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Another reason to love Japanese innovation

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  • 24-04-2008 5:21pm
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    unionman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭


    The Japanese Bike Tower

    Ok, c'mon, it's nearly friday and the world is filled with bad news, so why not brighten up your day with this little YouTube nugget.

    Maybe Dublin City Council should consider installing one of these at the Carlton site on O'Connell Street, to make up for the loss of bike parking up there. Should sit nicely underneath the 'sky park'.


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    SuperSean11
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    unionman wrote: »
    The Japanese Bike Tower

    Ok, c'mon, it's nearly friday and the world is filled with bad news, so why not brighten up your day with this little YouTube nugget.

    Maybe Dublin City Council should consider installing one of these at the Carlton site on O'Connell Street, to make up for the loss of bike parking up there. Should sit nicely underneath the 'sky park'.

    Thats a great idea for storing bikes


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    Ghost Rider
    Registered Users Posts: 1,883 ✭✭✭Ghost Rider


    Brilliant.
    unionman wrote: »
    The Japanese Bike Tower

    Ok, c'mon, it's nearly friday and the world is filled with bad news, so why not brighten up your day with this little YouTube nugget.

    Maybe Dublin City Council should consider installing one of these at the Carlton site on O'Connell Street, to make up for the loss of bike parking up there. Should sit nicely underneath the 'sky park'.


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    LoanShark
    Registered Users Posts: 949 ✭✭✭LoanShark


    Those Cheeky Little Chaps!!

    Volkswagen Have an almost Identical system in Germany For where you go to collect your BRAND NEW CAR and when it comes to you it has exactly ZERO km on it..

    However Since it is Nearly Friday I will participate in the fun and say
    (in the tone of Homer Simpson)

    "What will they think of next?"


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    proteus
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    The rails holding the bike in place in the tower look a bit dodgy. I can't see anything to stop a bike rolling forward and then falling.


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    niceonetom
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    that might be the most over engineered solution to a problem i've ever seen.

    it's hard not to think that sooner or later that contraption will mince your bike and bring it's pretzeled remains back to you with stunning efficiency.


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    gman2k
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    niceonetom wrote: »
    that might be the most over engineered solution to a problem i've ever seen.

    it's hard not to think that sooner or later that contraption will mince your bike and bring it's pretzeled remains back to you with stunning efficiency.

    I wouldn't like to see what happens if an earthquake was to rock the joint....


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    kincsem
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    My guess is your bike would be 100% safe in that system. But my guess is a ban on cycling in Dublin (between the canals) is more likely than that being installed. Not public transport, and yeah, we didn't think about it first.


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    blorg
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    There are a fair few of these for cars; the main advantage is that they can pack the vehicles much more closely and achieve a far higher density than a traditional car park. They can also be much quicker than manually finding a space in a large multi-storey. Of course sometimes they do go wrong, although the technology is pretty mature now.

    Here's the VW example

    For bikes I am not sure it makes so much sense given how little space they take up to begin with.


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    the system grabs the front wheel for stability so the bikes are parked with handle bars to the centre

    if you parked the handle bars first you could fit twice as many bikes on a carsole type system or have the rails move left /right to open up to allow the next bike on

    speed would be a problem 22 seconds would be hard to beat.

    with that system you couldn't leave panniers on the bike as the support at the rear wheel looks a little light


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