Re:Clever bike lock scales light posts
by Timothee on Monday November 29, 2010 @10:07AM
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The thing is with that lock you have a stack, so the first bike on that pole can't get down until the others are gone. With regular locks problems happen only by mistake or by being an ass.
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Putting your bike under someone else's is not being an ass?
1 bike -> 1 post. There isn't enough posts for all the bikes.
The stacking problem could be trivially solved by adding a small explosive charge that ejects your bike sideways when needed.
I guess it is, but it would be by using the lock as designed, rather than by being careless.
Either you have one bike per post, which is not efficient or enough, or you stack them.
So basically, though it's an interesting idea, this design is very impractical.