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Monday, October 8, 2007

Rack 'em up


A bike-rack contest is a little like a burping contest -- why remark on the biological consequences when you could focus on the hot-dog-eating itself? True, there is a vague sort of art in burping, and of course the more the better. Same with bike racks.

If you ride your bike everywhere, you eventually end up at a place where the bike's gotta stay, and you gotta go. So until they allow that bike-shopping-cart gizmo into the aisles of Supervalu, why not leave your bike attached to a piece of art? Or at least a feat of clever engineering?

Our own submission in the "so ugly they're beautiful" category would be the great stainless hoops outside CRC. From a few blocks away, they look like a line of white powder-coated deep-Vs! (And this frightens us.)

Photo (CC) Spacing

3 comments:

brother yam said...

Re CRC's bike rack:

Or really, really thick concertina wire...

TOMMY GUN said...

white powder? what kind of operation do you think we're runnin' here, Punchy?!?!?

Pinchie said...

yeah, concertina wire -- exactly!