Green Options » bike tree http://greenoptions.com/tag/bike-tree Posts tagged 'bike tree' Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:55:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en How to Make Bike Commuting More Popular http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/03/27/how-to-solve-the-urban-bike-theft-issue/ http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/03/27/how-to-solve-the-urban-bike-theft-issue/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:55:02 +0000 Paul Smith http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/03/27/how-to-solve-the-urban-bike-theft-issue/ bike treeYou’ve heard all the arguments about why you should ride your bike: It reduces auto traffic, shrinks your carbon footprint, decreases your transportation costs, and gives you killer calves. But there’s one niggling problem: theft. It seems no matter how many locks, cables, and snakes you use, at one point or another, you’re likely to return to your bike, to find one lone orphaned tire, the rest long gone.

Whether or not this has been your experience, it’s a perception that many people hold, and it’s a factor in holding back bike riding from being more widely used mode of transport. What to do? Enter the Bike Tree. These devices address several issues at once, but let me start with the primary: it stores your bikes high up in the air, for all the world to see, and thieves to be foiled, looking like, yes, a tree made of bikes.

How does it work? Simply.

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