January 22, 20161 Comment on A cute crowdsourced secure bike parking campaign
June 22, 201125 Comments on Rethinking Sheldon Brown’s lock technique
On his lock strategy page, Sheldon Brown (RIP) recommends locking a bike by securing the rear wheel inside the rear triangle with a U lock. A YouTube video shows Sheldon might be wrong!
April 11, 201111 Comments on Bike Hanger vertical bicycle storage
March 18, 20112 Comments on Indoor bike security
Suppose you need to lock your bicycle up to keep it safe from your thieving roommate. Or perhaps you like to keep your bike indoors at your workplace, but you don’t trust the cow-orkers there to keep their fingers from your lovely steed. You don’t have the room to install a bike rack inside your apartment or in the storage closet. What to do?
Rodd Industrial Design in the UK created two interesting locking solutions: Lupin and Armlock, for use in multi-occupancy houses and apartments while taking space constraints into consideration.
January 4, 20098 Comments on an "immovable object" to lock bicycles to
Via VeloVision magazine comes a novel concept in bike racks: the PlantLock. The PlantLock is a bit pricey but looks like a potential solution to the problem where your spouse thinks that a bike rack on the front porch looks ugly. PlantLock could also be used in tony downtowns that eschew the common bike rack as too plebeian but don’t want to spring for a custom design. Someone please import these into the U.S.!
