Bike Storage

[thunderblue]

This article is a bit old - but this is what we need.

Has Japan designed the world's best bike shed? | David Munk | Environment | guardian.co.uk

 

[carpetbagger]

nice if you put in a wreck and get a pro connect s dual drive out

 

[Mussels]

Love it, especially the little escalator to get up the ramp. I don't think it would work here because...
1. It can't take wide tyres, if it did then bikes with narrow tyre would probably fall over.
2. It costs £13 a month, why spend that when railings are free and legal.
3. There won't be many of them and nobody rides a bike to park it a long way from where they work.

If I was a train commuter I would be tempted to keep a cheap bike in it to ride between the station and the office and then chain it to the railings, that kind of defeats the object though.

 

[flecc]

I remember seeing this along time ago on TV, a brilliant solution but obviously hugely expensive to install. Even in London with it's doubling of cycling in the last ten years it might not be viable as a commercial prospect, and I doubt other cities and towns would have enough custom for it to pay.

I'm sure most would still park on the cheap rather than pay the high fees of this as a commercial solution. Local authority subsidy could reverse that though.
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[Alex728]

only 20% of Japan is habitable - the rest is wilderness - full of mountains / volcanoes so earthquakes and landslides are a risk, and surrounding the mountains are forests containing large and most unfriendly bears!

so the cost of this contraption is offset by the need to conserve space as much as possible..