Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: biking in copenhagen

[Nancy Baumeister (nancybee]

 We have a bike building that we call the bike barn. At last inventory it had:

> In the bike barn last Sunday there were 61 adult bikes, 16
> kids bikes, 9 trailers (+1 sidecar), 8 trailabikes, 4 recumbents, 5
> tandems, and 3 trikes. (Not including bike items on individuals'
> porches or on the path.
You can see it at https://www.cohoecovillage.org/homes/plans/sitedesign.800.jpg.
It's the long building between the community and the parking lot. It is 
unheated.

We are planning to create a pool of loaner bikes and trailers which could be 
for use by anybody- residents or guests.
 We also have a bicycle repair area in the bike barn, and a section with extra 
security for bikes.

Nancy
cohoecovillage.org


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On 9/29/2010 7:40 AM, Fred H Olson wrote:
> On 26 Sep 2010  Seanain Snow wrote:
>
> > Laura - Thanks a lot for posting this link. It gives me hope as a
> > cyclist and fond memories of a long-ago visit to Copenhagen. I live in
> > a "biking town" (Davis, CA), but Copenhagen clearly puts us to shame.
> A number of the cohousing communities we visited way back in 1999
> had bicycle parking rooms or sheds.    For example:
> http://l.cohousing.org/dk99/tourpix/JE_bikerm.jpg
> Ideally such things have a separate or easy access from outdoors.  I
> think many buildings in Europe (wich is generally way ahead of us in
> biking) have bike rooms.
>
> Do any US communities have bike parking rooms?
>
> Seanin also wrote:
> > I especially likes the additional video on cargo bikes, as that's what
> > many of us need to make biking a real alternative to cars.
> Here in Minneapolis more and more stretched frame bikes that have more
> room to carry things on the back are showing up.  Recently I realized
> that the recumbent bike I've been riding for about a year ( see
> http://fholson.cohousing.org/bicycles/sunez5.jpg )
> has potential for carrying more because the pedals wont bump into things
> suspended from the rack.  I have yet to develop this potential.
>
> FRed
>
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