Cyclehoop’s Car-Shaped Bike Racks Store 10 Bicycles in a Single Parking Spot

 

 

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Cyclehoop’s Car-Shaped Bike Racks Store 10 Bicycles in a Single Parking Spot

via INHABITAT by Lori Zimmer on 4/25/11

In an effort to encourage the use of bicycles over gas-guzzling vehicles, London's Cyclehoop has created a clever car-shaped bike rack, which was commissioned for theLondon Festival of Architecture. Cyclehoop's motto is that ten bicycles take up the space of one car, so each portable rack is designed to fit nicely in a regular car parking space. Not only does the design provide a safe place to lock a bike, but each rack also has an integrated bicycle pump as well!

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Cyclehoop: Kitting Cities Out for Bikes

 

 

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Cyclehoop: Kitting Cities Out for Bikes

via Core77 on 3/31/11

Cyclehoop is a UK-based design firm dedicated to "[encouraging] cycling by increasing bicycle parking infrastructure and tackling bicycle theft, at the same time improving our streets by reducing street clutter through intelligent design." Check out three of their innovations:

Their eponymous Cyclehoop is designed to be easily retrofitted to existing street signs and parking meters, obviating the need to spend city money on installing a new structure.

The Public Bicycle Pump could replace one of the sidewalk pylons you see around government buildings or be integrated into its own bike rack, providing free sips of air to deflated tires.

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