Bike Shed Design Competition

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OP
OP
mickle

mickle

innit
 

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
Location
South Manchester
The 'birds nest' type one looks the best - weather protection, doors. So long as there is space/proper locking inside. That's the coolest IMHO
 
It may just be me but they all look rather horrid. I would not like to see any really.

Basically it is a bus stop without seats in and with something to chain your bike to. Personally I would like a few lockers to put your bike gear in so you don't have to carry it around but perhaps I am asking too much.

This is a bit easier on the eye....



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summerdays

Cycling in the sun
Location
Bristol
I like different bits of different designs whilst not one of them stands out miles above the others ... some don't look as if they would support the bike very well - which surely should be the first consideration being able to lock it safely and securely, others not sure if they stand wouldn't obscure anyone tampering with the bike.
 

XmisterIS

Purveyor of fine nonsense
It may just be me but they all look rather horrid. I would not like to see any really.

Basically it is a bus stop without seats in and with something to chain your bike to. Personally I would like a few lockers to put your bike gear in so you don't have to carry it around but perhaps I am asking too much.

This is a bit easier on the eye....



DP_Structures_Ltd_Design_and_build_town_centre_bus_shelters_1.jpg

I like that a lot. I don't like any of the ones in the link in the OP's post!
 

dellzeqq

pre-talced and mighty
Location
SW2
the whole thing is fantastically embarrassing. The Dream Studio shed doesn't allow for locking both wheels, the projecting bar is a lever that can be used to destroy the shed, and rainwater tips down on to the back or front end of the bike (architects are terminally worried by rainwater and would rather insert red-hot pokers where the sun doesn't shine than draw a downpipe). The Atmos one has a ply frame because steek is unsustainable, but then has a stainless steel floor....? and, like a couple of the others, is susceptible to racking, which will do the connections to the polycarbonate roof no good at all. Quinn and Studio Meda fail the rainwater test, and Quinn doesn't have a convenient way of protecting both wheels. I quite like the Meda one (again - racking....) but the only one that really does the job it's supposed to do is the Tugela Gino effort which looks like something bought from a catalogue for a shopping precinct in Letchworth or Radlett or even (whispers) Basingstoke, although I presume it's supposed to be 'ironic'.

So - if this is the best, heavens preserve us from the worst. Fortunately Broxap make decent, robust shelters for not much money.
 

palinurus

Velo, boulot, dodo
Location
Watford
Atmos gets it, the other ones don't look good. I've no idea which one might be best for parking your bike though.
 

thomas

the tank engine
Location
Woking/Norwich
They all look rubbish. I'd much rather the Norwich bike shed. It's a boring red brick building, with a padlocked door, which has to be opened by a member of staff. Inside is water tight, and has normal bike racks (not wheel insert ones).
 

Norm

Guest
They all look rubbish.
Me too.

They all look like someone should have removed them from the drawing board a few hours, if not weeks, sooner, to stop the "designer" playing with them.

The best one I use is a piece of armco barrier in a car park, D lock round the upright and cable lock round the barrier for the front wheel, and I'm sorted. It doesn't take any extra space, as a barrier would be there anyway, and no-one spent hours ****ing themselves off over a screen to produce it.
 

threebikesmcginty

Corn Fed Hick...
Location
...on the slake
They all look like someone should have removed them from the drawing board a few hours, if not weeks, sooner, to stop the "designer" playing with them.

The best one I use is a piece of armco barrier in a car park, D lock round the upright and cable lock round the barrier for the front wheel, and I'm sorted. It doesn't take any extra space, as a barrier would be there anyway, and no-one spent hours ****ing themselves off over a screen to produce it.

Yebbut you're an accountant aren't you Norm and therefore have no soul. Show you a set of year end accounts or a balance sheet and you'll be frottering yourself silly but a nice piece of design and you're lost - Beancountersville is a cold place to be.

:smile: ;)
 
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