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Spokes Public Meeting: Tackling Bike Storage

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  1. chdot
    Admin

    "The Spokes autumn public meeting on November 25 discusses the Spokes tenements bike storage project – and how to move forward with practical bike storage improvements at home and at work."

    http://www.spokes.org.uk/wordpress/2010/09/spokes-autumn-public-meeting-tackling-bike-storage

    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. kaputnik
    Moderator

    I think I might go to this. I'm on the verge of putting a sign up in my stair to ask the students to better park their BSOs so as not to block access to the back green.

    Last week there was a wall of bikes 4 deep, completely blocking the door.

    A number of bikes found themselves spending a damp, chilly night in the back green.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  3. chdot
    Admin

    "I'm on the verge of putting a sign up in my stair"

    There will be a poster available nearer to the event - worth putting that up too!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  4. kaputnik
    Moderator

    There will be a poster available nearer to the event - worth putting that up too!

    I was going to design my own and share it for all here to decorate their stairs with too :)

    Posted 13 years ago #

  5. chdot
    Admin

    "I was going to design my own and share it for all here to decorate their stairs with too"

    Still worth doing (saves waiting 2 months...)

    Posted 13 years ago #

  6. chdot
    Admin

    Poster

    PDF for printing and posting.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  7. DaveC
    Member

    Thanks for this, I have put up a copy of the poster in my office.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  8. chdot
    Admin

    Tomorrow

    Posted 13 years ago #

  9. chdot
    Admin

    From Twitter

    "

    SpokesLothian:

    When coming to the Spokes Public Meeting Thurs 25th ... http://bit.ly/spk_pubmtg101125_2

    please note the Mound is closed Thurs evening.

    Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/SpokesLothian/status/7505389985730560

    "

    Posted 13 years ago #

  10. PS
    Member

    The Council and Grange/Prestonfield Community Council seem to have managed to arrange a meeting to discuss "plans for traffic, cycling and parking issues in large parts of the ward" at much the same time as the Spokes meeting tonight.

    Details here

    Posted 13 years ago #

  11. spitfire
    Member

    For indoor storage - bike hooks:

    Bike Hooks by spytfyre, on Flickr

    Posted 13 years ago #

  12. ruggtomcat
    Member

    close-up of a hook please?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  13. spitfire
    Member

    will take one tonight and upload to flickr tagged simply as "hook"

    Posted 13 years ago #

  14. ruggtomcat
    Member

    lol ta.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  15. chdot
    Admin

    I use these -

    http://www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=20001&partNumber=164646

    vertically - though should be strong enough horizontally if in solid enough bit of wood.

    There are also these, which I have never actually seen and not sure how you're supposed to mount them -

    http://www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?storeId=20001&catalogId=1500000701&langId=-1&searchTerms=bicycle+hook

    Posted 13 years ago #

  16. PS
    Member

    We've got a couple of these Topeak Oneups. Reet smart, they are.
    OneUp

    However, we've got four bikes, and I want another one two, so not sure what to do next.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  17. wingpig
    Member

    In my old flat's cupboard-under-the-stairwell I had a thing from EBC

    which folded out from the wall to that it could support the frame as I was wary of leaving something as heavy as a bike (to which would still be attached both locks) hanging by a single wheel. Didn't use it much as the cupboard was so small it was slightly less convenient to use the hook. Might get another one to reduce the amount of hallway I take up at the moment.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  18. chdot
    Admin

    "I had a thing from EBC"

    Oooh, looks just a pair of drops.

    Get old frame, stem and bars and fix to wall somehow!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  19. spitfire
    Member

    ah see mine aren't hanging - the back wheel is on the floor

    Posted 13 years ago #

  20. PS
    Member

    There's an article in the latest Boneshaker magazine about a guy (I think) who is recycling bits of bikes into useful stuff. One of the examples appears to be some drops on a vetical pole that sits in a set of casters from a chair. Such a thing might well solve my problems. Off to the tip...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  21. spitfire
    Member

    @ruggtomcat - as promised

    hook by spytfyre, on Flickr

    Posted 13 years ago #

  22. Kim
    Member

    What we really need is an improvement in on street parking...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  23. kaputnik
    Moderator

    don't be silly Kim, we'd have to lose some car parking spaces for that and as we all know, Edinburgh's streets were built for horses and carts parking cars on

    Posted 13 years ago #

  24. chdot
    Admin

    "we'd have to lose some car parking spaces for that and as we all know, Edinburgh's streets"

    make money for the council.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  25. chdot
    Admin

    New option -


    Poundland St. James Centre

    Posted 13 years ago #

  26. DaveC
    Member

    @ chdot,

    Many thnaks, I'll get some of those!!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  27. chdot
    Admin

    "some of those"

    Towards the back 2nd left aisle.

    Usually have some some cycle related items.

    But you 'get what you pay for'

    Don't buy the hacksaw blades!

    Not a lot to go wrong with this one though.

    Posted 13 years ago #

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