I’ve just read this in Design week. I know, I know. Something interesting in Design Week? Whatever next?

Anyway… the Design Council ran a competition to design a way of securing bikes in an urban environment where space is at a premium. Something I’m sure we can all identify with. Apart from you lot who live in castles in the country, obviously. They gave 5 designers 4 weeks and ten grand to come up with solutions. Results are here:

http://www.dexigner.com/news/22545

http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/about-us/Media-centre/Exciting-new-solutions-to-residential-bicycle-theft-unveiled/

Worth a read. Pip pip

probably take about 3 seconds to get past any of those ‘solutions’.

£10,000 to design a small box with a roller door. slightly better than the plant pot i guess.

Wow, what a pile of rubbish!

“Lupin is a portable, lightweight, fixing loop” that’s slid through a door.

Whats the point in that? why not just put your bike behind the locked door instead?

“Lupin is a portable, lightweight, fixing loop” that’s slid through a door.

Whats the point in that? why not just put your bike behind the locked door instead?

The door’s not locked – it gives you something to lock your bike to, and the combination of bike+lock+door is immobile. OK, it’s apparently made from seatbelt webbing which isn’t going to be that long-term secure, but it’d slow any thief down.

waste of £40k 🙄

bulk buying decent locks and handing them out to random commuters would have achieved more

My favourite was the plant pot to lock your bike too. Well done! Alternatively I could lock it to a fence. Or anything else, really. You’re just trying to sell me an expensive plant pot, aren’t you?

They’ll sell loads of them 😀

I like the idea of the arm lock but clearly there’s issues with tube sizing and locating it on the wall. Liked the planter too.

Amazing rubish – none seem to offer anything that would work or is not currently available.

Perhaps these designers dont live in the real world.

If they were student projects then they’d be OK (ish) but for £10k from proffesionals I’d expect a little more.

I saw the plant pot lock quite a few years ago and thought it was a good idea. It allows you to put locking points in city centres and outside shops where there isn’t a fence or anything else.

Hopeless.

I’ve a design….

I think my “bike bell” concept consisting of a suspended capsule (large pipe bolted 8ft up a wall) with a vented but weatherproof top and a door at the base.

Inside a small winch (ruggedized key operated on wall) raises the bike up inside the tube, once the bike is inside, the door at the base is closed & auto locks.

when you come to collect it, as you turn the key, the capsule is opened & the bike is lowered.

The exterior of the tube can be used as advertising/signage space.

Six units could be accommodated within a single free standing open air car parking space. Six capsule pod groups could also be accessed in a mechanized multistory facility.

(c) MrNutt 2010

Thats my idea, buy it if you like! 😀

dim witted designers who have no grasp of reality shocker !!

why not spend the money and create some jobs and have guarded compounds in busy city spots. like a coatroom?

why not spend the money and create some jobs and have guarded compounds in busy city spots. like a coatroom?

That pretty much used to exist in Leicester, had showers and changing rooms too. Dunno if it’s still there.