Bicycle Security Advisors promotes better bike parking and fights bike theft.
Seattle, WA
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NPR's @planetmoney / The Indicator covers the efforts of "Stolen Bike Recovery Professional" Bryan Hance of @BikeIndex to uncover a Mexico-California bike theft ring, with an interview of Christopher Solomon of @WIRED.
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Read Christopher's article about Bryan's efforts in @wired.
wired.com/story/silicon-vall…
California is updating its Green Building Standards with improved bike parking requirements. Public comment period closed July 1.
Residential standard: long-term parking for 50% of units.
dgs.ca.gov/BSC/Rulemaking/20…
Commercial standard:
Short-term parking for 20% of building visitors.
Long-term parking for 10% of building tenant-occupants.
@CalBike expressed its concerns with the standards and exemptions:
cal.streetsblog.org/2024/06/…
Bicycle Security Adv retweeted
Bike Parking at the QFC in Wallingford is often full in the evening. 2 thoughts:
1. We need more bike parking
2. With most businesses on arterials streets, people need bike lanes on arterials
ALT A busy bike parking at QFC
1. Always lock your frame + at least 1 wheel. It's a simple way to protect more of your bike and to ensure your bike doesn't roll around on the rack (if it rolls, something could get bent/damaged).
2. Even better to use two locks to lock both wheels.
A quality u-lock through the frame and around a bike rack is usually sufficient, unless you have a high end bike (or a hub drive e-bike) and then folks might come after your wheels. Longer u-locks you can sometimes lock a wheel too, like in this graphic from @BikeSecurityAdv
3. If your lock is too small to lock a wheel as shown in our graphic, consider locking your wheel to a rack through your chainstay triangle. It's near impossible to remove your wheel with a lock through it
This is the Sheldon Brown Method.
youtu.be/tGng3FSBphg?si=9qeD…
Hey @SeattleOPCD @SeattleSDCI & @PBOTinfo, we're now *way* behind the EU #bikeparking standards.
ecf.com/news-and-events/news…
We have these same bad bike racks in Seattle, too, @roadcc.
road.cc/content/news/cycling…
Great to see the bike racks well-used at the Bathhouse Theatre at Green Lake. @mnschwin @SeattleParks
