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World's Most Insecure Bike Rack

This must be just about the world's most insecure bike rack. Just lob it in the back of the pickup truck along with the bike(s). Then the bad guys can deal with those pesky locks in the privacy of their own junkyard.

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on December 9, 2011 at 5:22pm

There is one at the Menard's on the old Western Electric site (23rd/Cicero) that is the same style but smaller, and is in a different place every time I visit; locking a bike to the rack makes the rack more secure, rather than vice-versa.

But my vote for the worst is the triple-inverted U at the CVS at 31st/Halsted.  It's somewhat thin diameter pipe (1 1/2") and there is a section at one end rusted away, so the whole thing hangs basically free on one footing.

I will look for pics of both.

Permalink Reply by Jared on December 9, 2011 at 5:40pm

One of the worst one's I've seen is in Arlington Heights in front of the library.  The rack only provides a slot to lock the front wheel and nothing else.

Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on December 9, 2011 at 6:40pm

None of you are helping that racks self image by talking about it like this...

Permalink Reply by Fran Kondorf on December 9, 2011 at 6:43pm

 My bike & locks probably weigh more than that thing. Free-standing = free stealing!

(And always remember to check the nuts on the mounting bolts before locking up to any rack or post.)

-f

 

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on December 9, 2011 at 8:23pm

That's not a bike rack -t's a bike dispenser. 

Permalink Reply by Mike Zumwalt on December 10, 2011 at 12:36pm

+1

notoriousDUG said:

None of you are helping that racks self image by talking about it like this...

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on December 10, 2011 at 12:45pm

LOL @ making fun of the poor bike rack.  Bike racks are people too!  (or...maybe not...)

Granny Weatherwax said that evil starts when people get treated like things -and things get treated instead like people.  But the only folks who will get that reference are Terry Pratchett/Discworld fans.

Permalink Reply by Debra J on December 10, 2011 at 2:13pm
The Jewel just south of Addison on Broadway. Awful, very insecure.
Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on December 10, 2011 at 3:31pm

Totally.

notoriousDUG said:

None of you are helping that racks self image by talking about it like this...

Permalink Reply by Kevin Mulcky on December 10, 2011 at 3:37pm

I'd say Performance Bikes on Halsted has the worst racks in the city.

Permalink Reply by S.Presley☠ on December 11, 2011 at 8:27pm

LOL...I was just going to say this. I have fenders and the angle is too great to properly park my bike. goofy racks indeed. :)

Kelvin Mulcky said:

I'd say Performance Bikes on Halsted has the worst racks in the city.

Permalink Reply by Martin Hazard on December 11, 2011 at 9:31pm

Performance on Halsted has the worst rack I have ever seen. I know the one at CVS on 31st and Halsted, I always lock to the iron fence when there. The Burger King on North just west of California is the same way. The one at P-mart however is designed to be assembled/disassembled with out tools. Yes, like Tinker Toys, or even worse, as it is held together with wing nuts. It was installed by P-mart (corporate) as a temporary solution several years ago. Unlike the other locations sited, this is a bike store, so there is no excuse for this. And yes fenders are a no go except on the ends of the racks. Perhaps if pieces of their rack started disappearing they might improve it. Just saying.

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