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Old October 7th 07, 12:53 PM posted to uk.rec.motorcycles,uk.rec.cycling
The Older Gentleman[_2_]
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Default Cycle bays - waste of space?

On Friday, I had to pop up to town for a lunch appointment in Kensington
High Street.

Of course, as the councils have been ripping out motorcycle bays, or
making them smaller, and as the ones that are left are filled with
scooterbois who don't know how to park, finding a space is rather
tricky.

What intrigued me was how down the centre of KHS, they'd installed cycle
parking, with those gigantic great metal rails to chain bicycles to. OK,
good idea.

Except the rails are set about six feet apart, and each rail 'contains'
precisely two bicycles, one on each side, because (I suppose) if
someone's already chained their bicycle to the rail, chaining a second
one on the same side is rather tricky.

In short, what a ****ing waste of space. Bleeding acres of space that
could be used for disabled parking, or bus bays, or (yes) a motorcycle
bay or two would be nice, in order to accommodate a very few dozen
politically correct bicycles.

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



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Old October 7th 07, 01:05 PM posted to uk.rec.motorcycles,uk.rec.cycling
steve auvache
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Default Cycle bays - waste of space?

In article 1i5m5tc.1s27lum15gp188N%chateau.murray.takethisou
..com, The Older Gentleman
writes

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


Give your man Boris a shout, he has managed to pack half a dozen away
where no one can see them so he should know.


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Old October 7th 07, 01:56 PM posted to uk.rec.motorcycles,uk.rec.cycling
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Default Cycle bays - waste of space?

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
(The Older Gentleman) saying
something like:

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


Bury the Town Councillors bum up.
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Old October 7th 07, 04:19 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
Marc Brett
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Default Cycle bays - waste of space?

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:20:53 +0100, Membrane
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?


How about a more efficient way to park motorcycles?:
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-imag.../03/05/ch1.jpg


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.

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Old October 7th 07, 05:12 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
Ekul Namsob
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Default Cycle bays - waste of space?

Marc Brett wrote:

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.


That's a tremendously good idea. Let's organise it.

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Old October 7th 07, 05:26 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
vernon
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Default Cycle bays - waste of space?


"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.......


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Old October 7th 07, 05:37 PM posted to uk.rec.motorcycles,uk.rec.cycling
Rob Morley
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Default Cycle bays - waste of space?

In article , Grimly
Curmudgeon
says...

Bury the Town Councillors bum up.

But then they'll still be able to talk local politics.

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Old October 7th 07, 06:02 PM posted to uk.rec.motorcycles,uk.rec.cycling
doetnietcomputeren
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Default Cycle bays - waste of space?

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/

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