| Nueva incorporación al equipo técnico |
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 Undercover is pleased to announce that Paco Pelegri will be joining our team as a electronic and computer engineer. Paco Pelegri comes to our department with many years of experience in the following companies:
Z-MOBILE CORPORATION / Electronic and electrical manager of a company which develops electric cars, doing the management, design and production planning of the electric part of the car.
PROYTECSA / R&D engineer of a company which produces technological security solutions, as mobile robots for militar aplications, perimeter security fences and automatic access control systems, working in the improvement of these products.
LEAR CORPORATION / R&D engineer student in the power electronics division of an automotive company, designing an electronic low cost device for the "Start&Stop" system, winning the technological innovation award.
AUTRONIK AUTOMATION / Electronic technician in the automation division of a company which produces automatic solutions for a wide range of companies.
TECNOLAMA / Quality technician in a company which produces automatic doors for lifts being responsible of the good manufacturing of the products in factory, and getting actively involved in the continuous improvement.
BAYER MaterialScience / Student engineer in one of the leading chemical companies in the world, planning the wiring with InTools and verifying the correct operation and preparing the connection with the instrumentation."
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| bikecare - bigloo in the German-area |
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 Firmado acuerdo de distribución de los productos bigloo y biceberg para los paises de Suiza, Alemania y Austria con la empresa bikecare.
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| Bike Parking Madrid Electric Test |
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 El Aparcamiento Bicicletas Madrid con las energías alternativas. Esta semana se han realizado las primeras pruebas del aparcamiento automático para bicicletas bigloo con la acumulación de energía eléctrica producida con el aerogenerador genios 1000. Cuando finalicen las pruebas con energía cólica se procederá a la combinación con energía solar. Os mantendremos al corriente de los avances en esta línea.
Más información:
www.biceberg.es
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| Aparcamiento Bicicletas Barcelona |
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 El Aparcamiento Bicicletas Barcelona situado en el Paseo García Fária - biceberg Forum Barcelona - ha sido testado esta semana para la recarga bicicleta eléctrica obteniendo un resultado favorable que lo enmarca en el mejor sistema para el aparcamiento de la bicicleta electrica, ya que añadido a su protección total,en la bicicleta electrica se realizará la recarga automáticamente.
Más información:
www.bigloo.es
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| New Bicycle Parking System - Autocad files |
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 Ya puedes solicitarnos los archivos de nuestro aparcamiento para bicicletas para autocad, archivos dwg y dxf, e integrarlos en tu proyecto. En breve los podrás descargar directamente.
Más información:
http://www.biceberg.es
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| bike parking bigloo |
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 Bike Parking Automated.
La prestigiosa revista de arquitectura y diseño "Diseño de la ciudad", nos ha dedicado un extenso articulo en su número 71, al que puedes acceder en el enlace que os indicamos. Os recomendamos que accedáis al resto de la publicación, francamente interesante.
Más información:
http://www.disenodelaciudad.es/DC74sk/bigloo.html
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| Biceberg Bicycle Parking Underground
New technology for parking bicycles |
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 I´m liking this one. A Spanish company has developed an effective underground bike parking system they called The Biceberg. They come in different sizes and depths, depending on needs and space requirements. There are different sizes available - 23, 46, 69 or 92 bicycles. Depending on the size the watertight container that stores the bikes needs a hole between 1.5 m and 5.25 m in depth.
copenhagenize.com / for the love of bicycle culture / 100 percent independent advocacy
Más información:
http://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/02/biceberg-bicycle-parking-underground_04.html
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| Automated Parking Systems b-igloo and biceberg in Scandinavia |
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 Since January 2010 automated parking systems for bicycles biceberg and b-igloo have a place in Scandinavian market through P-Plan A/S Company, wich its specilized in giving solutions for parking. P-Plan provides all kind of parking solutions to Scandinavian cuntries. Offers services of consultant, developement, design, supply and construction for parking projects.
Más información:
http://www.p-plan.dk
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| Bigloo en la movilidad interna de los astilleros |
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 El sistema de aparcamiento y alquiler de bicicletas bigloo no deja de encontrar aplicaciones en el ámbito de la movilidad, y en esta ocasión para dar servicio de bicicleta de préstamo para los desplazamientos de los operarios en el interior de los recintos de los astilleros. La aplicación del sistema facilita los recorridos en tiempos reducidos, sustituye el trafico motorizado, reduce costes y despeja las áreas para el tráfico y trabajo.
