| Re: Bike Racks?
Well I guess that settles it.
Bob
"Luigi de Guzman" <luigi12081@cox.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:28:17 -0400, Frank Krygowski
> <frkrygow@mousepotato.com> wrote:
>
> >Bob Newman wrote:
> >
> >> We are trying to free up a little room in the house and I want to get
the
> >> bikes better organized. I've seen these racks that stack two bikes
> >> vertically but I'm not sure I'm up to lifting the top one on & off
> >> regularly. How are these hooks that let you hang the bikes on the wall
by
> >> the wheel. To us untrained people it seems like a lot of strain on the
> >> wheel. Can they cause any damage to the bike?
> >
> >We have had six bikes hanging that way since about 1980. No problems.
> >
> >In fact: One evening my brother brought his two kids over. They were
> >about 10 or 12, I'd say. We were upstairs, the boys were bored playing
> >in the basement, and I heard one say "Nick, you'd better cut it out!"
> >
> >I went downstairs to find Nick using one of the bikes as a swing!
> >_Still_ no problems.
>
> When I was at Cambridge, the University installed some meat-hook style
> bikeracks near the History Faculty building. This was meant to
> address the chronic shortage of bike parking spaces.
>
> Many of us in the History department began lobbying aggressively for
> their removal and replacement with more conventional Sheffield stands,
> citing the difficulty (and mess) of having to hang up your bike,
> potentially dripping with rain and muck and whatnot (it is Cambridge
> after all. It rains. a lot.) onto a meathook. That, and a lot of
> people--not least the dons themselves--still use majestically heavy
> bicycles to get around, and hoisting 20-some kg of bicycle over your
> head is no fun when you're running to a lecture.
>
> So the Faculty began petitioning the university authorities. "Bike
> racks, not meat hooks!" went the slogan. As far as I'm aware, the
> campaign failed, and the meathooks are still there, in the passage
> between the Seeley and the new Divinity building. And as far as I'm
> aware, they're always full.
>
> -Luigi
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