Yelm & College, Lacey
disclaimer: I work for TwinStar, but this blog has no relationship to my employer. Also, this is not the location where I work.
Every bike lockup in this whole shopping complex is terrible. This one, although with a clever ramp approach, is no exception. I guess I should give it points for not even pretending to be covered. Note the VAST SWATHS of car parking, mostly for buildings that have yet to be constructed.
Couldn’t they have put up one more shelter to go over the bike parking?
Lilly Rd, Olympia
I posted this earlier, but this is in actual rain. And where I thought would be sheltered, wasn’t. At least my saddle stayed dry!
Note the soaked-through gloves and the puddle in my Xtracycle bag.
Yelm & College, Lacey
This is where I actually park, most of the time, when I go to Lowes, instead of in the normal bike parking.
Yelm & College, Lacey
So I’ve posted this spot before, but today it was raining, which meant I had to park on the inner side. Which meant that I got to look like a jerk, trying to move my bike and an abandoned cart out of the way of a woman with a cart full of groceries and a little kid. Thanks a lot, Safeway.
A quick link to a post about bicycles in Amsterdam – Fietsen Van Amsterdam – which is mostly about the bicycles themselves, but has some interesting photos of bike parking at the beginning. Wow. Not a lot of cover, but amazing capacity. And check out the striped parking at the grocery store!
Deschutes River at Chehalis-Western Trail.
It’s not that one really expects good bike parking on the trail, but it does illustrate a basic bike parking concern. The cars that park out by the road are basically self-securing, but bicycles really need something to be attached to! And even then, I get a little nervy having them out of sight.
Luckily, there’s a pretty decent setup, with some trees close to the spot where we usually hang out.
Lilly Rd, Olympia
Nice spot, plenty of capacity…no cover. (There’s another parking spot on the other side, no cover there either.)
