Our local hardware store now allows me to park my bike by the cashiers since (a) they know us so well and (b) they love the look of the bike. Of course they also display a classic cars in their entry occasionally. I also do most of my grocery shopping at Whole Foods now despite my feelings about them. I shop there because they have bike lockers. I used to fear getting there to find all 12 used but that fear quickly subsided when I discovered the most used at any given time I've been there is 2. Kinda sad really. It would be nice to live in a world where they need more bike lockers than car spaces.
Of course fights break out over the electric vehicle charging stations! That's life in the Bay Area I guess. John On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 3:17:46 PM UTC-8, Lungimsam wrote: > > I notice that bike lockable metal sign poles in front of retailers, > offices, stores, etc. seem to be getting phased out in favor of those > concrete pillars from which the metal sign poles erupt at about 4' off the > ground. Making it hard to find a sign pole to lock up to with a U lock. > > I have noticed this more and more as I pull up to stores and offices and > seems like sometimes there is...just...no...place...to lock up. > > I had to lock my Bleriot to a railing on a neighboring business's patio > with my bike 3 feet off the ground on Monday and then had to lock up around > the side of a building to their meter power line on the same day, different > stop. > > I use a U lock and don't want to use a cable lock, so this is kind of a > bummer to me. > > The upside is that I guess a thief won't try to cut a power line. The > downside is that electrical hazard to the rider; the fact that it is > probably against the law to lock up to private property; and the fact that > if someone would have seen me they would have thought I was messing with > their power meter and they probably would have had the cops down on me in > no time. So I won't be doing that again. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
