Gérard Massip
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
Bonjour / Hi
I'm beginning a thread in french about cycling and cycling policy in
North America
Je commence un fil en français sur la bicyclette en Amérique du Nord,
avec une petite présentation en anglais pour les internautes US
connaissant notre langue.
On 5 mar, 19:40, "Ron Richings" <richi...@telus.net> wrote:
> Just ran across this British design - appears that it will be in production
> soon.
>
> Looks to be stronger than the Toronto-style circular add-ons. Could be an
> inexpensive way to add bike parking/locking places.
>
> Anyone know of a similar product produced in North America?
>
> If you can't see the photos, try http://quickrelease.tv/?p=343
>
> Ron Richings
>
> Vancouver, BC
>
> Canada
>
> Anthony Lau, a design student at the University of Westminster, created his
> Cyclehoop http://www.cyclehoop.com street furniture fitting in 2006. It
> appeared in the Reinventing http://www.reinventingthebikeshed.com the
> Bike Shed exhibition in 2006, will soon go on trial in London and could bag
> Lau the top prize in the new, Government-backed HSBC Unipreneurs Awards
http://www.unipreneurs.hsbc.co.uk/final_20.php .
>
http://www.cyclehoop.com HisCyclehoops have the potential to sell
like
> hotcakes. They bolt on to existing street posts, require no concreting-in
> and they force the cyclist to lock his or her bike down by the bottom
> bracket rather than the top-tube. This is right place to lock a bike, as
> evidenced in this bike security article http://quickrelease.tv/?p=327 .
>
> Lau told Quickrelease.tv: "I'm drawing up a list of tips on locking
> techniques. These will be displayed graphically on the Cyclehoop as a
> sticker."
>
> The HSBC Unipreneurs Awards are presented in association with the National
> Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship.
>
> The overall winner will be decided at a gala evening at BAFTA on 23rd April,
> when five finalists will be quizzed live on-stage by a panel of experts
> about their business and why they deserve to be crowned HSBC Unipreneur
> 2008. Afterwards, a specially invited audience of 200 guests, drawn from the
> worlds of business, government and the media, will vote for the candidate
> who has impressed the most and decide who will walk away with the top title.
>
> Whether Lau wins the award or not, his Cyclehoop design is simple and cheap
> to install. Local authorities with budgets for installing secure cycle
> racking will be impressed by Cyclehoops. Designer Wayne Hemingway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHokbFBFgL0 certainly was.
>
> Hemingway was one of the judges at Reinventing the Bike Shed. I was at his
> home yesterday, interviewing him for Cycling Plus magazine. When I asked him
> about cycle security, he launched into a paean of praise for the Cyclehoop..
Il s'agit du recyclage d'anciens parcmètres en poteaux antivols
d'accrochages de vélos. A suivre dans
http://groups.google.com/group/trans-action/browse_thread/thread/1cdb4565b4661724#
dans le googlegroupe http://groups.google.com/group/trans-action
Salutations
Gérard Massip
I'm beginning a thread in french about cycling and cycling policy in
North America
Je commence un fil en français sur la bicyclette en Amérique du Nord,
avec une petite présentation en anglais pour les internautes US
connaissant notre langue.
On 5 mar, 19:40, "Ron Richings" <richi...@telus.net> wrote:
> Just ran across this British design - appears that it will be in production
> soon.
>
> Looks to be stronger than the Toronto-style circular add-ons. Could be an
> inexpensive way to add bike parking/locking places.
>
> Anyone know of a similar product produced in North America?
>
> If you can't see the photos, try http://quickrelease.tv/?p=343
>
> Ron Richings
>
> Vancouver, BC
>
> Canada
>
> Anthony Lau, a design student at the University of Westminster, created his
> Cyclehoop http://www.cyclehoop.com street furniture fitting in 2006. It
> appeared in the Reinventing http://www.reinventingthebikeshed.com the
> Bike Shed exhibition in 2006, will soon go on trial in London and could bag
> Lau the top prize in the new, Government-backed HSBC Unipreneurs Awards
http://www.unipreneurs.hsbc.co.uk/final_20.php .
>
http://www.cyclehoop.com HisCyclehoops have the potential to sell
like
> hotcakes. They bolt on to existing street posts, require no concreting-in
> and they force the cyclist to lock his or her bike down by the bottom
> bracket rather than the top-tube. This is right place to lock a bike, as
> evidenced in this bike security article http://quickrelease.tv/?p=327 .
>
> Lau told Quickrelease.tv: "I'm drawing up a list of tips on locking
> techniques. These will be displayed graphically on the Cyclehoop as a
> sticker."
>
> The HSBC Unipreneurs Awards are presented in association with the National
> Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship.
>
> The overall winner will be decided at a gala evening at BAFTA on 23rd April,
> when five finalists will be quizzed live on-stage by a panel of experts
> about their business and why they deserve to be crowned HSBC Unipreneur
> 2008. Afterwards, a specially invited audience of 200 guests, drawn from the
> worlds of business, government and the media, will vote for the candidate
> who has impressed the most and decide who will walk away with the top title.
>
> Whether Lau wins the award or not, his Cyclehoop design is simple and cheap
> to install. Local authorities with budgets for installing secure cycle
> racking will be impressed by Cyclehoops. Designer Wayne Hemingway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHokbFBFgL0 certainly was.
>
> Hemingway was one of the judges at Reinventing the Bike Shed. I was at his
> home yesterday, interviewing him for Cycling Plus magazine. When I asked him
> about cycle security, he launched into a paean of praise for the Cyclehoop..
Il s'agit du recyclage d'anciens parcmètres en poteaux antivols
d'accrochages de vélos. A suivre dans
http://groups.google.com/group/trans-action/browse_thread/thread/1cdb4565b4661724#
dans le googlegroupe http://groups.google.com/group/trans-action
Salutations
Gérard Massip