{"id":3367,"date":"2013-08-23T09:34:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T13:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2013-08-23T09:35:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T13:35:38","slug":"ode-to-the-bike-rack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/ode-to-the-bike-rack\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to the Bike Rack"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The best part of my day is my bike commute to and from work.\u00a0 It energizes me for the workday ahead and gives me time to reflect on the day that\u2019s gone by.\u00a0 Often it\u2019s a time when creative solutions to the day\u2019s challenges pop into my head like a happy email suddenly appearing in my inbox.\u00a0 How can we ensure that more McGillians have the chance to partake of this bliss on two wheels that is as good for the body as it is for the soul?\u00a0 On an already crowded campus, there\u2019s not much room for bikes and it certainly could be a challenge really soon once new and returning students descend on the campus en masse for the start of classes.\u00a0 One way would be to ensure that there is ample bike parking and this is just what a group of McGill Mechanical Engineering students set out to do a couple of years ago when they designed a space-saving bike rack as part of a class project.<\/p>\n

The result is impressive.\u00a0 Their bike rack is called the VeloCurve and is situated next to the Redpath Museum.\u00a0 It looks like a work of modern art, resembling part spider, part flower.\u00a0 The aesthetic component was important as a potential factor in encouraging people to cycle, say the founders in a video clip found here<\/a>.\u00a0 The bike rack first appeared on campus last summer and since then the students, who have now graduated, have been busy commercializing their product through their company VeloCyko<\/a>.\u00a0 The bike rack is space saving because it stores bikes vertically, saving 40% more space compared to a traditional bike rack, an important feature on this campus and in many other places in our densely crowded cities.\u00a0 It discourages theft too because when locking a bike, the cyclist stands upright and is visible rather than crouched down and out of sight as a thief would want to be.<\/p>\n

If you want more details, check out their website at www.velocyko.com<\/a> where more innovative designs are on the way.<\/p>\n

And once school starts, if you can\u2019t get yourself a spot using the VeloCurve, here<\/a> is a map of other bike parking on campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The best part of my day is my bike commute to and from work.\u00a0 It energizes me for the workday ahead and gives me time to reflect on the day that\u2019s gone by.\u00a0 Often it\u2019s a time when creative solutions … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[199,70],"class_list":["post-3367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-bike-racks","tag-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}