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Featured Project : Elevacion - Bicycle Rack
We all know what this is, yet the best part of this bike rack design is what it's bound to become: a seat, a playground, a hiding place, and obviously a really slippery slide for small toys and daring boys. Here form follows function, and function follows form. Check out another rendering after the jump!
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Comments
No! That is an absolutely horrible design, you are only allowed to lock your front wheel?
its not really useful as a bike rack though, locking your first wheel doesn't keep the bike safe. :-)
but i LOVE the pink bike. :D
too bad it'd fail miserably in the scope of anti-theft. a well designed bike rack needs to allow for easy access to locking the frame and as much of the bicycle as possible using standard U/D-Locks
clearly the person who designed this doesn't bike, especially not in urban areas. almost no u-locks won't fit around those huge arcs, and it sits so low to the ground you're only able to lock up one wheel unless you have a cable lock (which is a pain if using two locks, and not secure if only using a cable lock). it takes up a large footprint when full of bikes so it's only really practical for a park which is fine since that's clearly what it was designed for, although most racks are linear since they are placed near roads/sidewalks and this would have to sit inside the park. generally impractical. but pretty.
Are people going to know it's a bike rack? Excellent sculptural form.
any biker would obviously pull their bike in backwards. Then the rack would be more functional! U lock working and all!
Plus, the uses cancel each other out. If someone is sitting there, you can't lock your bike. If your bike is locked, no one can sit. Parking meters and sign posts do their day jobs just fine with any number of bikes locked - securely - to their poles.
It looks great, but calling it a bike rack does not make it one. No matter if you park your bike front first, or the opposite... the bike won't stand still! BTW... if people did fill it with bikes and their locks, than all the other functions are nulled.
venetia -- and then the bike front wheel will flop around, and any bike without a kickstand (which is most of them) will fall over, especially if locked with a cable lock. It looks from the rendering like this would ONLY work with an extra-long u-lock.
Unusable bike locks are worse than none at all, because then we cyclists get harassed or our bikes impounded for ignoring the poorly designed bike rack and locking to something more trustworthy.
It would be an excellent design challenge to actually *improve* on the rectangular steel pipe that one sees embedded in sidewalks in truly bike-friendly areas.