Más información:
http://www.biceberg.com
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| bIcYCLe pARkInG bIKe ParkING bIcYCLe pARkInG bIKe ParkING |
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| Electric Bikes, Electric Bicycles |
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 Electric Bikes, Electric Bicycles
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| Sorprendente!!. Barcelona 1908 |
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 Sorprendente documental de la Barcelona de 1908 realizado por el director Ricardo de Baños. En este documental podrás observar cómo la bicicleta era el medio de transporte individual más utilizado en la ciudad. No dejeis de verlo, lo tenéis en la página web que os indicamosen el pié. En la misma encontraréis otros documentales históricos que no dejarán de sorprenderos también.
Más información:
http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/FT/245/about-the-film-barcelona_by_tram
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| bigloo en BIKESHOW 2009 |
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 Los próximos días 13 y 14 de junio con motivo de la celebración del Bike Show BCN 2009, presentaremos el bigloo al púbico de Barcelona. El Bike Show BCN es la mayor fiesta de la bicicleta de Europa, concentra un numeroso público de perfil más familiar y general, usuarios esporádicos de la bicicleta que disfrutan de una manera mucho más lúdica y que agradecen también la vertiente festiva y formativa de las actividades que encuentran. Las marcas ofrecen el material de muestra y test, se combina con público activo y participativo, y todo ello aderezado con espectáculos, exhibiciones y competiciones de máximo nivel. Os esperamos allí. No olvidéis visitar la web http://www.bikeshowbcn.com y
http://www.ocisport.net/
Más información:
http://www.bikeshowbcn.com/detail_news.php?item=235
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| Sevilla firme candidata a organizar el más importante Congreso Mundial sobre la Bicicleta: Velocity 2011 |
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 El alcalde de Sevilla, Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín, y el concejal de Infraestructuras para la Sostenibilidad, Antonio Rodrigo Torrijos, explicaron ayer que Sevilla podría convertirse en VeloCity en 2011-distinción otorgada a una ciudad por su sostenibilidad- tras fromalizarse la candidatura presentada en abril por el Ayuntamiento a la Federación Europea de Ciclistas.
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 Bigloo está en las calles de Sevilla. Coincidiendo con las II Jornadas de Bicicleta Pública se ha instalado el primer Bigloo en la Avenida Diego Martínez Barrio y no ha dejado indiferente a nadie. Este Bigloo, la primera máquina de aparcamiento que combinará bicicleta pública y privada, estará a disposición de los participantes en las reuniones de este Foro, el más importante del sector en España.
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| What Would Get Americans Biking to Work? 24/08/09 |
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 Artículo de Tom Vanderbilt originalmente publicado en el medio digital estadounidense Slate. y traducido y comentado por Carola Paredes en el medio digital español soitu. El articulo analiza y comenta las infraestructuras necesarias para el desarrollo de la bicicleta como medio de transporte urbano y a los centros de trabajo, manifestándose el aparcamiento de bicicletas como “ el último gran reto en la cultura de la bicicleta “ . Os recomendamos clickar en los diferentes vínculos que se desarrollan a lo largo del texto.
El artículo original lo puedes encontrar en http://www.slate.com/id/2225511/pagenum/all/#p2
Más información:
http://www.soitu.es/soitu/2009/08/23/hartosdelcoche/1251026420_156084.html
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| Biceberg & Bigloo, en Espagne on ré-invente le parking à vélo |
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 Plus il y aura de vélo en ville et plus se posera indéniablement le problème pour « garer» son vélo. Au risque de voir des agglutinements de masses métalliques sur leurs chères barrières ou autre lampadaires, les municipalités ont tout intérêt à réfléchir et mettre en place des solutions efficaces.
Dans ce domaine, les concepts sont nombreux comme par exemple le Cyclehoop que nous vous avions présenté. Vous avez aussi probablement déjà vu la vidéo de cet incroyable parking à vélo automatisé japonais. Et bien c’est dans le même ordre d’idée (mais dans une taille revue à la baisse) que les espagnols de chez Biceberg ont conçu cet ingénieux système de parking à vélo.
L’idée original de ce parking à vélo enterré remonte à 1994, époque où la société Ma-sistemas concevait également des systèmes de surveillance sécurisé pour bicyclette. Le Biceberg est déclinable en différentes versions pouvant accueillir respectivement 23, 46, 69 et 92 vélos. Votre monture se retrouve ainsi entièrement sécurisée, dans un caisson, à l’abri des voleurs et des dégradations, et dans lequel vous pouvez même déposer vos effets personnels comme casque ou sac à dos.
