With all of this talk about riding bikes to work, you have to be wondering how in the world you will find a place to lock you bike when the pitifully small number of bike racks start to overflow. I’ve been to Amsterdam, so I’ve seen some pretty amazing bicycle parking garages. (In a future post I’ll link to a gallery.)
But this video of a parking device in Japan is completely out of this world. Can you imaging rolling into a garage, scooting your bike into an elevator, and then watch it disappear into a cavernous underground filing system? I don’t understand a word of this video, but pictures are way more powerful than words. I found this at Life in the Bike Lane.
Tags: bicycle
June 19th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I’d love to have something like this available if I was parking in a high theft area. However, I don’t think we are anywhere near the space limitation in the US that prompts designs like this in Japan.
Pretty cool though. I wonder how they handle the “oddball bike” situations.