Revision as of 15:02, 8 October 2010

Bike Parking at the shop

There were 3 options proposed on 9/2/2010 and they cover the following

• maintain space for work stands and tables outside
• maximize safe bike parking
• maintain pedestrian pathways, especially to the door near the greeter's desk

These are :

• File:Bike kitchen bparking option 1.pdf
• File:Bike kitchen parking option 2.pdf
• Image:Bike_kitchen_bparking_option_3.jpeg

The building and property mgmt

on 10/16/09, Kearstin checked with the building :

 On the topic of parking spaces outside the shop - they've decided that we can
 have control of all/both of the spaces outside the BK!!!! Hooray!!! great news.
 Now we can pursue a permanent design for the 'front yard' including bike parking
 and dedicated working space. If people are interested in being involved please
 let me know. 

Anne Torney of Soloma E.T.C. Reminds us of the following

 "An important constraint you might already be aware of : 
 the bike racks can’t block the area between the storefront and the chains 
  – this is a fire exit path." 

The architects for the building were Solomon, E.T.C., not David Baker. Solomon is part of WRT, where I work as a landscape architect. We did the landscape architecture for the courtyards.

The "bricks" are real individual unit pavers. Attaching something firmly to the ground would require removal of bricks, digging down through the gravel base that is below the bricks, and pouring a concrete footing. Using individual U-racks would require doing this for each point the rack hits the ground, i.e., two each. That's a lot of work. I'd recommend going with a large multi-bike rack, which may be secured at two or four points only.

The rack I'd recommend is a series of upside-down U's welded together along the bottoms. See this link:

http://www.creativepipe.com/gauntlet_gl_series_bike_racks.htm

(Note that some of them have a C-chanel across the bottom, but others have a flat bar.)