Getting here to Öpik conference centre was a trip through car dominated hell
All over Tallinn there are these app controlled bike racks. But I don’t want to have to download an app to park a bike. And I don’t think it even fits a Birdy, let alone a cargo bike. And the regular racks are poor…
Bike parking: build these. Just these. That’s *it*. These stands can accommodate any type of bike. And you can lock the frame to them.
Don’t build ones where only the wheel goes in. Don’t build anything where the mechanism can go wrong.
I know this is boring. But IT WORKS!
Edit: to those going “they can be cut and taped and bikes stolen” - I know. Do I care? No, not really. Tell me a type of rack that can’t be cut with an angle grinder!
@jon Around here (Rosmalen, Netherlands), we have a lot of different bicycle racks - these ones, but also low wheelbenders, wheelbender pillars with a loop for locking a cable lock to, etc....
The staple racks are the only ones I see people consistently using as designed.
More curiously, when they are all in use, people tend to just extrapolate the parking area off to the side in a perfect line, where there are no racks. Whereas with wheelbenders it often seems to get a bit messier.
(The parking extension thing is a generally interesting phenomenon, I've also observed it elsewhere before, in a place where there were no bike racks to begin with, just a large oddly-shaped open space!)
@jon Oh, correction: the other type I see used as-designed are the two-level stackable bike parking racks, which have a very long slot to fit your bike wheel into, and a wheelbender at the end. But those are generally only economical at train stations and such, so I consider them a special case.
