Work place cycle parking recommendations?

[Sara_H]

My work place is undergoing some construction work, which is going to mean replacing the current bike parking.

It's become clear to me that no one in the planning department has the vaguest idea of what represents good quality cycle parking. After months of frustrating emails, I may finally get to speak to someone in person so that I can show them whats good and whats bad.

My minimum request is Sheffield stands in a secure enclosed shed or cage, covered from the elements if possible.

Does anyone else have any recommendations as to what requests I should be making, or better still, links to planning/trade guidance as to what constitute good quality bike parking. As an example, a few years ago I successfully campaigned to get some wheel benders replaced with sheffield stands, but to my mind the stands have been placed too close together - any guidance on spacing etc would be welcome.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[SquareDaff]

Can only tell you what we have at my place and hope it helps.

A compound with a covered steel bike rack - bolted down into concrete. Shackle points on the rack are high and low to accomodate most bikes. Entry to the compound via key only. One key on reception. Anyone else with a key is registered. All keys returned by leavers.

Compund itself placed in a visible section of the car park. Non visible (in our case the rear) is a brick wall (to prevent out of sight cutting of bolts) with metal fence sections to the front and sides. Grow hawthorn bushes up the sides to make it particularly painful to sneak up the sides. Cover the compound with CCTV. And finally, in our case, have security include the bike compounds on his walk of the entire perimter fence.

Also here, we've "teamed up" with the other businesses on our estate to create an "early warning" system If someone is spotted acting suspiciously or seen somewhere they shouldn't be then an email goes out to each companies known cyclists and security.

Just to add - bike compound is not right against the external fence.

 

[Sharky]

My firm installed this one:-
http://www.bikedocksolutions.com/prod_name/bds-20-space-cycle-enclosure.aspx

We have about 300+ staff in the building, of which there are about 20 cyclists, but an average day is probably no more then 5.
The door has a combination lock on it, so no need to allocate keys and in the 12 months or so it has been up, no problems reported.

Cheers Keith

 

[glasgowcyclist]

My work place is undergoing some construction work, which is going to mean replacing the current bike parking.

It's become clear to me that no one in the planning department has the vaguest idea of what represents good quality cycle parking. After months of frustrating emails, I may finally get to speak to someone in person so that I can show them whats good and whats bad.

My minimum request is Sheffield stands in a secure enclosed shed or cage, covered from the elements if possible.

Does anyone else have any recommendations as to what requests I should be making, or better still, links to planning/trade guidance as to what constitute good quality bike parking. As an example, a few years ago I successfully campaigned to get some wheel benders replaced with sheffield stands, but to my mind the stands have been placed too close together - any guidance on spacing etc would be welcome.

Thanks in advance for any help.

This link has a lot of useful information on best practice (and worst). It should cover your questions on ideal spacing too, nearly every workplace gets this bit wrong.

GC

 

[Sara_H]

Thanks everyone, @glasgowcyclist, that's the kind of thing I was after thank you.

We've got a bit of a mixed bag at the minute, a mix of Sheffield stands and wheel benders, devided between two cages, one brick built store and one area that's open to the public.
The best area is about to be demolished as part of the building work, its been quite frustrating as the project managers don't seem to view the cycle parking as a necessity. I've been sending emails out for months to no avail, and have come to the conclusion that no one really knows what they're doing!