A bike parking design competition for Puerto Rico

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1. Nicholas Hardrath says

   As much as I love the concept I like the idea of the seating and bike parking being 2 separate pieces but close together. The 2 issues with this are A: grease will inevitably get on the “seating” part and cover someone’s clothes and B: gives thieves more area to use crowbars/tools to break locks.

   July 27, 2012, 2:21 pm Reply
2. Mike says

   This was designed by someone who doesn’t know how to lock a bike. Better screenshot of the fail here: http://www.n-punto.com/bench-rack-26/br26_1/ . Even ignoring that issue, there’s nothing to lock the wheels to.

   Once again we have a designer with zero domain area knowledge who spent hours artfully rendering a design that 30 minutes of building a prototype out of PVC pipe and 10 minutes with a prospective user would have revealed the shortcomings of. What is it about bicycles that attracts these people like flies?

   July 27, 2012, 4:51 pm Reply
3. James Thomas says

   Yeah, locking to the headtube, or worse yet under the headtube, is definitely not ideal. If I were to use this rack, I would probably lock my bike to the side without benches and treat it like an inverted-U rack.

   July 27, 2012, 5:16 pm Reply
   • Andy says

     Remove front wheel, slide forks out of lock, congrats on your free bike!

     Like most hybrid designs, it’s the worst of both things it has combined. You not only get a bike rack that you can’t sufficiently lock up a frame and wheel to, but you also get a lousy bench while squeezed between two dirty bikes while you can’t sit next to your friend.

     July 27, 2012, 10:22 pm Reply
4. jack says

   That’s a pretty interesting idea. Would love if my city added something like this where I could sit and hook my bike to.

   August 1, 2012, 12:55 pm Reply

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