Simple Projects - A Simple Bike Rack

Bicycle Rodeos | A Simple Bike Rack

This design was developed using a time-honored principle: watch what people use and give them something very much like it. We noticed that many bicyclists in downtown Missoula, Montana, locked up to railings next to buildings or to posts that hold parking meters or street signs. Cyclists often used these devices even when there were bike racks nearby. Typcal reasons included:

• security (the common bike rack designs didn’t allow convenient use of high-security “U” locks, for example);
• convenience (racks often weren’t located right where they were needed); • ease of use (locking to a railing was easier than figuring out a complicated rack) and
• safety (typical “wheel-bender” bike racks that hold the front or rear wheel are feared by cyclists who value their bikes).

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