Mini and maxi bike rack - and the return of the blog

Ladies and gentlemen. I've been very remiss lately, and I apologize. But this blog is here to stay, and dammit, I WILL update it. Hopefully more often than every seven months.

My passion for bike rack has not waned, nor has yours - I get photos of bike rack every week, so there's lots of good material here.

So, let's kick this off with a mega issue of bike rack small and tall. Now, this is not a new topic. You can see tiny bike rack here and here, and large bike rack here - but it keeps popping up wherever bike rack might be needed. Which is EVERYWHERE. (This blog would be completely moot if that weren't true...clearly.)

From my dear M. Hardin comes this entry from a Walgreens in Davenport, Iowa. It's small, it's clearly just for actual bikes, but it fits the profile - you can move it, you can use it for barricade for, um, less statuesque people, etc. So maybe bike rack for people my height?

Mr. Rose sends us this example from New Orleans. While not exactly tiny in height, it's got some....length issues. I guess it's not the size, it's how you use it? (Rim shot)

Not to be outdone, the J.W. Slider caught this tiny painted version in the U.K. (Londontown to be exact) guarding...well, I'm not sure exactly what it's guarding but it's doing one hell of a job.

Off topic - why is that plastic chair chained to a dolly?



The last entry features the ladies showing off the tall, tall bikerack. My BFF M. Goodman submitted this entry of some formidable height, guest-starring one D. Rosenzweig and C. Waitekus at UPenn. Looking good, ladies. Looking. Good. But what is that for? That is some serious barricading off. I mean, Crystal is one tall lady - god knows how shrunken I would have looked next to it. (Very, is the answer.)

Thanks to everyone for playing. Clearly one bicycle for every photo posted here. FOUR bicycles out of four.



Also, thanks to everyone for reading and continuously sending me photos. Don't stop doing that. Ever.

More London bike rack and an accidental Love Actually recap

Ahhh, London. I've never been personally, but I hear it's pretty awesome. It DID look cool pretty awesome in Love Actually. (And guys, I know you love this movie. It always get cited by dudes as "I don't watch chick flicks, but man! Hugh Grant was great in that!" Anyway. I digress.) I mean, they have bike rack directly in front of the Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street. (Remember that scene where Hugh Grant just got elected PM and walks into his residence for the first time and gets inside the hall and sighs like he's thinking "Good lord..." - I've done it again. Sorry.)

According to P. Padilla, the journalists just lock their camera tripods to the bike rack, so that they can take off and have a cuppa tea or whatever it is they do, and also have prime PM-watching space. So smart, those Brits. I love that the journalists clearly came equipped with some ghetto bike chain.

As for the bike rack - kind of an interesting flat  base design going on here, too, that's different from most other bike rack I've seen before, but I appreciate that there is a bit of a handle-like design on the top to facilitate it's movement around.

Next up - some pretty spectacular bike rack found in the hall of Christ Church in Oxford (not to be confused with the bunch of other Christ Churches in England...and there are quite a few). Sigh of relief for you, dear reader - I'm not going to talk about Love Actually! Because duh, Christ Church wasn't in that movie, but it WAS in the Harry Potter movies as the site of the great hall. Thanks to B. Shannon (or Shenanigans) for submitting this - not only is this in a great spot, but looks like standard bike rack is also available across the pond for all your barricading needs.

For making me turn on the Pointer Sister's song that ol' Mickey Blue Eyes is dancing around to, and remind me that the last Harry Potter movie is coming out this month (!!! Let's hope it's not the emo-fest the last one was), THREE bicycles out of four.

Buckingham Palace bike rack. Can't get more regal than this!

With all the news of a certain someones getting married recently (they have their own website? I guess that's normal for most married couples, I guess, but how long in advance do you think did they have to register that domain name?), this particular bike rack post from my favorite enabler, B.Shannon (or "Shenanigans" as I like to call him) is quite timely.

But really, I think bike rack is newsworthy in its own right! I don't need no stinkin' wedding to find this photo fascinating.

Shenanigans has managed to find barricade that you might not want to chain your bike to - it looks about as old and crumbly as the original London Bridge - rusted, with some weird triangular base design holding it up. I'll say this, ol' chap - I wouldn't want to have to move that around, it looks far more unwieldy than the usual unwieldy bike rack I feature on this blog.

THREE bicycles out of four - it'd have gotten the full rating but I am American and I have to give some sort of knee-jerk slap in the face to our British counterparts. So take that, Buckingham Palace!