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.

Thanksgiving Day parade bike rack. So topical.

I've been hanging on to this goodie of a post for quite some time now, as it's very seasonal and pretty much appropriate exactly one day a year. But friends, that day is TODAY and I'm so excited to present...Macy's (tm) Thanksgiving Day Parade Bike Rack!!!

This treat is from M. Goodman, who actually sent this to me last year but I felt like it deserved prime-time placement for the holidays. As she is one of my favorite people in the whole wide world, not only am I thankful for these photos but for her as well, as she keeps me sane when I am trying to navigate a 12-passenger van and pick up a pizza in rural Iowa.

Anyway, the bike rack featured here is from New York, where the huge parade inflatables are stored, overnight and protected from harm using your standard-issue bike rack. Pretty awesome, if you ask me.

Of course, the bike rack is somewhat secondary to the inflatables themselves. While in the photo above, we have some cute, very PG Christmas ornaments - classic stuff. I only mention the MPAA rating as the next photo, to the right, features Mr. Kermit the Frog in a weird, compromising position. I'm sure he's, uh, totally upright for the parade, but for storage...yikes.

 


So while I'm here - thank YOU to everyone who has sent in photos (and continues to do so) the last two-plus years. Could not do it without everyone. And that's as mushy as I get.

Ahhhh, bike rack. So versatile. For basic bike rack doing what it does best, THREE bicycles, but minus one for the weird storage of Kermit. What would Miss Piggy say?!