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.

Tiny wee bike rack in Exeter, New Hampsire

Today's hilarious bike rack adventure comes from J.W. Slider, who is not only a very talented writer but also excellent at spotting my favorite barricade. My friends are the greatest. Anyway, he found this variety in Exeter, New Hampshire, just hanging out in a room, waiting for its closeup.

Not sure what this is used for -  a little hard to get the scale of this thing, but it appears to be no taller than 2.5 feet tall. This is not the first time we've seen bike rack in miniature - remember this fine specimen from El Paso, Texas? I guess there's a demand for it somewhere...is it used to keep tiny horses at bay? Little kids? (Me? I am admittedly five feet tall, so this would take me a second or two to hop over.)

For bike rack that's barely over two feet...TWO bicycles out of four. One for each foot it covers. Thanks Slider!

Super tiny bike rack in El Paso, Texas

B.Becnel has some, ahem, spicy bike rack in this edition of BRATW - no, ladies and gents, this is NOT a photo of Paul Bunyon-esque fellow next to normal bike rack, but rather something else. Something to truly behold and treasure - a brand new species not seen before on this blog.


Miniature. Bike. Rack.

Awesome.

I know there's a stereotype of girls always thinking the tiny things out there are just so adorable (babies, kittens, little bottles of condiments that accompany your burgers in hotel room service, the wee bottles of shampoo that come with your hotel room, the miniature mints on your hotel pillow - good lord, I spend a lot of time in hotels), but come ON. Tiny bike rack! Who wouldn't think this was so cute!

Mr. Becnel found this in El Paso, Texas. I am a bit stymied to think what the hell it could be barricading or used for. Tiny crowds? Tiny horses? PONIES?!?!?!?! (Squee! Clearly, I've channeled my ten-year-old self today.) The possibilities are endless.

For finding bike rack that would make ME look statuesque (all five feet of me), TWO bicycles out of four, one bicycle for each foot of height. An additional bicycle for the excellent addition of matching cap and plaid shirt. Well played, sir.