Originally Posted by
RubeRad
This is not what I thought; these are for "residential" lockers, for outdoor parking near where you live, like a condo where you share a garage with somebody else in your condo. Do people really not have room for their bikes inside their houses? I see tons of threads around here with creative solutions for storing bikes inside tiny apartments.
What is more useful is secure bike parking solutions for people who are at work. I'm lucky, my work has a chain-link+barb-wire enclosing the campus (incl parking), plus it's in a pretty nice suburb, so I'm not worried about my bike at all. But if I worked in an office downtown where my only option was to lock my bike up on the sidewalk, exposed to thieves and elements, a bike locker would be a much better option.
I just started storing my bike in my flat and to be honest it sucks.
It's dirty, it smells and it means you clean the bike everyday. It was easier in Germany, when I threw it in the bicycle room in the basement with all of the other bikes.
I strongly recommend against it.