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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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read comments (18)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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Bicycle Anatomy for Beginners
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Five minute video which lovingly zooms into bike parts, and names them. “Want to know your dropout from your downtube? And your seat collar from your seatpost? Watch this guide and you’ll be talking bike in 5 minutes.” The ‘bespoke’ soundtrack was made using bike parts (spokes, gear shifting, disc brake rotor twanging), recorded in my garage and then made into music by Greg Johnston.
Duration : 0:5:44
RED LIGHT : Biking Rules PSA
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RED LIGHT : biking Rules PSA
campaign for www.bikingrules.org
Producer: Sean Kenney
Director: MA Shumin
Stop-motion animator / Editor: David Pagano
Music / Sound Designer: Brian Kenney
Most of us believe we’re acting safely on our bicycles, even if we break a little rule every now & then. But it only takes one bad call to cause a terrible mistake one that you may never recover from. We shot our PSA using LEGO bricks as a way to appeal to a wide audience of children, teens, parents, and retro-loving 20- and 30-somethings, and to teach a serious lesson in a lighthearted (yet hopefully memorable) way.
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Duration : 0:0:36
Trek 1.2 (2010) Road Bike
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Latest purchase – Trek 1.2 (2010) model. This will be my first ever road bike and its really exciting. Any road bike experts around…. would like to know how you keep it maintained and any tips for a beginner to these road bikes.
How Trek use Apple in their business (watch the video in this link – very cool:
http://www.apple.com/business/profiles/trek/
You can join me on Twitter:
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Learn some tips for installing pedals on a road bike in this free video series that covers the basics of how to become a knowledgeable road biker.
Expert: Mickey Denoncourt
Contact: www.spookybikes.com
Bio: Mickey Denoncourt owns Spooky Bikes, at www.spookybikes.com.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso
Duration : 0:1:42
Road Bike Maintenance : Learn Road Bike Gearing Tips
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Learn some tips for sizing cogs and cassettes in this free video series that covers the basics of how to become a knowledgeable road biker.
Expert: Mickey Denoncourt
Contact: www.spookybikes.com
Bio: Mickey Denoncourt owns Spooky Bikes, at www.spookybikes.com.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso
Duration : 0:1:41
Road Bike Maintenance : How to Shift a Road Bike
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Learn the different ways of shifting a road bike in this free video series that covers the basics of how to become a knowledgeable road biker.
Expert: Mickey Denoncourt
Contact: www.spookybikes.com
Bio: Mickey Denoncourt owns Spooky Bikes, at www.spookybikes.com.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso
Duration : 0:1:30
Learn about making adjustments for shifting for a road bike in this free video series that covers the basics of how to become a knowledgeable road biker.
Expert: Mickey Denoncourt
Contact: www.spookybikes.com
Bio: Mickey Denoncourt owns Spooky Bikes, at www.spookybikes.com.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso
Duration : 0:1:48
Bicycle Rush Hour Utrecht (Netherlands) I
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Morning rush hour in the 4th largest city in the Netherlands. Streets look like this when 33% of ALL trips are made by bicycle!
This is an ordinary Wednesday morning in April 2010 at around 8.30 am. Original time was 8 minutes that were compressed into 2 minutes, so everything is 4 times faster than in reality. The sound is original.
This is one of the busiest junctions in Utrecht a city with a population of 300,000. No less than 18,000 bicycles and 2,500 buses pass here every day. And yet Google Street View missed it. Because private motorized traffic is restricted here.
These cyclists cross a one way bus lane (also used by taxis and municipal vehicles), two light rail tracks and then a one way street that can be used by private vehicles.
Behind the camera is a railway (you can hear the squeaking sounds of the trains passing) and the main railway station is very close too. A number of rental bikes from the station pass and many of the cyclists will have come by train for the first part of their commute.
For those who frown upon the total absence of bike helmets in this video, consider these findings from a US study:
“Cycling in the Netherlands is much safer than in the USA. The Netherlands has the lowest non-fatal injury rate as well as the lowest fatality rate, while the USA has the highest non-fatal injury rate as well as the highest fatality rate. Indeed, the non-fatal injury rate for the USA is about 30 times higher than for the Netherlands.
Injury rate per million km cycled: USA 37.5; NL 1.4
Fatality rate per 100 million km cycled: USA 5.8; NL 1.1″
From: Pucher, John and Buehler, Ralph (2008) ‘Making Cycling Irresistible: Lessons from The Netherlands, Denmark and Germany’.
http://policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/pucher/Irresistible.pdf
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