7,50 de diamètre et jusqu’à 5,25m de profondeur pour le modèle 92 vélos, le système fonctionne à l’aide d’une carte personnelle que vous créditez selon votre désir d’utilisation. Moins de 30 secondes suffisent pour déposer ou récupérer son vélo. Des parkings Biceberg sont actuellement en fonctionnement dans plusieurs villes du nord de l’Espagne comme Saragosse ou encore Huesca.
Más información:
http://www.weelz.fr/fr/velo-urbain/2009/09/16/biceberg-bigloo-en-espagne-on-re-invente-le-parking-a-velo/
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| Lancement du projet KYOTOBOX . NET à Velo-city 2009 |
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Más información:
http://www.kyotobox.net
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| bigloo en VELO-CITY 2009 |
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 bigloo está presente en la quinceava edición del Velocity que se celebra en Bruselas los días 12 a 15 de mayo, representado por la empresa NOUVELLES ACQUISITIONS S.A.. En el stand os atenderán y darán todo tipo de información Mr. Michael Marchand and Mr. Gabriel Bechoux. Nuestra propuesta sobre los beneficios que aporta la guarda y custodia segura de la bicicleta, es uno de los ejes fundamentales que se van a tratar en el desarrollo de la conferencia.
Más información:
http://www.velo-city2009.com/
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| Publicación de negocios rusa CEO / russian business monthly “CEO” |
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 La publicación mensual de negocios CEO en su número 5 de mayo de 2009, dedica un extenso artículo sobre los aparcamientos automáticos para bicicletas y en particular sobre el biceberg, donde destaca el desarrollo de este sistema como filón para oportunidades de negocio centrada en las nuevas tendencias de la sociedad industrializada, y como recurso innovador en el desarrollo de las nuevas tendencias de ahorro y eficiencia energética.
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| Artículo de biceberg bigloo en la revista DETAIL |
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 La revista internacional de Arquitectura DETAIL, dedica en su segundo número de 2009 un extenso artículo sobre mobiliario urbano donde se analizan y detallan las virtudes y aplicaciones de los aparcamientos automáticos para bicicletas biceberg y bigloo, destacando los aportes de estos sistemas a la sostenibilidad y al redescubrimiento de la bicicleta como medio de transporte individual en la ciudad
Más información:
http://www.detail.de/
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| Manual de aparcamientos de bicicletas 2009, elaborado por el BACC para el IDAE |
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 El manual fue presentado en las últimas Jornadas de la Bicicleta Pública de Sevilla que tuvieron lugar el 12 y 13 de marzo. Éste manual pretende ser una herramienta útil para las entidades públicas y privadas que deseen promover el uso de la bicicleta como medio de transporte. En el se describen los pasos a seguir en la planificación de aparcamientos de bicicletas, se exponen los tipos de aparcamientos existentes, y los criterios de implantación para cada caso. Las numerosas imágenes y las buenas prácticas del documento permiten ejemplificar como debe ser una buena planificación de los aparcamientos. DESCARGALO EN NUESTRA BIBLIOTECA
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| Spring Is In The Air! Top 10 Businesses For Spring 2009 |
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 Spring is in the air, and as cooler climates begin warming up for the spring and summer, interesting business concepts that cater to spring activities and interests take on a whole new appeal. Over the upcoming months, the popularity of businesses with an outdoor theme will increase, while consumers take in the nice weather and get outside! In honor of spring´s arrival, I´m counting down the Top 10 spring businesses of 2009!
Another concept for urban bicycle commuters, Biceberg is an automated storage unit for Spanish cyclists to store their bikes when they get to their destination. The Biceberg machine is connected to an underground storage unit and transfers your bike from ground level using a bicycle vending machine technology. Cyclists can store and retrieve their bikes using a unique microchip and PIN number to identify both themselves and the horse they road in on.
Más información:
http://inventorspot.com/articles/spring_air_top_10_businesses_spring_2009_26546
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| El Biceberg en el Circulo de Bellas Artes |
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 Bajo el título Hipótesis Urbana. Investigación sobre diseño contemporáneo arranca la primera de las exposiciones que en 2009 organiza la Sociedad Estatal para el Desarrollo del Diseño y la Innovación (ddi) y el Círculo de Bellas Artes con el fin de generar una reflexión teórica que permita apreciar en su justa medida las aportaciones a la historia del diseño de cada uno de sus artífices. En el apartado urbano ha sido elegido el aparcamiento automático para bicicletas “ biceberg ” como elemento que forma parte del progreso de la actividad humana en la ciudades, de forma paralela y a un ritmo similar. No te pierdas la visita virtual.
