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The Evolution Of Bike Racks
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Nice cross section but it misses the hitching post / ring style.
I like the 50s style “comb” but hate the inverted u and anything else that doesn’t stop the bike falling over.
I like the post and ring racks too. Top 3 styles for sure.
I don’t like them, the bikes always fall over and theyre so low density.
Hmmm, I could see that being more of a pain in high traffic areas. Around here, I usually see them as a single post outside a gas station and I only occasionally have to share. Upside down U shapes made of playground pipe and embedded in the sidewalk seem to be the current trend around here for new racks. What do new racks tend to look like in your area?
In my area, new construction has the "wave" style -- which is basically the U shape but with more loops -- to satisfy the minimum 2 bicycle parking from the latest California Building Code. In the public right of way, I see a lot of U shapes, but they're sometimes oriented the "wrong" way for getting two bikes parked.
That is, the U shape is oriented along the sidewalk, meaning that two bikes parked would have to be perpendicular to the road, extending into the sidewalk. Whereas if they turned the U shape so it's visible up or down the road, then bikes could park parallel to the sidewalk, avoiding conflict.
There’s a lot of the post-and-ring, some inverted-u, and some “wave”-style.