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Haha, I love the confusion in the video. Uhhh, so how do I actually lock this up?

Wow. Those really suck. Not very artsy either, at least to my eyes (though I am an engineer, art is not my thing). Makes you really appreciate our racks that are in fact artsy *and* useful. Two of our racks could fit there and not suck it up.

Just one more reason I despise Erie and will never go back as long as I can avoid it.

Ha ha. Despise Erie? I grew up and have family there. I like going back to visit.

I spent 3 years there for school. Everyone there force fed to me the idea that Erie was superior. Most people there who said this have never lived anywhere else yet they kept insisting that me liking my hometown was wrong. I did not tell them their town was shit, I said said I did not like it compared to where I grew up. Big difference between liking your hometown and being proud of it vs telling people their same love for their town is in fact wrong.

The best argument ever was that they had a pro football (Erie Freeze), pro baseball (Seawolves), and pro hockey (Otters) all on one neat little area. Right...

Sort of like how everyone is so proud of Pittsburgh and gets defensive when someone criticizes the city.

Never met anyone like that there but everyone I was friends with in high school have moved away, most of them here to Pittsburgh.

Oh, they're leaves, I see. Jumping fish would have been cool.

+lots 3RRacks, good design.

Most people I know, unless it is about the Steelers, are pretty reasonable with criticisms.

The story made "People for Bikes" and they are pretty stoked about them. They must not use bike racks either.

maybe I'm dense, or don't lock to racks enough, but I don't understand why they're all that bad. Each leaf can hold at least two bikes, if they install all three leaves in a location, that's 6 bikes (I think probably more like three bikes per rack). The 3 rivers racks hold two bikes each, maybe 3?

I like the 3 rivers racks. But I don't see why these are so bad as you guys are saying. They're not the useless metal railing ones that purport to hold 10 bikes (but instead hold 2). And I think they are pretty.

Am I missing something?

+1 ejwme

I just clicked through some of the artsy racks in that linked slideshow from the People For Bikes page, and some of those are seriously cool looking (the paperclips in particular make me grin).

But I'd be hesitant to lock up to some of the more sculpture-looking ones, it would spoil the line of the sculpture and I'd feel slightly rude for temporarily blighting a public pretty. Not that my bike is ugly, but... If it doesn't obviously look like a rack (pretty or not), I'd likely not lock to it.

Yeah, they seem OK to me too. AFAICT you could securely lock a lot of bikes to those.

No parking space is interesting (rare exceptions for Parking Day). Any bike rack that's even slightly out of the ordinary is interesting. Anything that gets people talking about bikes is a Good Thing™.

The racks look reasonable to me too.

If the bikes are going parallel to the cement, I don't see how any more bike racks could fit into that space due to the length of the bicycles.

I also like there being a wide range of placement for the center pole, whereas our, IMO somewhat annoying 3RR, is limited by the design.

The whole thing strikes me as art people who don't ride bikes doing something that they think is cool and will get them attention, not what they think is good for cycling in Erie. Also, the one place they show these is in a park, where are they going to put those things in a business district with a narrow sidewalk?

I hated living in Erie. Horribly boring and there is mostly snow, wind, and more snow for 10 months out of the year. I haven't been there since I completed masters degree in 2005. I think it is time for another visit though.

Maybe I missed someone else saying this, but that one guy in the video looks like gandolf?

That's great. I shouldn't have started watching that video again while taking a phone call

Gandalf the Art Director

I watched it without sound (office), and I just figured he rode recumbent?