Más información:
http://www.circulobellasartes.com/ag_expo_contenidos.php?ele=1622
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| What Would Get Americans Biking to Work?
Decent parking.
By Tom Vanderbilt
Posted Monday, Aug. 17, 2009, at 5:34 PM ET
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 When we talk about transportation, we tend to talk about things in motion. What is often left unremarked upon, in conversations about crowded highways, is something without which those crowds would not exist: parking. That humble 9-by-18-foot space (the standard size of a spot) is where traffic begins and ends. It is the fuel to traffic´s fire.
Why is it overlooked? One possibility is that parking is more typically treated as real estate, the subject of arcane building codes and zoning regulations, rather than as a part of transportation networks; given that cars spend 95 percent of their time parked, this makes some sense. Another reason may simply be that, in most of America, parking is taken as a given. Donald Shoup, author of The High Cost of Free Parking, has estimated that 99 percent of car trips in the United States terminate in a free parking space, which means the nation´s drivers don´t have much incentive to think about parking—or not driving. In many American places, there are more parking spaces than people.
If car parking is often overshadowed in traffic talk, bicycle parking is even more obscure. For many people in the United States it might be hard to imagine what there is to talk about. Why don´t you just stick it in the garage? Or: Isn´t that what street signs and trees are for? But as the share of trips made by bicycle has grown in recent years—in Portland, Ore., for example, bicycle use has grown nearly 150 percent since 1990, and an estimated 5 percent of people bike to work—new attention is being paid to what happens to those bicycles when they are not in motion.
The most high-profile instance of this is the so-called "Bicycle Access Bill," recently signed into law after a New York City Council vote of 46-1. The measure will require the owners of commercial buildings with a freight elevator to allow people to enter the building with a bicycle—though what happens from there depends on the building. (See this useful summary of the bill.)
While the right to enter a building with a bicycle may seem minor, the bill potentially represents a huge de facto increase in the city´s supply of bicycle parking, which is currently estimated at 6,100 racks, many of these outdoors. What´s more, New York´s City Council also passed a bill mandating that commercial parking garages provide spaces for bicycles—one bike space for every 10 cars, up to 200 cars.
Why do these measures matter? Because parking helps make commuters—a lesson long ago learned with cars. Studies in New York found that a surprisingly large percentage of vehicles coming into lower Manhattan were government employees or others who had an assured parking spot. Other studies have shown the presence of a guaranteed parking spot at home—required in new residential developments—is what turns a New Yorker into a car commuter.
On the flip side, people would be much less likely to drive into Manhattan if they knew their expensive car was likely to be stolen, vandalized, or taken away by police. And yet this is what was being asked of bicycle commuters, save those lucky few who work in a handful of buildings that provide indoor bicycle parking. Surveys have shown that the leading deterrent to potential bicycle commuters is lack of a safe, secure parking spot on the other end. (In England, for example, it´s been estimated that a bicycle is stolen every 71 seconds.)
A number of American cities are now waking up to the fact that providing bicycle parking makes sense. Philadelphia, for example, recently amended its zoning requirements to mandate that certain new developments provide bicycle parking; Pittsburgh´s planning department is weighing requiring one bicycle parking space for every 20,000 square feet of development* (admittedly modest compared with the not-uncommon car equation of one parking space per 250 square feet); even the car-centric enclave of Orange County, Calif., is getting in on the act, with Santa Ana´s City Council unanimously passing a bill requiring proportional bicycle parking when car parking is provided. In Chicago, Los Angeles, and other cities, pilot projects are investigating turning car-parking meters—once semireliable bike-parking spots, now rendered obsolete by "smart meter" payment systems—into bike parking infrastructure.
Few cities are doing more than Portland—which has been experiencing a particular boom in bicycle commuting—to increase bicycle parking. In September, for example, the City Council will vote on code changes that would require residential buildings to have the same bicycle parking requirements as commercial buildings. Granted, Portland, Ore., is an unusual place for the United States: a place where business owners actually petition the city to build "bike corrals," or collections of racks that tend to swap one or two car parking spaces for a dozen bike spaces, in front of their establishments, and where residents casually drop lingo like staple, meaning the type of bicycle parking structure that looks like a staple stuck into the concrete. And in a move that is sure to give John McCain fits, the city is spending $1 million of federal stimulus funds on bicycle parking at transit hubs.
