Now we move on to the increasingly more, ah, secure versions of bike rack in the city of Jakarta, Indonesia. You can see they've moved past the innocuous red-and-white-striped variety, and now manufacture bike rack in the colors of a bumblebee: black and yellow, which already say "danger! Stay away!"
And it's even got the signature bee sting in the form of spikes on not only the top of the barricade, but also the bottom, rendering the actual racking of bikes impossible.
Confusing, yes, but goes to show that this particular bike rack was meant for barricade, not for racking anything mobile. Its the equivalent of trying to park your car in a spot that has tire spikes pointing straight out.
Not sure what the hell this bike rack is actually protecting right now, other than standing guard at probably the nicest mall in all of Indonesia (we're bourgeois like that), but I'm not going to debate its current function.
That said, if I were in a pushy crowd and trying to escape, I'd definitely think twice about climbing over this rack for fear of puncturing myself. I mean, this is some mean bike rack (that can't actually rack bikes).
Then again, wait until you see the ultimate in Indonesian security...stay tuned!
For a gripping three-part post about...bike rack, THREE bicycles out of four. One for each post. Duh.
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