New Delhi surprise

We are taking a small break from our regularly scheduled programming of "Indonesian Bike Rack" to bring you bike rack of a different flavor - same continent, same prefix (sort of), but different country and VERY different bike rack: India.

Yes, today's bike rack post comes from New Delhi, from collaborateur and man-about-town D.Ceasar (unless one Spicy decides to send me some photos of his own).*** Mr. Ceasar notes that the various types of barricade shown to the right and below are notable mostly for their wide variety and distinct lack of bike-racking-ability.

No vertical bars = not a great chance of being able to lock my bike up. Coupled with the addition of wheels on all the barricades, well...a crafty (or not so crafty) thief could just roll off with both items!

Anyway, I'll hand it to the New Delhi Police

- or is it just the hipper moniker of "Delhi Police," as it says on the barricade - they know how to brand and make it really clear just who owns the bike rack. The rest of the metal? I don't know what to think of it.

Let's break it down:

+1 for wheels! I love wheels.

-1 for inconsistency.

+1 for keeping it interesting. I guess variety is the "spice of life" and spices come from India? (Yes, that was a stretch, leave me alone.)

+1 for painted barricade, but -1 for it being predominantly yellow and red. (Shudder.)

+1 for the weirdo slanted roof things. Way to discourage anyone from climbing over by promising infertility.

-1 for inability to actually rack bikes

+1 for being so intimidating that there aren't actually crowds pressed up against the rack, and in the wide shot photo, people's backs are actually to the bike rack. They won't even LOOK at it.

So that means a whopping TWO bicycles out of FOUR bicycles.

*** Okay, Team Mumbai. I'm looking at you to help fill the Indian gap here.