Chicago Stolen Bike Rack Registry?
Ridgeland and Roosevelt, outside Walgreen's yesterday:
The cashier was pretty confident it had been stolen but I didn't ask her how she new.
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Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on
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I'm not so concerned about the bike rack. My worry would be that there was a bike locked to it at the time.
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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on
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Found an old pic I took in August 2012.
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Oh, in that case the issue would seem to be the theft of the unique bike rack. Those racks are probably just made of mild steel. Short work for a cordless cut-off wheel.
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The good news is that the racks were so stupidly placed (not just these, all of them) that the chances of a bike having been locked to it were very low.
But if it (the rack) was in fact stolen, the meticulousness of the way it was cut off suggests they were interested in the rack and not so much the bike. Unless the rack was stolen first and then someone trimmed it down for safety...
Skip Montanaro 12mi said:I'm not so concerned about the bike rack. My worry would be that there was a bike locked to it at the time.
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Permalink Reply by Vince Zaworski on
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Looks stolen to me. That's the problem with making them fancy.
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Permalink Reply by Bikefreeek on
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Is that for bikes or bike racks or both?
Vince Zaworski said:Looks stolen to me. That's the problem with making them fancy.
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Permalink Reply by Charlie Short 2.9 on
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What's weird about those racks is that it looks like older style racks were placed there before those "fancy" racks were installed. I'm sort of running bike parking right now, and a lot of these specialty racks are installed without any regard for how a person would use them.
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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on
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I love the idea of cool looking racks, but yes, many are installed more for show and aesthetics than function. Someone should create a info page with rules, good manufacturers, etc. for those companies and neighborhood groups who want to install these.
Charlie Short 11.5 said:What's weird about those racks is that it looks like older style racks were placed there before those "fancy" racks were installed. I'm sort of running bike parking right now, and a lot of these specialty racks are installed without any regard for how a person would use them.
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I believe they went in together. I've outlined in a past thread how inmappropriately they were placed. Here's one of them (thought I'd posted pictures...)
http://www.thechainlink.org/forum/topics/bike-rack-fail-anyone-been...
The ones in question like most of the paired racks along this part of Roosevelt are (were) too close together, and they're so close to the curb the bikes would have hung out into the travel lane, had anyone been unfortunate enough to use them.
Charlie Short 11.5 said:What's weird about those racks is that it looks like older style racks were placed there before those "fancy" racks were installed. I'm sort of running bike parking right now, and a lot of these specialty racks are installed without any regard for how a person would use them.
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Julie, Steve Vance has a web page that gives some pretty straightforward advice on installation. (I'm looking for the link.)
Howard and Julie, you wouldn't believe (actually you would) some of the suggestions we get for local installations. "How about we block pedestrian traffic with this bike rack? It's so pretty people won't care!"
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Looking forward to the expose when you retire to the private sector :-)
Charlie Short 11.5 said:Julie, Steve Vance has a web page that gives some pretty straightforward advice on installation. (I'm looking for the link.)
Howard and Julie, you wouldn't believe (actually you would) some of the suggestions we get for local installations. "How about we block pedestrian traffic with this bike rack? It's so pretty people won't care!"
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The fancy "foreign car emblem" bike racks.
Bikefreeek said:Is that for bikes or bike racks or both?
Vince Zaworski said:Looks stolen to me. That's the problem with making them fancy.
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