| Title: | Bicycling |
| Notice: | Bicycling for Fun |
| Moderator: | JAMIN::WASSER |
| Created: | Mon Apr 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3214 |
| Total number of notes: | 31946 |
Fellow bikers,
We, the folks of the Customer Support Center, Colorado Springs
just moved to a new building in Rockrimmon. We have a problem
with bike racks.
The racks provided by the facilities department do not meet the
needs of our bikers here. Most of us have quick release wheels
and find it impossible to share a bike rack that looks like
a drainage grate.
Does any body know of a brand of bike racks that we could suggest
to facilities as a better way to go?
By the way, this NOTES file has some great stuff in it!
Frank Mannix
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 65.1 | SHEDS are best, but ... | BANZAI::FISHER | Tue May 27 1986 09:21 | 6 | |
Here at ZK we have some things which I described in 45.3 which protect your QR's pretty well. But SHEDS are the answer. I will poke around and see if I can find a name for them. ed | |||||
| 65.2 | racks I've known | HANDEL::JBELL | Thu May 29 1986 16:36 | 19 | |
The rack that I encountered a few years ago was called BIKE ROOT. It is an "F" shaped peice of metal stuck in the concrete with a cable attached. The idea is that you slide the chain stays into the space between the horizontal parts of the F. The cable goes the front wheel and loops onto your lock. Then you slide the lock through holes in the end of the F peice. The problems with this design are that it is slow to use, and that it scratches the paint anyways. It is possible to lock your bike perpendicularly to the dish strainer racks. The trick is to lift the front wheel over the top bar. The top rack bar now sits behind the front fork and the U-bolt locks can reach the frame, the front wheel, and the rack. My favorite for a simple design is just a 2" pipe that runs 30" off the ground. Lift the front wheel over it and you are there. Jeff Bell | |||||
| 65.3 | Paint won't scratch if you don't have any.. | EUREKA::REG_B | Thu May 29 1986 20:14 | 14 | |
Two suggestions for avoiding paint scratches from bike racks.
In descending order of both cost and preferance (mine);
1) Get an anodized aluminium frame, i.e. VITUS or ALAN.
2) Get a short length of "climatube"(tm), its a pipe
insulation sold in hardware stores. Either carry it to wrap on your
top tube, or donate it to the at_work_bike_rack for communal use,
your fellow commuting bikers will love/bless you according to their
whatever.
Reg
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