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Sleeptech
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Mr Sworld
Joined: 17 Sep 2008
Posts: 167
Location: Brighton
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 Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 4:13 pm |
It also looks to me that most of the street parked bikes have no locks on! And those that do just have a little one just on the back wheel....
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DesWeller
Joined: 05 May 2008
Posts: 279
Location: Frocester Hill
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 8:02 pm |
That really, really appeals to me! No D-lock to carry round, no sheffield stand to scratch your paint on, un-nickable unless someone defeats the tag system...what's not to like?
Wouldn't really work out here in the sticks, but I could see it in the bottom of an apartment building or offices or summat like that.
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snailracer
Joined: 23 Jun 2009
Posts: 133
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 8:35 pm |
The innards remind me of the pods in The Matrix.
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the_village_idiot
Joined: 07 Oct 2009
Posts: 108
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 9:15 pm |
wouldn;t work in UK
thief puts his bike "tag" onto a nice one, ripping the original tag off. theif gets to pinch nice bike
also in the UK at the top of the building- where they store all the bikes, the only staff member would be one old and really pissed off, chain smoking guy called Rod who mutters constantly to himself and refuses to be rushed. it would therefore take about 2 hours to retrieve a bike having swiped your tag, and not 30s like it does in china.
Also our health & safety would forbid dear old Rod from lifting the bike, so he would have to store on one floor only
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Mr Sworld
Joined: 17 Sep 2008
Posts: 167
Location: Brighton
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 12:33 am |
It would never work in the UK! However Japan is a very, very strange place compared to Western ideas.
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artaxerxes
Joined: 23 Oct 2007
Posts: 465
Location: N51:27:35 E0:00:18
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 7:56 am |
I think this would be great if they built it underneath strategic places in town, like under Leicester Quare or Hanover Square.
Also I disagree with the comments that this kind of thing wouldn't work in the UK. The bike park in London Bridge (OnYourBike) seems to work well, this would just be an automated and bigger version. If they combined it with a bike shop/repair facility you could employ people who actually cared about bikes rather than 'chain smoking Rod'.
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kelsen
Joined: 18 Aug 2009
Posts: 5
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 11:54 am |
They've only taken 100 years to air-condition the Tube, so yeah, I can see this happening real soon!
| the_village_idiot wrote: | wouldn;t work in UK
thief puts his bike "tag" onto a nice one, ripping the original tag off. theif gets to pinch nice bike
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I like the way you think! You're no village idiot!
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Headhuunter
Joined: 28 Nov 2008
Posts: 1353
Location: SE London
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 12:42 pm |
I've seen this before. I agree that it probably wouldn't work in the UK, firstly it would break down and not get repaired so you'd be left high, dry and bikeless after a long day at work and I can see an enormous queue lining up waiting to get bikes back or put bikes in every morning and every evening. Also in London it would prohibititively expensive - look at Tibe fares in London compared with those in Japanese cities, Japanese fares are a tiny fraction of London prices.
It may be closer than you think in London though, Ken was already trying to get funding for a big, underground cycle store with lockers and showers somewhere near Holborn and I think another by London Bridge, however BoZo has probably quietly forgotten about this seeing as he has screwed TfLs budget by not introducing the gas guzzler cong charge, cancelling the western extension etc and spending every last red cent on designing the new "Boris bus"...
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." Voltaire |
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the_village_idiot
Joined: 07 Oct 2009
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 2:55 pm |
| kelsen wrote: | They've only taken 100 years to air-condition the Tube, so yeah, I can see this happening real soon!
| the_village_idiot wrote: | wouldn;t work in UK
thief puts his bike "tag" onto a nice one, ripping the original tag off. theif gets to pinch nice bike
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I like the way you think! You're no village idiot! |
maybe my user name is actually a front to clone my master plan to pose as an idiot and import expensive bikes from china to the UK
the chinese cant read this right??? 
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MonkeyMonster
Joined: 10 Aug 2009
Posts: 882
Location: Olympia--> SCR Racetrack <-- Angel
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 3:00 pm |
| the_village_idiot wrote: | | thief puts his bike "tag" onto a nice one, ripping the original tag off. theif gets to pinch nice bike |
I suspect this would be largely impossible given the bike will only ever be in the open either inside the tree (rather inaccessible I'd have thought) or the person's shed/house...
What they could do is nick the swipe card.
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