Meanwhile, here's the Tesco Value version:
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/2008-02-06/IMG_1215.sized.jpg)
(Bring your own white van and socket wrench.)
I thought we already had a thread on cycle parking photos, but I couldn't find it.
Anyway, this gem is from Halfords, Sittingbourne:
Meanwhile, here's the Tesco Value version:
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/2008-02-06/IMG_1215.sized.jpg)
(Bring your own white van and socket wrench.)
Sometimes, nicknack, I think you are there to double the average IQ.
(Bring your own white van and socket wrench.)
Here's a photo of the cycle parking at our local Asda:Facilities need to be transparent so that they just blend in and become part of everyday life. ;)
Is that Becton?
Is that Becton?
Yes, yes it is.
Here's a photo of the cycle parking at our local Asda:
Here's a photo of the cycle parking at our local Asda:
A general note.
If a newish place doesn't have parking, it's worth checking with any recent planning permissions it may have received (even for extensions or changes in use). Many post-2000 permissions will include a requirement for cycle parking to be provided (or the consent is invalid and the building must be demolished).
Oh, and on the subject of supermarket parking fails, this is at my local Morrisons: -Similar ones, but rusty and just big enough to snag a derailleur if you put the back wheel in while not being large enough to hold the bike up if you put the front in, are found outside every Polish village shop. Bikes are left against the wall or hedge instead.
(http://macnet.org.uk/test/morrisons_wheelbenders.jpg)
:facepalm:
Oh, are they special handlebar-height stands? Our local Sansbury's has those, mounted end to end in a row - complete arse with a flat barred bike, and little better with drops. They're also made of tubing of about the same diameter as the internal spacing of a typical D-lock, leaving just about enough room for a chainstay (unless you brought a mini-D-lock).
Oh, are they special handlebar-height stands? Our local Sansbury's has those, mounted end to end in a row - complete arse with a flat barred bike, and little better with drops. They're also made of tubing of about the same diameter as the internal spacing of a typical D-lock, leaving just about enough room for a chainstay (unless you brought a mini-D-lock).
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cycling/IMG_20120113_160455.sized.jpg)
I actually managed to get my D-lock round the seat tube this time, but not the wheel. As you can see, optimal D-lock technique means having to do something stupid with the bars - I've gone for the 90 degree turn. It's not entirely clear in the photo, but the mountain bike front right is resting on one of the trigger shifters, with the front wheel ever so slightly off the ground - a method I try to avoid.
You need a bike with drop handle bars, :demon: I used to shop there by hooking the handle bar over the top of the stand, front wheel in the air. Then lock the seat tube to the stand with my DLock and an extension cable through the front wheel.
Oh, and yes, I know it's a bit slack. Perennial problem.
I asked one why they didn't just put some racks outside, they said they couldn't because of planning permission - it's not their land, after all, it's the pavement.
Those things can breed as well: -
(http://macnet.org.uk/test/tesco_hexham.jpg)
This was in Hexham. Why the trolleys get a roof and the bikes don't is beyond me
what's wrong with that? :-\Too closely spaced, too close to the wall and if you have full sized bikes with all their wheels, it blocks the access from the parent and child parking to the ramp to the door. ::-)
Ooh, *wonders if nikki has a photo of the bike racks at Morrisons at Longbridge*
Perfectly sensible Sheffield stands up against the wall near the main entrance. Except at some point recently, they've built a garden centre about a wheel-diameter away from the stands, which means that any correctly-parked bike automatically blocks access from that direction.