Where to buy a good bike shelter for my son's primary school?

zebra

Subject line almost says it all... Head says she is going to apply for
funding to get a bicycle rack (will be an improvement on the chain link
fence we currently lock my son's bike, to). I want to persuade her to
try to get something with a roof on it (open-sided, probably).

Who makes bike shelters? These people don't do pictures:

http://www.safetyshop.com/asp/showc...0&searchstring=

This has the type of racks I hate, too small, anyway:

http://www.bikecare.co.uk/shelters.html

& this one, too expensive!

http://www.action-storage.co.uk/lockers/cyclerack.asp

Is there something inbetween... Head says she is going to apply to DoT
for funding, at least, but still I think 2k will be well beyond the
budget.

TIA -julii

m-gineering

zebra wrote:
>
> Subject line almost says it all... Head says she is going to apply for
> funding to get a bicycle rack (will be an improvement on the chain link
> fence we currently lock my son's bike, to). I want to persuade her to
> try to get something with a roof on it (open-sided, probably).
>
> Who makes bike shelters? These people don't do pictures:
>
> http://www.safetyshop.com/asp/showc...0&searchstring=
>
> This has the type of racks I hate, too small, anyway:
>
> http://www.bikecare.co.uk/shelters.html
>
> & this one, too expensive!
>
> http://www.action-storage.co.uk/lockers/cyclerack.asp
>
> Is there something inbetween... Head says she is going to apply to DoT
> for funding, at least, but still I think 2k will be well beyond the
> budget.
>
> TIA -julii

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David Martin

zebra wrote:
> Subject line almost says it all... Head says she is going to apply for
> funding to get a bicycle rack (will be an improvement on the chain link
> fence we currently lock my son's bike, to). I want to persuade her to
> try to get something with a roof on it (open-sided, probably).
>

Contact the CTC and speak to Dave Holladay who is an engineer
specialising in bike infrastructure.

dave.holladay@ctc.org.uk

...d

David Martin

zebra wrote:
> Subject line almost says it all... Head says she is going to apply for
> funding to get a bicycle rack (will be an improvement on the chain link
> fence we currently lock my son's bike, to). I want to persuade her to
> try to get something with a roof on it (open-sided, probably).
>

Contact the CTC and speak to Dave Holladay who is an engineer
specialising in bike infrastructure.

dave.holladay@ctc.org.uk

...d

Andy Dingley

On 7 Jan 2005 13:16:10 -0800, "zebra" <moxypie@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Subject line almost says it all.

Are you anywhere vaguely rustic ? Go to a farm shop and ask who
builds shelters for sheep. You'll get a bloke with a tape measure who
turns up a few weeks later with a load of glaved steel pipe and
corrugated steel.

Another way is to get an upper school CDT class to design it.
Depending on the school they might also make it, or they might
outsource it to a local fabricator (for outsourcing is what passes for
vocational traiing anyway, rant, rant). If you involve the local free
newspaper with offers of cute pictures of smiling kids and their
construction, that's also a good bargaining counter with the
fabricator - who has the photos taken in front of their office and
prominent logo. Caption it with some tosh about "local community".

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Jon Senior

Andy Dingley wrote:
> Another way is to get an upper school CDT class to design it.
> Depending on the school they might also make it, or they might
> outsource it to a local fabricator (for outsourcing is what passes for
> vocational traiing anyway, rant, rant). If you involve the local free
> newspaper with offers of cute pictures of smiling kids and their
> construction, that's also a good bargaining counter with the
> fabricator - who has the photos taken in front of their office and
> prominent logo. Caption it with some tosh about "local community".

Your cynicism is fantastic. Ever considered a career in politics? ;-)

Jon

MSeries

Jon Senior wrote:

>
>
> Your cynicism is fantastic.

You took the word out of my mouth sir.

Badger

zebra wrote:

> Subject line almost says it all... Head says she is going to apply for
> funding to get a bicycle rack (will be an improvement on the chain link
> fence we currently lock my son's bike, to). I want to persuade her to
> try to get something with a roof on it (open-sided, probably).

http://www.keyind.co.uk/

The paper cat is better than the online...

Jon Senior

Badger wrote:
> The paper cat is better than the online...

I clearly need more sleep. I just spent a minute trying to work out the
meaning of that profound sounding sentence before I worked out
cat(alogue). ;-)

Jon

Nick Kew

In article <1105265194.72808.0@doris.uk.clara.net>,
Jon Senior <jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOT_co_DOT_uk> writes:
> Badger wrote:
>> The paper cat is better than the online...
>
> I clearly need more sleep. I just spent a minute trying to work out the
> meaning of that profound sounding sentence before I worked out
> cat(alogue). ;-)

That's your *human* reaction. But isn't it a rash assumption when you're
following up to *Badger*?

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Nick Kew