Cycle bays - waste of space?

doetnietcomputeren wrote:

The Older Gentleman wrote:


There's got to be way of using the space to hold more bicycles
securely in the given area. Hasn't there?

Amsterdam seems to have solved it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doesnotcompute/190220421/

Is that the one by the cental station?

It's always been rammed full of bikes on the occasions I've walked past
it.

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Dan L wrote:

There's got to be way of using the space to hold more bicycles
securely in the given area. Hasn't there?

Amsterdam seems to have solved it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doesnotcompute/190220421/

Is that the one by the cental station?

Aye, tis that.

It's always been rammed full of bikes on the occasions I've walked past
it.

Indeed. For those cloggies who commute by train, it's fairly common to
have two bikes. One at home station and one at destination station, so
as not to have to fill the train with bikes.

--
Dnc

doetnietcomputeren wrote:

Dan L wrote:

There's got to be way of using the space to hold more bicycles
securely in the given area. Hasn't there?

Amsterdam seems to have solved it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doesnotcompute/190220421/

Is that the one by the cental station?

Aye, tis that.

It's always been rammed full of bikes on the occasions I've walked
past it.

Indeed. For those cloggies who commute by train, it's fairly common
to have two bikes. One at home station and one at destination
station, so as not to have to fill the train with bikes.

My impression of cyclists in Amsterdam was they were silent killers.
Nearly go mowed down on several occasions.

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vernon wrote:

"Marc Brett" wrote in message
...

I've always thought it'd be a good idea to do a critical mass type of
thing where zillions of bicycles park en masse in car parking bays, one
per bay, having bought valid tickets, etc. Then sit back and video the
results. As an art installatio, it ranks right up there with laying
down green carpet and potted plants in the same parking bays.

Your cunning plan falls apart at the buying valid tickets stage. They are
valid only for cars.......

Are they? Do you have any evidence for that? I ask as I've never
checked.

Cheers,
Luke


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doetnietcomputeren wrote:

Dan L wrote:

There's got to be way of using the space to hold more bicycles
securely in the given area. Hasn't there?

Amsterdam seems to have solved it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doesnotcompute/190220421/

Is that the one by the cental station?

Indeed. For those cloggies who commute by train, it's fairly common to
have two bikes. One at home station and one at destination station, so
as not to have to fill the train with bikes.

And the more pre-1940 they look, the better!

--
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doetnietcomputeren wrote:

Dan L wrote:

There's got to be way of using the space to hold more bicycles
securely in the given area. Hasn't there?

Amsterdam seems to have solved it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doesnotcompute/190220421/

Is that the one by the cental station?

Indeed. For those cloggies who commute by train, it's fairly common to
have two bikes. One at home station and one at destination station, so
as not to have to fill the train with bikes.

And the more pre-1940 they look, the better!

Pre-1940 bikes in the Netherlands? I think not:

"Where's my bike?"

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Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:
There's got to be way of using the space to hold more bicycles
securely in the given area. Hasn't there?

Amsterdam seems to have solved it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doesnotcompute/190220421/

Is that the one by the cental station?

Indeed. For those cloggies who commute by train, it's fairly common to
have two bikes. One at home station and one at destination station, so
as not to have to fill the train with bikes.

And the more pre-1940 they look, the better!

Pre-1940 bikes in the Netherlands? I think not:

"Where's my bike?"

Heh. The first area I lived in was a sailing/holiday area that attracted
lots of non-cloggies. The cloggy kids would taunt something along the
lines of "does your granddad still hve my granddad's bike".

--
Dnc

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ogden
typed
doetnietcomputeren wrote:

Indeed. For those cloggies who commute by train, it's fairly common to
have two bikes. One at home station and one at destination station, so
as not to have to fill the train with bikes.

And the more pre-1940 they look, the better!

Pre-1940 bikes in the Netherlands? I think not:

"Where's my bike?"

That's exactly the point. AIUI, cloggies are rather proud of old bikes
for precisely that reason. Or, at least, the cloggies I've known have
been.

--
ogden
sv650 & rgv250

doetnietcomputeren wrote:

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:
There's got to be way of using the space to hold more bicycles
securely in the given area. Hasn't there?

Amsterdam seems to have solved it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doesnotcompute/190220421/

Is that the one by the cental station?

Indeed. For those cloggies who commute by train, it's fairly common to
have two bikes. One at home station and one at destination station, so
as not to have to fill the train with bikes.

And the more pre-1940 they look, the better!

Pre-1940 bikes in the Netherlands? I think not:

"Where's my bike?"

Heh. The first area I lived in was a sailing/holiday area that attracted
lots of non-cloggies. The cloggy kids would taunt something along the
lines of "does your granddad still hve my granddad's bike".

Allegedly, when the Cloggies play the Boxheads at footie, one Cloggie
chant is "Grandma wants her bicycle back."

Can any of our tame cloggies confirm?


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