Of course, even Portland´s efforts would look rather quaint in a country like the Netherlands, where an estimated 27 percent of daily trips are made on bicycle. Outside of, or underneath, Dutch railway stations in the major cities sit vast bicycle parking structures. In fact, parking is so readily available that many riders keep a bike at their origin and destination stations. The three-story parking-garage-style facility outside Amsterdam´s Central Station holds some 9,000 bikes, while Groningen has a massive, covered and guarded facility that holds 4,500 bikes. And yet even these structures do not seem to meet demand.
The spatial and aesthetic challenges of having too many parked bikes attached to every last lamppost and historic building has prompted some wonderfully innovative design and market responses. The underground "Bicycle Parking Tower"—actually a series of 36 towers—at the Kasai Station in Edogawa, Tokyo, holds more than 9,000 bicycles, any of which can be retrieved within 23 seconds via an automated mechanism. In Zaragoza and a few other Spanish cities, meanwhile, the Biceberg, a small kiosk beneath which sits a storage bay, creates spots for 92 bicycles in the same space that four cars would occupy. Another approach is to combine guarded bicycle parking in a one-stop facility with mechanics, bike stores, education, and other services, as with Brazil´s ASCOBIKE. Muenster´s "Radstation" comes complete with a bicycle wash—for $4. In the United States, the for-profit Bikestation sells secure parking ("valet and controlled access") and provides air for tires as well as showers and Wi-Fi in its "bike-transit centers," in cities ranging from Santa Barbara, Calif., to Seattle. At Washington, D.C.´s Union Station, a similar concept — with everything from rentals to repairs — is scheduled to open in August, a swooping shell of glass and tubes, designed by KPG and at least partially inspired by the arc of a bicycle wheel.
Of course, even in a bicycling paradise like Copenhagen, bicycle parking is hardly ideal. "Parking is the last great challenge in a bike culture," as Mikael Colville-Andersen, who writes the Copenhagenize blog, told me. In its 2004 "Traffic and Environment Plan," the city of Copenhagen, noting that bike parking wasn´t even assessed until 2001 (when it was found there were 2,900 spaces in the historic center), declared: "Only one third of cyclists are satisfied with their options for parking their bicycles and other road users, particularly walkers, are increasingly annoyed by parked cycles."
This last point brings up another problem: So-called "bicycle pollution," or the clutter of masses of bikes chained to every last railing. In a city where bikes outnumber people, this is perhaps inevitable, but it´s also a function of the inherent appeal of bikes—literal door-to-door transportation. As Colville-Andersen put it, "people prefer to park on the street, leaning the bikes up against the building. It´s all about ease-of-use. If you can´t walk out your door and get on your bike in under 30 seconds, it´s irritating." Still, space has its limits, and in a design competition to upgrade Vartov Square, next to Copenhagen´s City Hall—which the mayor´s office notes "mainly looks like a cluttered and worn parking area"—there is a call for underground bicycle parking.
Meanwhile, back in Portland, Ore., as bicycle parking gets more respect, another bastion of the automobile landscape is getting a makeover: access, and perhaps even special lanes, for bicycles at the drive-throughs of fast-food joints.
Correction, Aug. 19, 2009: This article originally stated that Pittsburgh might require one bike parking space for every 20,000 feet of development. The unit in this figure should have been square feet. (Return to the corrected sentence.)
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we have the widest range of bicycle storage systems and bicycle parking racks available! We carry commercial bike parking racks, bike lockers, home storage systems, hitch, hoop and wave style racks, as well as custom designed racks and campus rack systems. Our bike racks provide the safety and stability to support multiple bikes and are compatible with standard cable or U-style bike locks. We encourage alternative transportation and are happy to help you find the perfect bike parking solution!
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UNDERCOVER presentó ayer en la Feria de Muestras de Ferrol su primer Bigloo, destacando las ventajas únicas que ofrece el sistema. Javier Guerra, conselleiro de Industria, inauguró el histórico certamen con la visita al bigloo, valorando las virtudes del novedoso sistema que permite compaginar el estacionamiento de bicicletas tanto públicas como privadas con el alquiler de las mismas.