Save Your Bike In Underground
Saturday, December 27, 2008 by Unknown
I really like this way of parking bikes. It's so efficient usage of space. I do wonder about queues during rush our to park the bikes. It would suck to miss the train because somebody in front of you spent ages parking. It's also good in the way that your bike will be kept safe from thieves and vandals.
Here bikes are parked everywhere which can even block traffic. It's a major problem here that people leave bikes where they are suppoed to be parked and then they never come back. It's presumed that it happens with stolen bikes but some of them aren't reported stolen. The solution is whenever the bike parking is out of room, some public worker shows up and puts tape on all the bikes. It's placed so it sticks to the wheel and some non-moving part, meaning if the bike is used, the tape will either fall off or break. Two weeks later they show up with a lorry and picks up all the bikes with unbroken tape. If the bikes aren't reported stolen, then they are sold at auction. Since the bike might be broken or have hidden defects you can get really cheap bikes that way. You also get documentation that you bought it legally in case somebody decides to report it stolen later. I think the unsold ones are sold as scap metal. They are usually in a bad condition anyway if nobody wants to buy them.
Heard about these underground bicycle parking cylinders but never seenon in action until yesterday - was impressed. A very cute girl camealong to park her bicycle and let me take some pics - love thoseknee-down garnments.
These 'Gates' is where bicycles are parked and retrieved.
At each gate there is a simple card reader. One has to take out amonthly contract to use these ones but there are some around Tokyowhere anybody can park their bicycle.
The young lady swipes her card and a few seconds later the doors open. She docks the front wheel of her bicycle...
...and it gets pulled in to the dock. Doors close swiftly after. Took avideo of the bicycle park in action - but the young lady had gone bythen so you will have to make do with two kind men instead.
This is what the bicycle park looks like underground.
The Eco Cycle can store up to 144 bicycles underground - retrieval and storage in seconds. The longest it takes is 10 seconds.
The company who makes this is Giken who also make stuff like tidal and flood defense systems @.@
The Eco Cycle catersfor bicycles which are less than 1,950mm in length and less than1,250mm in height. Tyre size has to be less than 28 inches. Interestinghow the Japanese use a mixture of mm, cm and inches.
It costs 2,600 yen for a monthly ticket to use the park. Students pay 1,300 yen.
A few rules of what needs to be removed before using the park.
Info and guidance on the display. The video clip below shows what these parking units looks like underground.
And this is what other areas of Jiyu ga oka looked like yesterdaywithout Eco Cycle parks. As the bicycle is a main form of transport inJapan, parking them is a major problem.
Here bikes are parked everywhere which can even block traffic. It's a major problem here that people leave bikes where they are suppoed to be parked and then they never come back. It's presumed that it happens with stolen bikes but some of them aren't reported stolen. The solution is whenever the bike parking is out of room, some public worker shows up and puts tape on all the bikes. It's placed so it sticks to the wheel and some non-moving part, meaning if the bike is used, the tape will either fall off or break. Two weeks later they show up with a lorry and picks up all the bikes with unbroken tape. If the bikes aren't reported stolen, then they are sold at auction. Since the bike might be broken or have hidden defects you can get really cheap bikes that way. You also get documentation that you bought it legally in case somebody decides to report it stolen later. I think the unsold ones are sold as scap metal. They are usually in a bad condition anyway if nobody wants to buy them.
Heard about these underground bicycle parking cylinders but never seenon in action until yesterday - was impressed. A very cute girl camealong to park her bicycle and let me take some pics - love thoseknee-down garnments.
These 'Gates' is where bicycles are parked and retrieved. At each gate there is a simple card reader. One has to take out amonthly contract to use these ones but there are some around Tokyowhere anybody can park their bicycle.The young lady swipes her card and a few seconds later the doors open. She docks the front wheel of her bicycle... ...and it gets pulled in to the dock. Doors close swiftly after. Took avideo of the bicycle park in action - but the young lady had gone bythen so you will have to make do with two kind men instead. This is what the bicycle park looks like underground.The Eco Cycle can store up to 144 bicycles underground - retrieval and storage in seconds. The longest it takes is 10 seconds.The company who makes this is Giken who also make stuff like tidal and flood defense systems @.@The Eco Cycle catersfor bicycles which are less than 1,950mm in length and less than1,250mm in height. Tyre size has to be less than 28 inches. Interestinghow the Japanese use a mixture of mm, cm and inches.It costs 2,600 yen for a monthly ticket to use the park. Students pay 1,300 yen.
A few rules of what needs to be removed before using the park.Info and guidance on the display. The video clip below shows what these parking units looks like underground.And this is what other areas of Jiyu ga oka looked like yesterdaywithout Eco Cycle parks. As the bicycle is a main form of transport inJapan, parking them is a major problem.
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