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In praise of the humble Sheffield stand
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Re: In praise of the humble Sheffield stand
#22Page unreadable on an iPhone (tried both Safari and Firefox). All the images are blank… Any advice?
The images don't load for me on desktop Firefox, but I can see them when I view the thread on Twitter. They seem to be blocked on Thread Reader because they're classified by Firefox as "Social Tracking."
Re: In praise of the humble Sheffield stand
#23I don't understand why many of the stands he calls useless are useless. Sure most of them are less economical but as long as there's a loop of metal anchored to the ground how is it useless?
They don't work for many bicycle geometries[1]. Small vs large frames, small vs large wheels, wide vs narrow tyres, tricycles, tandem bikes, cargo bikes, recumbent bikes, hand-cranked bikes etc. Also if they are too finicky about the exact way you lock the bike (particular orientation, particular lock-point) it can be hard to make it work when there are obstacles (such as other bikes). The Sheffield stand makes the f…
You're supposed to fix the frame to the stand, why are you just attaching the wheel?
Wheel "grabbers" (usually just called 'fietsenrek') are pretty common in the Netherlands, especially the 2 level ones, because they allow the greatest number of bikes in a small area. This does have some downsides obviously, but in the Netherlands 'largest number of bikes' tends to outweigh other concerns.
Re: In praise of the humble Sheffield stand
#24So, which is the Sheffield Stand? The first one?
Yes. It looks like a big staple.
Re: In praise of the humble Sheffield stand
#25> known as the "Sheffield rack" or "Sheffield stand" after the city of Sheffield in England where these were pioneered [wikipedia]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_parking_rack
Just in case anyone was interested in the etymolology.
Also they used to make bike racks out of wood? Sick (?!)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_parking_rack#/media/...
PS I loved this post and I agree completely. Bike rack opinionation achieved.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
They don't work for many bicycle geometries[1]. Small vs large frames, small vs large wheels, wide vs narrow tyres, tricycles, tandem bikes, cargo bikes, recumbent bikes, hand-cranked bikes etc. Also if they are too finicky about the exact way you lock the bike (particular orientation, particular lock-point) it can be hard to make it work when there are obstacles (such as other bikes). The Sheffield stand makes the f…
You're supposed to fix the frame to the stand, why are you just attaching the wheel? Wheel "grabbers" (usually just called 'fietsenrek') are pretty common in the Netherlands, especially the 2 level ones, because they allow the greatest number of bikes in a small area. This does have some downsides obviously, but in the Netherlands 'largest number of bikes' tends to outweigh other concerns.
> You're supposed to fix the frame to the stand, why are you just attaching the wheel?
Are we talking about the same kind? I mean these pieces of junk: https://twitter.com/PPushbike/status/1511404994007900160
Re: In praise of the humble Sheffield stand
#27Note: The twitter OP has put the #/n indicator in-between the caption and the photo. Which makes sense on Twitter, but when threadreader strips out the formatting it makes it look like the captions line up with the wrong image.
Captions precede the corresponding images in this thread.
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#28I 100% agree. I have never found a bike stand design as good as the simple staple.
One particularly annoying thing is stands designed to hold a larger number of bikes, often by lifting bikes and hanging them or something equally annoying.
They all end up putting the bikes way too close so in practice people only use every other space and you fit even fewer bikes in.
The staple design is just by far the best.