http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Bikes look unprofessional en Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:05:16 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346&page=2#post-83681 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:00:19 +0000 fimm 83681@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wish I had a camera with me then I could show you all the wonderful "parking" round my office. Untidy does not begin to describe it... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346&page=2#post-83661 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:56:06 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 83661@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Personally I think dogs in offices should be mandatory. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346&page=2#post-83654 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:14:18 +0000 Lezzles 83654@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh dear....<br /> Dog in office? check<br /> Men not wearing ties? check<br /> Bike parked under a stair case at work? Check.</p> <p>Thankfully I work for a company that doesn't think you need these things to do a professional job. They judge us on the merit of our work. So much so that the dog is actively encouraged into the office as it calms people down and creates a pleasant place to work. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83644 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:51:48 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 83644@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>But the cars aren't actually <em>in</em> the workplace.</p> <p>Though I do agree, tucked away under stairs etc., that's not an unprofessional look at all. Actually, in all honesty I don't think a bike sitting beside a desk, as long as it isn't creating an obstruction, doesn't look unprofessional. But then we here all like bikes. Others would think a dog in an office was unprofessional (I don't) or that not wearing a tie looks unprofessional (I still find dress down Friday here odd because the work done is just as good, which kind of proves the lack of necessity to be in proper shirt, tie and troos the rest of the time - however, I do also like the 'separation' it creates in my mind between work and free time by having to don a work outfit).</p> <p>But we're comparing apples and pears if trying to decide whether cars in a car park look as unprofessional as bikes in an office... It's just not the same thing. Sorry. It's not.</p> <p>(when my old work was winding down to closing, and there were only 3 or 4 of us left in the building, I stopped locking up outside - which had to be down the stairs on the front, because chaining to the railings looked unprofessional - and wheeled the bike into the front office. But then we got no-one coming in). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83642 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:48:12 +0000 chdot 83642@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Photos can't be added directly to CCE. </p> <p>Need to on Flickr (or similar) and linked. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83639 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:45:07 +0000 Lezzles 83639@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If I knew how to attach photos I'd send you a picture of my bike at work. I could then send you a photo of the 100+ professional looking cars in the car park (and the slipway because the car park is too far for some people to walk). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83623 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:56:45 +0000 Uberuce 83623@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Kirst, I'll pop a photo of my bedroom up tonight. SRD's bike folded behind the chair is easily the tidiest thing there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83608 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:40:04 +0000 crowriver 83608@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Kappers, that hallway has 'fire hazard' written all oer it. Hooks mon, hooks! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83602 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:00:48 +0000 Kirst 83602@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'd love to be able to say it's a bike in the middle of the room that makes the place look untidy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83601 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:54:48 +0000 Uberuce 83601@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Have you ever tried walking past that? It's as close as I've been to being a plumply bottomed female in Italy. #grabbybars </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83600 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:54:35 +0000 kaputnik 83600@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>yeah, the 0.5 bike is the frame in bubblewrap against the wall. I don't own a red-tyred folding unicycle with a wooden saddle. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83598 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:50:47 +0000 Dave 83598@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wait, just realised that's a track pump! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83597 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:50:15 +0000 Dave 83597@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not sure - bar tape and tyre clash there somewhere, and does the bar tape match the walls, darling? :P </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83596 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:50:00 +0000 Uberuce 83596@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You gotta build yourself the mancave rack. Not that I did, or could, but am glad Lawrence did. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83593 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:42:03 +0000 kaputnik 83593@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8181/7939246838_8f842474bd.jpg"></p> <p>4.5 bikes significantly improve the appearance of any otherwise dull magnolia living space. Well in my opinion at least. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83570 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:14:06 +0000 Dave 83570@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, we don't have our bikes in our living areas, so I wouldn't expect to be able to leave mine in the working area of an office either, far from it!</p> <p>To be fair though, in unused space such as below stairs, who on earth can complain (in fact, literally 'below stairs'!)... </p> <p>Mentioned elsewhere I'm doing a demo commute with a colleague tomorrow. In our office the boss cycles, the deputy boss cycles, I cycle, and now (finally!) someone in my team is going to cycle, if just for a day. So it's like the pyramid people would expect, only in reverse ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83569 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:50:45 +0000 PS 83569@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Being devil's advocate on this one - bikes are large objects and most people do not expect to see them indoors. Much though I like my bikes, if I had mine sitting in my living room at the moment they would make the place look untidy and I would feel obliged to shift them elsewhere if I was inviting "polite company" round. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83566 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:38:26 +0000 Uberuce 83566@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One of my favourite fellow cyclists in the NHS bike park is the chap who rides the rustiest old MTB I've ever seen move. I guess it was his from high school or student days, 20 years ago and looks like it hasn't had a scrap of maintenence since then.</p> <p>He, however, is always immaculate in suit and tie. Cruises in at a sedate pace, of course, but within ten seconds of trouser clip removal, you'd never know he'd even been on a bike. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83536 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:05:54 +0000 chdot 83536@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>it's not about class or rubbish</p> <p>Oh I wouldn't be so sure about that...</p> <p>"</p> <p>OK, not <em>just</em>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83534 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:00:56 +0000 cc 83534@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not that I ever wear a suit, but, you know, I reckon this is a reason for the infamous Cycle Chic thing - that folk can wear posh office clothes and still pootle along comfortably on a bike - given the right "take it easy" attitude and bike, anyway.<br /> It helps to open some peoples' eyes to wider horizons than the junior executive BMW.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16nine/sets/72157605699925628/">Cycle Chic: pour hommes</a><br /> :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83533 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:57:07 +0000 crowriver 83533@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>it's not about class or rubbish</em></p> <p>Oh I wouldn't be so sure about that... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83531 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:48:56 +0000 kaputnik 83531@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Myself and another neighbour have spent a lot of time and effort (and a decent amoutn of money) tidying up, cleaning and improving the back green to make it a nice place to go and to look at out of the window. Now, 3 'orrible looking fully-flexible BSOs have been chained to the washing poles. Doesn't look unprofessional, just looks 'orrible out my window! The old steel frame I have put in the flower border as a garden ornament looks <em>much</em> nicer.</p> <p>Next time I see the bike's owners I'll point out the pointlessness of locking the bike around a pole that it can easily be lifted over. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83528 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:40:31 +0000 chdot 83528@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> the street "lacked atmosphere".</p> <p>So there you go, cars make somewhere a buzzin' place to be.<br /> "</p> <p>It's 'true'. </p> <p>At least if there are not a lot of people - or perhaps bicycles. </p> <p>Humans clearly need some sort of constant visual stimulus. </p> <p>Banning cars - in places like Princes Street - is regarded (by some) as a bad idea because the 'eyes in the cars' discourage mugging. Or something. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83525 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:26:40 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 83525@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When George Street got closed to cars a few years back there was a comment from a bar owner that the street "lacked atmosphere".</p> <p>So there you go, cars make somewhere a buzzin' place to be. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83524 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:25:29 +0000 cb 83524@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I remember reading about some new housing scheme where cars had to be parked out of site of the street (Poundbury, perhaps?).</p> <p>Some of the residents complained that the lack of any cars felt artificial and unfriendly*.</p> <p>So we have become so used to them that we need even just the sight of them!</p> <p>(*not sure what the exact words were but that was the basic sentiment, I think) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83522 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:21:05 +0000 chdot 83522@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"They might be alright for the denizens of Leith, but far too declassé for the New Town"</p> <p>Fine for most tenement areas. But I forgot - it's not about class or rubbish, (though seagulls and foxes are cute), it's about parking spaces.</p> <p>How about a parking permit price escalator? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83520 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:15:37 +0000 crowriver 83520@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>couldn't contemplate communal rubbish bins</em></p> <p>They might be alright for the denizens of Leith, but far too <em>declassé</em> for the New Town, I shouldn't wonder. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83515 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:00:43 +0000 chdot 83515@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"c. 100 cars right outside - why isn't that deemed unprofessional and messy?"</p> <p>Bit like those Edinburgh New Town residents who don't mind streets full of parked cars but couldn't contemplate communal rubbish bins - and were/are apparently happy with black binbags on the pavements... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83514 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:54:46 +0000 crowriver 83514@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think in many people's eyes (ie. non-cycling car drivers) bikes under the stairs just reminds them of the kids' bikes in their garage at home, or a tenement stair they lived in when they were a student/young professional. </p> <p>I mean, come on, <em>serious fully grown up adults</em> drive a massive fock off <strong>car</strong>! Preferably 4x4, climate control, fog lights and in-car entertainment with TV, DVD and iPod housing. They have <em>arrived</em>, baby! They don't mess around on stupid bikes like some big kid!!! How <em>unprofessional</em> is that? You loser! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8346#post-83511 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:30:59 +0000 Lezzles 83511@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes if people had to push past I could see their point. My bike is stored under some stairs which is not a thorough-fair. The space isn't used at all for any other purpose and hasn't been for the last 5 years I've worked here. </p> <p>There is a car park with c. 100 cars right outside - why isn't that deemed unprofessional and messy? </p>