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More LSU idiocy. This is actually a really nice rack. I love the design. It has bars at the right height for the wheel and the frame to comfortably lock to AND dear god, enough space between them to fit a bike. However this location is idiotic. There is no way to lock to it without blocking the ENTIRE side walk. Do the maintenance people who install this shit LOOK AT IT or THINK for a damn second about whether or not this can function? It became most apparent after the orange fence was erected across the sidewalk.

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this is a good bike rack. This is in front of the Alvar library in New Orleans. I like that it has a kids section with annoying short bars and an adult section. Only problem is ALOT of adults on bikes use this library.

Shit's changed on here, how do i tag and add multiple photos ?

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RE:What about “where ya rack,” the overdesigned fleur de lis bike racks?

The criteria for a "bike rack fail" according to me is determined by whether it is WORSE than a pole to lock to. So far I think the whereyarack's are fine. They're simple, they don't take up much space and you can put your bike NEXT to it instead of on TOP of it. Are they too low to the ground? I can't remember. They have a probably conditional approval.

----S.S. (your loving BRF founder) ----

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On Sucker Poles

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This can happen in a Dutch cycle-topia, even.

Mmmmm, this can happen as well with a locked bicycle …

(by Laurens Mulkens, 2006 on www.eindhoven-in-beeld.nl)

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Bike rack fail, Latvian edition:

Hold your horses!

Šķiet, pagājušajā vasarā daudzviet Rīgā parādījās šādas caurules, kas, cik noprotams, domātas divriteņu novietošanai. Izmēra ziņā nav gluži trāpīts - rāmji ir pārāk lieli, lai būtu ērti lietošanā un izskatītos glīti pilsētvidē. Pievienoju sevi mērogam:

I think it was last summer when this kind of tubes hit numerous places in Riga. They appear to be installed as bicycle parking. The size is not quite right - the frames are too big for convenient use and don’t fit into the surroundings. I’ve pasted myself in for scale:

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What about "where ya rack," the overdesigned fleur de lis bike racks?

They were designed in part so they could carry advertising. The Vieux Carre commission just decided they were too ugly for the French Quarter.

What does Bike Rack FAIL think of 'em?

http://www.whereyarack.org/

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This is another failed bike rack here in Tucson. It's a HUGE rack, but the placement makes it nearly impossible to use. On one side, there's a wall about 8 inches away, and on the other there is a curb at exactly the distance that your back wheel would be. Also, since it's on a sidewalk, if you do manage to get your bike secured to it, your rear wheel will actually be in a parking spot.

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Cleveland, Ohio

Well it works better than the low wheel racks, but with so many open areas I can see someone in a hurry just locking to basically nothing.  Still better than nothing.  On the fail scale maybe a 5.

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See? the railing is as good if not better than any of this shitty excuses for bike racks at LSU.

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Outside the ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE building at LSU there is NO BIKE RACK, that I can find at least. This is where my bike goes. They may have done a classic bullshit LSU move and put the rack around some obscure corner of the building far from site of the front door, but I haven't found it.

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Sorry. More LSU. This is a little hard to explain. This is a perfectly good bike rack that is usually around the corner from (the building my chem class was in, what's this building called? some dead guys name). Anyway during construction of some sort, the bonehead construction workers, who no doubt haven't ridden a bicycle in their entire lives, moved the rack around the corner to a spot where there is absolutely no space to lock a bike to it properly. Even when someone locks to it half-asses sideways it blocks the walking path. One of the only functional bike racks at LSU and they fucked it up.

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So here is an interesting rack in front of the Alvar branch of the public library in New Orleans. Half the rack is decent and the other half is one of those bullshit only-for-kids-bikes racks you see everywhere (my personal anti-favorite). Could it be that one half is for grown ups bikes and the other (over represented half) is for kids bikes because HELLO they want to encourage children to come to the library? I'd like to think so. I'll give them the benefit of a doubt

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A variation on the paperclip rack?

cdale-15.jpg_effected on Flickr.

summer bike rack

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Not so much a fail as an Art... Awesome?

Talking Heads artist David Byrnes gets creative with bike rack designs but beside the pretentious nature of it, is a shaped bike really any more useful or just plain stupid?

http://gothamist.com/2008/08/20/david_byrne_bike_racks.php#photo-1

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The first one reminds me of the rack that got this whole thing started.

A couple of failed bike rack attempts from around Tucson.

As you can see, the first one is too close to the building to be of much use. It’s actually so close to the building that it’s hard to get a U lock behind the rack just to lock one bike up to it. 

The second one is functional, but I’m not sure what they were thinking making it. It has 8 loops for locks/cables on it, but you’re clearly not going to be able to lock more than 2 bikes around a post (which you could do almost as easily to a plain post, provided it was either tall enough or had something blocking the top).

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This is the bike rack outside Terranova's Super Market on Esplanade Avenue in New Orleans.  It is too low, so in order to lock up my bike with my U-lock, I have to lean my bike over until it is almost parallel to the ground.

Despite this complaint, Terranova's is my favorite grocery store in the city and I highly recommend you visit the store and chat with the friendly family who has run it for generations.

This bike rack appeared outside the store within the past year or two.  Previously they had a much higher rack.  I asked the staff at the store what happened.  Here's what she told me, paraphrased: The rack, and the store, were flooded by Hurricane Katrina.  The rack survived, but nobody knew that it had been significantly weakened by rust.  One day, an NOPD officer on horseback arrived at the store and tied up his horse to the bike rack.  Then, a car backfired and spooked the horse, which reared up and pulled the bike rack off the ground, breaking the weakened steel.

So after their bike rack was destroyed, a loyal customer donated this rack.  The store management apologized for it being too low, but that's all they can afford right now.

What's the deal with the big face behind the rack?  That is apparently part of a promotion for Team Gleason, the former New Orleans Saints player diagnosed with ALS.