Vertical Bicycle Rack

[BSRU]

Work has just installed a new bicycle rack, the seem to have gone for the cheapest and most stupid design ever. I thought they had not finished it but turns out that's it, looks the wrong way up and no roof.

Similar to this one:-
http://www.bikedocksolutions.com/product/23.aspx

 

[Kestevan]

Could be worse......

Where I work we have the exclusive use of either a lamp-post (which is prone to being reversed into by lost artic drivers trying to turn round in the business park) or a wooden fence post.

 

[BSRU]

Could be worse......

Where I work we have the exclusive use of either a lamp-post (which is prone to being reversed into by lost artic drivers trying to turn round in the business park) or a wooden fence post.

Yes it could be worse but considering they have actually gone out and bought a new rack you would expect they might have asked the people who are going to use what they think.

 

[DrSquirrel]

Have you actually asked them about this already?

 

[HLaB]

Work has just installed a new bicycle rack, the seem to have gone for the cheapest and most stupid design ever. I thought they had not finished it but turns out that's it, looks the wrong way up and no roof.

Similar to this one:-
http://www.bikedocks...product/23.aspx

My flat has a similar design in the bike locker, its takes up less space and is easy to use the saddle stays dry. The Bike locker in Fife have the completely vertical design. Both types unfortunately are pretty poor for locking the bike to, I'm glad they are secure. My tactic is to Dlock the front wheel and put a kyrtoflex cable through the frame to the Dlock. With the comletely verticle type I can just get the Dlock through a metal bracket and the frame; the wrong sise lock it wouldn't work. As I said both are secure; I wouldn't want to leave the bike in a unsecured area like that though.

 

[BSRU]

Unfortunately the person who made the decision is a sub-contractor, as in the buildings are looked after by another company, and does not really care. I have emailed that person plus the person in our company who has overall responsibility for the sub-contractors who look after all the sites in Europe. I have pointed out the lack of roof, the health and safety aspects of trying to lift a heavy bike onto the rack, the fact one cyclists here has a damaged wrist from a accident and is not physically capable of lifting their bike onto it.

The reason for the new rack is that they are moving it to a more secure location which is not used for parking cars so that they can remove the old bike shed to free up the three spaces it currently takes.

 

[HLaB]

Unfortunately the person who made the decision is a sub-contractor, as in the buildings are looked after by another company, and does not really care. I have emailed that person plus the person in our company who has overall responsibility for the sub-contractors who look after all the sites in Europe. I have pointed out the lack of roof, the health and safety aspects of trying to lift a heavy bike onto the rack, the fact one cyclists here has a damaged wrist from a accident and is not physically capable of lifting their bike onto it.

The reason for the new rack is that they are moving it to a more secure location which is not used for parking cars so that they can remove the old bike shed to free up the three spaces it currently takes.

I would't worry about health & safety, they are surprisingly easy to roll you're bike into but what does worry me is how somebody can think a building without a roof is more secure, especially given the difficulty I've found in locking to it.

 

[gaz]

We have similar at work. It is nearly impossible to lock your bike to them securly. They can be dismantled with a spanner!

 

[BSRU]

I would't worry about health & safety, they are surprisingly easy to roll you're bike into but what does worry me is how somebody can think a building without a roof is more secure, especially given the difficulty I've found in locking to it.

Lifting a 22kg bike is not easy at the best of times but trying manoeuvre it at a considerable height seems a recipe for disaster. Health and safety was mentioned as the sub-contractor worries about things like that.

 

[BSRU]

We have similar at work. It is nearly impossible to lock your bike to them securly. They can be dismantled with a spanner!

Let's hope someone steals the bike rack then.

 

[HLaB]

Lifting a 22kg bike is not easy at the best of times but trying manoeuvre it at a considerable height seems a recipe for disaster. Health and safety was mentioned as the sub-contractor worries about things like that.

I'm not strong above the waist but I've found them easier than I thought with my heaviest of bikes, but you're right a lot of folk/ firms are H&S concious rather than security concious :-( and may of paid more attention to that. The other thing I've found it too easy to wheel the bike up with the panniers on but its not easy to get the panniers off when its vertical

 

[marinyork]

I'm not strong above the waist but I've found them easier than I thought with my heaviest of bikes, but you're right a lot of folk/ firms are H&S concious rather than security concious :-( and may of paid more attention to that. The other thing I've found it too easy to wheel the bike up with the panniers on but its not easy to get the panniers off when its vertical

I think it's just a bit odd assuming everyone will be the same. I can manuever bikes easier than some other people but found the less steep versions of these I've used very cumbersome indeed. You could just fit a D lock through a particular bit of the frame and the slanted stand though. The basic conclusion is that these sorts of things should never be used unless it's in some very secure environment.

 

[HLaB]

I think it's just a bit odd assuming everyone will be the same. I can manuever bikes easier than some other people but found the less steep versions of these I've used very cumbersome indeed. You could just fit a D lock through a particular bit of the frame and the slanted stand though. The basic conclusion is that these sorts of things should never be used unless it's in some very secure environment.

Sorry for coming acrross like that, I find its more to do with technique than strength because I've not got any excluding that the basic conclusion that these things are near useless in a unsecured environment (my bigger concern) is spot on.

 

[davefb]

Lifting a 22kg bike is not easy at the best of times but trying manoeuvre it at a considerable height seems a recipe for disaster. Health and safety was mentioned as the sub-contractor worries about things like that.

it even mentions on the website about the H&S implications!

i love how the application of 'some blooming common sense' ends up people having to say 'ahh h&s' , by which you mean

'right, if i take my back out lifting the bike, then i'm sueing your ass'..

as you say, its the only thing they worry about .

 

[taxing]

This would really piss me off, partly because I have trouble lifting my bike and lowering it down ramps, that kind of thing, but mainly because I like to keep things in the basket while I'm at work. Nothing valuable, but I don't want all my junk falling out of my basket!