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Thanks, Chainlink!

Had a great time at Pitchfork yesterday, and met some great people at the bike parking pen.  Having someone there to register people's bikes on they spot was something I've been dreaming of! (Look for a formal announcement on that soon from Seth H/ bikeindex.org.)

Thanks to Julie for setting up the opportunity!

FYI the singer of Belle and Sebastian made some comments about Divvy.... he said he'd been trying the bikes in various cities (they're Scottish) and found New York stressful, and Chicago much more laid back and pleasant to ride around in, but lamented the fact that the bikes have to be checked in after 30 minutes.

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on July 21, 2013 at 3:55pm

Oh, and special thanks to David the Lurker for the kind words :-)

Permalink Reply by David Altenburg on July 21, 2013 at 8:49pm

Thanks, h'! And to everyone who helped out at the bike parking. It was probably the most pleasant festival bike-parking experience I've had. Honestly, as fun as the fest was, the ride home in the light rain with the cool breeze starting was one of the highlights of the day. Back to lurking I go...

Permalink Reply by Sarah D. on July 21, 2013 at 9:09pm

Same from me - thank you, friend in bike parking tonight who filled my back tire and thank you for the water each time I entered/exited - so nice to go from that mass of people inside the gates out to the nice bikey people and my steed, safe and sound in the bike area. And the cool breeze on the way home was a great ending to the weekend! 

Permalink Reply by JeffB on July 22, 2013 at 11:31am

Yes.  Thank you.  Problem free.  I appreciated the water and that the long chains of racks were broken up a little on Sunday to allow for a few more end-of-rack spots.

Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on July 22, 2013 at 11:38am

Oh yeah-- forgot to mention-- early Saturday Seth (bikeindex) suggested breaking up the racks to create more end spaces, which was funny since I'd just suggested the same thing on Sarah's festival parking thread a day or two before. So we broke the ones that were still unparked into twos and threes. The end spaces didn't last long, and the space in general did fill beyond capacity by about 5 or so. Interestingly though, plenty of folks threw their bikes over the top bar even when end spaces were available.

Permalink Reply by Madopal (16.5 mi) on July 22, 2013 at 12:39pm

I got to Pitchfork about 3pm on Saturday, and by then, the bike parking fun had started.  We took CTA, so I didn't get over to the bike parking, but this amused me as I got off the L.

Clearly, some folks were unaware of the bike parking to the south.

Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on July 22, 2013 at 1:07pm

I think there were plenty who were aware of it but just chose to lock closer to the entrance.

So far no theft reports from Pitchfork (get at least one or two every year.)



Madopal (7.6 mi) said:

I got to Pitchfork about 3pm on Saturday, and by then, the bike parking fun had started.  We took CTA, so I didn't get over to the bike parking, but this amused me as I got off the L.

Clearly, some folks were unaware of the bike parking to the south.

Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on July 24, 2013 at 10:06pm

Well, I thought this might be the first year the CSBR received no reports from Pitchfork, but alas:

http://chicago.stolenbike.org/node/194324

Permalink Reply by Sarah D. on July 25, 2013 at 12:03am

Boo. 

h' 1.0 said:

Well, I thought this might be the first year the CSBR received no reports from Pitchfork, but alas:

http://chicago.stolenbike.org/node/194324

Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on July 25, 2013 at 11:15am

Someone left a helmet, bike lock key and pump.  If they are yours, let me know. 

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