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Bike Tree – cycle parking Japanese style
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Has Japan designed the world’s best bike shed?
It’s not often something stops you in your bike tracks. But a spectacular “bike tree” invention from Japan bowled me over when I was in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago.
Fed up with bicycles locked to railings, piled on top of each other, blocking doorways and roads, a local council in the city installed the mechanical masterpiece. It’s basically an automatic storage system for cycles and operates with computer tagging of bikes and either storage in a building or a basement structure.
There are a number of locations where these bike trees are now in place in Tokyo some hold 600-odd bikes, others more than 6,000. The concept came from the massive Japanese steel company JFE, whose engineering works division first started them in 2007 but are now spreading.
The idea is quite simple, although no doubt the technology is fiendishly complicated. Bike owners who want a secure parking spot must register and pay a monthly fee 1,800 yen (around £12 a month) and students get discounts.
Bikes are fitted with a small electronic tag. When the bike is placed into the ruts of the bike tree machine, a sensor logs the owner’s details. A mechanical arm then emerges, pulls the bike into a cylindrical well and stores it at high speed in a free location. To retrieve the bike, the owner swipes a card through a reader and the bike is plucked from racks and brought back down or up if it’s a basement design to earth. The process of retrieval normally takes 15 seconds but can be slightly longer (it took 30 seconds in my experience).
The advantages are plain your bike becomes theft-proof, you are encouraged to cycle to work and local authorities don’t have to deal with unsightly and sometimes annoying bicycle clutter. The downside is that it costs a lot of money and the infrastructure involves serious resources.
The tree’s inventors at JFE are very proud of their invention and naturally curious as to whether it would catch on Europe. Perhaps it’s time Boris Johnson, London’s cycling mayor and biking knight in shining armour, took a look.
http://www.urban-shade.com
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InfernoMortalhttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/infernomortalSportsFreestyle, Street, Bike, Danny, MacAskill, Mountain, MTB, ArtistaFreeStyle Street Mountain Bike (MTB) Danny MacAskill Inspired
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This is a video of the Red Bull Rampage competition that was held in Virgin, Utah for three years in a row, I think from 2002-2004. The event was held again in October of 2008. The goal of this competition is to get down the mountain the most difficult way without wrecking or putting a foot down. This stuff is sick!
Side Note: I do not own the rights to this video. That is reserved to the owners.
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1973 Schwinn Varsity Bike Conversion
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I took an old road bike and converted it into a city commuter.
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StreetFilms-Portland: Bicycle Boulevards
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Bicycle Boulevards in Portland are a thing of beauty, safety, and tranquility. They are also wonderful streets to live on. Mia Birk, former manager of City of Portland’s Bicycle Program (1993-99), and Mark Lear of the Portland Office of Transportation explain a few of the many strategies employed to keep thru traffic off the boulevards and to make the riders using them safe.
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Bike Stunts
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Set of cool bike stunts set to some pretty cool music
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Bumstead’s bicycles now carries offers a complete line of Trek road bikes. The Series 1.5 is one of the most popular. Call now 909-984-9067 or come in to the shop just a few blocks South of the 10 Fwy at Mountain exit at 4th St. Check out the blog at http://www.Bumstead’sBicycles.blogspot.com
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A New Way to Park Bicycles.. Hang them in a Bike Tree!
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showing a person parking their bicycle on a “Bike Tree” using a smart card. The smart card causes the hook to come down. The bicycle is hood up. And only that unique smart card can cause the hook to come back down with the bicycle.
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A Fixed Gear Review – State Bicycle
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If you’re interested in picking one of these bad boys up, they are pretty cheap. All the specifics can be found on the website (size, parts, etc.) You can even customize what kind of handlebars you’d like.
http://www.statebicycle.com
MY TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/AndrewBravener
The song used in this video is Everything Connects by Vertigo Whales
http://www.myspace.com/VertigoWhales
Thank you to Jenna for the voice and camera work in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/Jennaspaige
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New York City Bike Messengers
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http://www.digave.com/videos/
Bike messengers dodging traffic in New York City. I did not shoot or produce this video! Filmed and edited by Lucas Brunelle. Credits to the real guys are at the end… this is unedited and I don’t even remember where I got it from… it’s still an incredible video. Props to the guys behind it.
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