Shelters

"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Has anyone seen any particularly good enclosed secure shelters? My
firm wants to put up a secure weatherproof bike store. I'd like to
track down the makers of some good ones.

http://www.welconstruct.co.uk/category/category.cfm?classid=8333
http://www.trimetals.co.uk/bicycle-storage.php?m=4&g=9
http://www.action-storage.co.uk/newpages/cycleshelters.asp
http://www.urbanengineering.co.uk/index.php?cPath=21/cycle/storage

That could be a start at least

Cheers, helen s

in message <[email hidden]>, Just zis Guy,

you know? (') said:

Has anyone seen any particularly good enclosed secure shelters? My
firm wants to put up a secure weatherproof bike store. I'd like to
track down the makers of some good ones.

Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary has not long since installed a
shelter which has a sturdy framework of square section steel clad with a
transparent plastic - polycarbonate? - and reasonably secure sliding
doors. The whole structure looks like an over-engineered polytunnel,
being roughly semicircular in elevation; it's about six metres wide,
allowing for bikes to be parked on either side of a central walkway, and
being modular I imagine can be supplied in different lengths to store
different numbers of bikes. An evildoer could probably cut through the
cladding with an anglegrinder or similar, but short of that it's
reasonably secure and very weatherproof, and because it's transparent
what people are doing inside it is visible and will be recorded on any
suitably located security camera.

Seems fit for purpose. Don't know what make it is but could find out.

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you know? said:

Has anyone seen any particularly good enclosed secure shelters? My
firm wants to put up a secure weatherproof bike store. I'd like to
track down the makers of some good ones.

We used http://www.ablecanopies.co.uk/ for a wet weather shelter for
parents collecting their children from school. It would be trivial to
fit Sheffield stands underneath. The shelter is built to last and the
company is very professional.

Secure stores are a problem. They encourage people to leave their
bikes unlocked and as there has to be some level of access, unlocked
bikes tend to go missing unless huge amounts of money is spent on
security. They can also pose access problems themselves. Holding a
bike while using a swipe card which doesn't want to swipe in the rain
can be awkward.

In my opinion it is a better and cheaper option to have a visible
covered area with sheffield stands, and issue strong locks to
cyclists, keeping spare keys in a safe. For its deterrent value fit a
false camera, or for its deterrent value and to help the police in the
event of a theft fit a CCTV.

Just zis Guy, you know? wrote on 23/07/2006 11:04 +0100:

Quoted message said:

Has anyone seen any particularly good enclosed secure shelters? My
firm wants to put up a secure weatherproof bike store. I'd like to
track down the makers of some good ones.

Here's some good and interesting ones. I particularly like the Cyclepod
one and the Wardale Compound second.

http://www.cyclepods.co.uk/index2.htm
http://www.broxap.com/categories.asp?cID=25
http://www.reinventingthebikeshed.com/

--
Tony

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his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

Just zis Guy said:

Has anyone seen any particularly good enclosed secure shelters? My
firm wants to put up a secure weatherproof bike store. I'd like to
track down the makers of some good ones.

Loads here:
http://www.ctc.org.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=4330

John B

you know? said:

Has anyone seen any particularly good enclosed secure shelters? My
firm wants to put up a secure weatherproof bike store. I'd like to
track down the makers of some good ones.

http://www.sekura-byk.co.uk/
http://www.sekura-byk.co.uk/frm_lock.htm

(they provided the stands for the new secure storage facility at Finsbury Park).

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"Perfection [in design] is achieved not when there is nothing left to add,
but rather when there is nothing left to take away."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Simon Brooke said:

in message <[email hidden]>, Just zis Guy,

you know? (') said:

Has anyone seen any particularly good enclosed secure shelters? My
firm wants to put up a secure weatherproof bike store. I'd like to
track down the makers of some good ones.

Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary has not long since installed a
shelter which has a sturdy framework of square section steel clad with a
transparent plastic - polycarbonate? - and reasonably secure sliding
doors. The whole structure looks like an over-engineered polytunnel,

bit like these?

http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/~dmamartin/sheds.html

Quoted message said:

being roughly semicircular in elevation; it's about six metres wide,
allowing for bikes to be parked on either side of a central walkway, and
being modular I imagine can be supplied in different lengths to store
different numbers of bikes. An evildoer could probably cut through the
cladding with an anglegrinder or similar, but short of that it's
reasonably secure and very weatherproof, and because it's transparent
what people are doing inside it is visible and will be recorded on any
suitably located security camera.

Seems fit for purpose. Don't know what make it is but could find out.

There is a label inside ours and I can look at it on monday. There is
some talk of fitting a suitable grille inside to make them a bit more
theif proof, personally I think that would make an excellent frame fro
training grapes or cucumbers.

...d

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:03:03 +0100, John B <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Just zis Guy said:

Has anyone seen any particularly good enclosed secure shelters? My
firm wants to put up a secure weatherproof bike store. I'd like to
track down the makers of some good ones.

Loads here:
http://www.ctc.org.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=4330

Some of the lockers look very good.

in message <[email hidden]>, David

Martin (') said:

Simon Brooke said:

in message <[email hidden]>, Just zis Guy,

you know? (') said:

Has anyone seen any particularly good enclosed secure shelters? My
firm wants to put up a secure weatherproof bike store. I'd like to
track down the makers of some good ones.

Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary has not long since installed a
shelter which has a sturdy framework of square section steel clad with
a transparent plastic - polycarbonate? - and reasonably secure sliding
doors. The whole structure looks like an over-engineered polytunnel,

bit like these?

http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/~dmamartin/sheds.html

That's the one.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

being roughly semicircular in elevation; it's about six metres wide,
allowing for bikes to be parked on either side of a central walkway,
and being modular I imagine can be supplied in different lengths to
store different numbers of bikes. An evildoer could probably cut
through the cladding with an anglegrinder or similar, but short of
that it's reasonably secure and very weatherproof, and because it's
transparent what people are doing inside it is visible and will be
recorded on any suitably located security camera.

Seems fit for purpose. Don't know what make it is but could find out.

There is a label inside ours and I can look at it on monday. There is
some talk of fitting a suitable grille inside to make them a bit more
theif proof, personally I think that would make an excellent frame fro
training grapes or cucumbers.

Yup, make a good greenhouse.

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;; I'll have a proper rant later, when I get the time.

Tony Raven said:

Here's some good and interesting ones. I particularly like the Cyclepod
one ....

http://www.cyclepods.co.uk/index2.htm

Except that the Cyclepod looks very much as if a bike with small wheels
(20", 17" or 16"😉 wouldn't fit, certainly not if had a deraileur, and
anything with a rear mudguard also wouldn't. Notice how every bike in
their photos is a mudguardless on 26" or 27" wheels?

Mike

Alan J. Wylie said:

you know? said:

Has anyone seen any particularly good enclosed secure shelters? My
firm wants to put up a secure weatherproof bike store. I'd like to
track down the makers of some good ones.

http://www.sekura-byk.co.uk/
http://www.sekura-byk.co.uk/frm_lock.htm

(they provided the stands for the new secure storage facility at Finsbury Park).

Luckily, they also make Sheffield Stands, which are far more
convenient to use.

Broxap and Cycle-works got the contract for bike parking for London
schools. One school I saw has a Broxap shed about 5m long with two
huge gates that open a whole side to get bikes in and out freely. With
few or small entrances you have to allow circulating space within the
building - and it's tempting not to allow enough.

Colin McKenzie

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On average in Britain, you're more likely to get a head injury walking
a mile than cycling it.
So why aren't we all exhorted to wear walking helmets?

Colin McKenzie said:

Alan J. Wylie said:

you know? said:

Has anyone seen any particularly good enclosed secure shelters? My
firm wants to put up a secure weatherproof bike store. I'd like to
track down the makers of some good ones.

http://www.sekura-byk.co.uk/
http://www.sekura-byk.co.uk/frm_lock.htm

(they provided the stands for the new secure storage facility at Finsbury Park).

Luckily, they also make Sheffield Stands, which are far more
convenient to use.

Broxap and Cycle-works got the contract for bike parking for London
schools. One school I saw has a Broxap shed about 5m long with two
huge gates that open a whole side to get bikes in and out freely. With
few or small entrances you have to allow circulating space within the
building - and it's tempting not to allow enough.

The label on the stands in our new sheds says Broxap, but that is no
guarantee that the main sheds were made by them as well. If bodies are
interested I can enquire further. Email off list if you really want to
know who built them.

...d

Quoted message said:

Colin McKenzie

--
On average in Britain, you're more likely to get a head injury walking
a mile than cycling it.
So why aren't we all exhorted to wear walking helmets?

David Martin wrote on 24/07/2006 09:03 +0100:

Quoted message said:

The label on the stands in our new sheds says Broxap, but that is no
guarantee that the main sheds were made by them as well. If bodies
are interested I can enquire further. Email off list if you really
want to know who built them.

I posted the link to Broxap earlier in the thread but I think many of
their sheds come from overseas and they are the UK dealer.

--
Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

Tony Raven said:

David Martin wrote on 24/07/2006 09:03 +0100:

Quoted message said:

The label on the stands in our new sheds says Broxap, but that is no
guarantee that the main sheds were made by them as well. If bodies
are interested I can enquire further. Email off list if you really
want to know who built them.

I posted the link to Broxap earlier in the thread but I think many of
their sheds come from overseas and they are the UK dealer.

Having followed the link - these do look very much like those that we
have.

There are several advantages for a school - clear sides so you can see
if anyone is messing with the bikes, lockable, and easy to maintain.

Not sure how fireproof the plastic would be..

...d

Quoted message said:

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Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

Mike Causer said:

Tony Raven said:

Here's some good and interesting ones. I particularly like the Cyclepod
one ....
http://www.cyclepods.co.uk/index2.htm

Except that the Cyclepod looks very much as if a bike with small wheels
(20", 17" or 16"😉 wouldn't fit, certainly not if had a deraileur

You _might_ be able to use a U-lock round the seat tube to hold the bike
up high enough that the deraileur isn't trying to wedge itself into the
rear wheel slot. At which point the "just wheel it in" ease of use story
vanishes, since you have to hold the whole weight of the bike up with one
hand while doing up a U-lock with your other hand.

On 24 Jul 2006 01:03:45 -0700, "David Martin"
<[email hidden]> said in
<[email hidden]>:

Quoted message said:

The label on the stands in our new sheds says Broxap, but that is no
guarantee that the main sheds were made by them as well.

They do look good (and thanks to all for the suggestions, some of
which I had found on Gargoyle but there are simply too many to wade
through). The cyclepod jobs are style-over-substance: we need secure
and weatherproof (several of us have bikes in the thousand plus pound
bracket, including at least one titanium On-One which is a bit nice.

Guy
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