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Where to buy a good bike shelter for my son's primary school?

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  1. Subject line almost says it all... Head says she is going to apply for
    funding to get a bicycle rack (will be an improvement on the chain link
    fence we currently lock my son's bike, to). I want to persuade her to
    try to get something with a roof on it (open-sided, probably).

    Who makes bike shelters? These people don't do pictures:

    http://www.safetyshop.com/asp/showcat.asp?category=G020000&searchstring=

    This has the type of racks I hate, too small, anyway:

    http://www.bikecare.co.uk/shelters.html

    & this one, too expensive!

    http://www.action-storage.co.uk/lockers/cyclerack.asp

    Is there something inbetween... Head says she is going to apply to DoT
    for funding, at least, but still I think 2k will be well beyond the
    budget.

    TIA -julii

  2. zebra said:


    Subject line almost says it all... Head says she is going to apply for
    funding to get a bicycle rack (will be an improvement on the chain link
    fence we currently lock my son's bike, to). I want to persuade her to
    try to get something with a roof on it (open-sided, probably).

    Who makes bike shelters? These people don't do pictures:

    http://www.safetyshop.com/asp/showcat.asp?category=G020000&searchstring=

    This has the type of racks I hate, too small, anyway:

    http://www.bikecare.co.uk/shelters.html

    & this one, too expensive!

    http://www.action-storage.co.uk/lockers/cyclerack.asp

    Is there something inbetween... Head says she is going to apply to DoT
    for funding, at least, but still I think 2k will be well beyond the
    budget.

    TIA -julii

    http://www.falco.nl/en.htm (i hate these IE sites)
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    Marten Gerritsen

    INFOapestaartjeM-GINEERINGpuntNL
    www.m-gineering.nl

  3. zebra said:

    Subject line almost says it all... Head says she is going to apply for
    funding to get a bicycle rack (will be an improvement on the chain link
    fence we currently lock my son's bike, to). I want to persuade her to
    try to get something with a roof on it (open-sided, probably).

    Contact the CTC and speak to Dave Holladay who is an engineer
    specialising in bike infrastructure.

    [email hidden]

    ...d

  4. zebra said:

    Subject line almost says it all... Head says she is going to apply for
    funding to get a bicycle rack (will be an improvement on the chain link
    fence we currently lock my son's bike, to). I want to persuade her to
    try to get something with a roof on it (open-sided, probably).

    Contact the CTC and speak to Dave Holladay who is an engineer
    specialising in bike infrastructure.

    [email hidden]

    ...d

  5. zebra said:

    Subject line almost says it all.

    Are you anywhere vaguely rustic ? Go to a farm shop and ask who
    builds shelters for sheep. You'll get a bloke with a tape measure who
    turns up a few weeks later with a load of glaved steel pipe and
    corrugated steel.

    Another way is to get an upper school CDT class to design it.
    Depending on the school they might also make it, or they might
    outsource it to a local fabricator (for outsourcing is what passes for
    vocational traiing anyway, rant, rant). If you involve the local free
    newspaper with offers of cute pictures of smiling kids and their
    construction, that's also a good bargaining counter with the
    fabricator - who has the photos taken in front of their office and
    prominent logo. Caption it with some tosh about "local community".

    --
    Smert' spamionam

  6. Andy Dingley said:

    Another way is to get an upper school CDT class to design it.
    Depending on the school they might also make it, or they might
    outsource it to a local fabricator (for outsourcing is what passes for
    vocational traiing anyway, rant, rant). If you involve the local free
    newspaper with offers of cute pictures of smiling kids and their
    construction, that's also a good bargaining counter with the
    fabricator - who has the photos taken in front of their office and
    prominent logo. Caption it with some tosh about "local community".

    Your cynicism is fantastic. Ever considered a career in politics? ;-)

    Jon

  7. Jon Senior said:

    Your cynicism is fantastic.

    You took the word out of my mouth sir.

  8. zebra said:

    Subject line almost says it all... Head says she is going to apply for
    funding to get a bicycle rack (will be an improvement on the chain link
    fence we currently lock my son's bike, to). I want to persuade her to
    try to get something with a roof on it (open-sided, probably).

    http://www.keyind.co.uk/

    The paper cat is better than the online...

  9. Badger said:

    The paper cat is better than the online...

    I clearly need more sleep. I just spent a minute trying to work out the
    meaning of that profound sounding sentence before I worked out
    cat(alogue). ;-)

    Jon

  10. In article <[email hidden]>,

    Jon Senior jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOT_co_DOT_uk said:
    Badger said:

    The paper cat is better than the online...

    I clearly need more sleep. I just spent a minute trying to work out the
    meaning of that profound sounding sentence before I worked out
    cat(alogue). ;-)

    That's your *human* reaction. But isn't it a rash assumption when you're
    following up to *Badger*?

    --
    Nick Kew

  11. On 7 Jan 2005 13:16:10 -0800 someone who may be "zebra"
    <[email hidden]> wrote this:-

    Quoted message said:

    Subject line almost says it all... Head says she is going to apply for
    funding to get a bicycle rack (will be an improvement on the chain link
    fence we currently lock my son's bike, to). I want to persuade her to
    try to get something with a roof on it (open-sided, probably).

    Not a direct answer to the question, but a point to ponder.

    In Edinburgh they found that a standard Sheffield Stand is not
    particularly good for small bikes. However, adding a bar about
    halfway up the stand makes it far better for such bikes.

    I take it that http://www.saferoutestoschools.org.uk/index.php has
    nothing useful.

    --
    David Hansen, Edinburgh | PGP email preferred-key number F566DA0E
    I will always explain revoked keys, unless the UK government
    prevents me by using the RIP Act 2000.

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