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The Evolution Of Bike Racks
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Sheffield racks are the peak of bicycle parking designs as far as I'm concerned. Basically the upside down U-design, but wider, providing multiple locking points, and allowing a slight lean to balance the bicycle upon.
I ride a step-through frame, and wholeheartedly agree, Sheffield racks are the most accessible and easy design I've seen. Though they are not the most efficient for mass bike parking, they are one of the only designs I've seen work for almost every type of bike, including front load cargo bikes and recumbent bikes.
Steadyrack's can suck a dick. I know they're great for the types of bikes they're designed for, but my bike is 20kg, they say "no heavy lifting" but you need to physically lift the frame off the ground. Fortunately I can lift my frame... But I'm not tall enough to lift my bike off the ground by the handle bars as this rack requires you to do, and because it's a step through frame the centre of gravity isn't ideal for the rack and my bike juts out at weird angles preventing someone using the neighbouring rack if they're installed too closely (which they always are)
So if that's my only option, I'm the asshole locking my bike to a weird part of the fence instead of the designated bike rack.
TIL Sheffield rack is the name of the wider U rack.
TIL Steadyrack. In California, we only see those in very space constrained places, like indoor bike parking. Or onboard a train. Otherwise, yeah, they're not preferred.
Yeah, the only thing place I see Steadyracks is at high density paid secure bike parking facilities, the basements of large office blocks with a large cycling culture among tenants, or onboard regional and semi-long haul trains
(our metropolitan trains have no bike zones at all, you're expected just to stand up and hold your bike in the rear cab where wheelchairs would sit if it were the front cab, which is fine but some of our lines are 40-50 minutes long so it's a long time to be standing and balancing my heavy frame, especially because I'm too short to reach the overhead grip rail)