you do is wheel your bike into the guides, and then drop the cover down onto the saddle, thereby securing it. You lock this in place with your own lock. The idea is that the bike can’t be [...]
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Posted on October 8, 2008 by Karl McCracken
Yanek from over at Bicyclog sent me these pictures from a 1970’s cycling book he has – The New Complete Book of Bicycling, by Eugene A. Sloane.
Take a look at this – it’s an early model Kryptonite lock! You can use your own padlock with it, as the body of the lock protects the padlock’s [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2008 by Karl McCracken
These images are from the Bicyclog. When I first saw them, thought it was just a piece of street sculpture (seems to be a bit of a theme today). But no – it turns out that it’s a warning to bike thieves:
There’s another sign on the back of the bike too, and apparently they read,
We [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2008 by Karl McCracken
This via the excellent Copenhagenize:
As part of the efforts to get more people cycling in New York, the city’s having a competition to design their future bike racks. They’ve now got a shortlist of ten:
Now I’m a HUGE fan of anything that’ll get more people cycling. But a couple of these designs give me real [...]
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