Originally Posted by
Andy_K
Right. I was going to note how close the rack is to the wall also. It's almost impossible to get a U-lock through anything but the wheel with a rack like this. Hopefully locking isn't actually necessary with a secure location like this, but I'd feel better with my bike locked properly. Also, this type of arrangement is going to limit how many bikes can use the rack. You'd get more bikes on a rack if bikes could be parked rear-in on either side of the rack. Perhaps that isn't an issue yet.
The racks aren't bolted down, so if someone needed to U-Lock their bike, they could scooch the rack back enough to drape their bike over the top. I'm hoping tomorrow, for the opening, we'll have enough bikes parked there it'll show what sort of a problem these are, I did invite folks to bring in their bike to park inside for the optics of the event, we'll see how motivated folks get.
It's still movement in the right direction....