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submitted 2 months ago by grue@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30563342

This store just opened up a few months back, and they had zero bike parking.

I emailed their head office, saying that I was planning to shop there, but not until they added a bike rack.

Went to check last night, and boom! Bike rack!

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[-] SaintWacko@slrpnk.net 36 points 2 months ago
[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 13 points 2 months ago

Also even if it wasn't, that's a public footpath? That would be completely blocked by a bike going across it?

Either this is layers of stupid, or the original OP came on the Internet to tell lies.

[-] blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 months ago

The path ends right there. You cannot go around the corner. There is nothing, that is blocked.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Probably not bolted down and installed properly either. Which part of the US is this?

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

No, you stick your wheel between the parallel bars and you can lock the wheel and frame to the rack with a u-lock or chain.

[-] SaintWacko@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago

I thought the wheel was supposed to sit between the two bars on the ground

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That's just the shadow of the vertical bars

[-] SaintWacko@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago

No, I mean the big bars. Like this

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 2 months ago

If it was turned the other way, it'd be flush against the wall and you wouldn't be able to fit your tire into the space to lock it up.

[-] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

No it wouldn't, the bottom bars stick out beyond the vertical bars and would give them clearance from the wall. It's backwards.

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Oh, got it. Yes, that's how it's supposed to go. The lower bar does help keep the bikes steady, but at least you can still lock your bike up even if it's backwards.

[-] polygon6121@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

You are correct.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago

No, it's the right way around. The designers just did a bad job.

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