In the prestigious offices of FMFT we like a good engineering solution almost as much as we like debating mathematical probability and refusing to accept the correct answer to a question.
As such, we are avid readers of such websites as Action Storage and share their tremendous excitement that the money being released to a number of London boroughs for cycling may well be used to pay for cycle parking. Guess who has a convenient range of popular cycle storage and parking solutions, just waiting to ship? That’s right, Action Storage. (Other bike rack providers are available.) I genuinely do like some of their storage solutions, and, aside form cost and space issues, would love to have my own vertical bike locker for example.
Also on the same website I learned that shops might need more shelving to entice female “spontaneous” shoppers in the sales. Although looking at the picture, it seems that the products women buy on impulse are tins of paint, fertiliser and brown storage boxes.
From the eminently practical we’re off to the utterly bonkers, as Bulgarian architect Martin Angelov has designed an overhead bike lane based on steel wires flying high above the city streets. Called Kolelinia, it is supposed to work on bikes running along steel gutters, attached at the handlebars to a steel wire guide. It seems utterly mad, and highly dangerous, but you never know, I guess it’s the craziest ideas that often lead to the biggest breakthroughs.
The original design was submitted as part of the Line of Site competition to find innovative transport solutions. The entries ranged from the predictable hire bike-type scheme, via cycle facility hubs and cycle tunnels, to the adventurous cycle storage solutions. It’s good to note that almost every design submitted in 2008 included cycling in some form.
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