The Biceberg - Bicycle Parking Underground
Photos of the Biceberg in Zaragoza.
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.
It takes thirty seconds to drop off or retrieve your bike. The system works with a subscription card with a chip. As far as I can see it is for subscribers who will use it daily.
Last year we posted about automated bicycle parking in Tokyo in the same vein. In Toyko, however, it's a high-volume affair at train stations. These Bicebergs are meant for smaller volume but also for spaces that are tighter.
See more on the company's website here.
Photos of the Biceberg in Gerona.
Here's a little film from the company's website.
Thanks to Mayte for the heads up.
19 thinking out louds:
That is so cool!
Also fine to store your luggage. Or your kids... ;-D
But too small for a Long John or a trailer :-(
Word Verification: doper
Hmmm, Tour de France, anyone?
...or to live in. Cheap apartment, central location
Hey, I love the idea of living in there. But what if there's a failure with this pretty complicated looking thing?
In my opinion it's much too complicated! Keep it simple stupid. I prefer the "park your bike everywhere you can lock it to" approach you have in Copenhagen.
Especially in the Spanish speaking world (South America, Spain) I think nobody would really bother. Only the risk of losing your bike might be pretty high in some areas of Bogota or Caracas especially.
And BTW: They should have pumped up the rear tire of the bike featured first :-)
Interesting, according to the movie, that you can fit up to 92 bikes in the space taken by 4 cars in a traditional parking garage. I didn't look around the website very far, but it seems to be a subscription service given the use of a chip card. They have set these up, with local government support, at multimodal transit points in five cities in Aragon (where they are based), the Basque Country, and Catalonia, and plan several more in these places while hoping to expand northward in Europe. The weather- and tamper-proof aspect is quite nice...
I wonder if they are self-powered? I live in an area with not infrequent power outages in the winter. It would be awful to not be able to get your bike because of an outage or bad wiring.
nice street storage for bikes! well I wish we hade something like that here in vienna! so far it doesn't offer any of this street culture!
but this looks nice
http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/04/21/cant-cross-a-virtual-wall/
paul
Please, see that
http://www.dcf.dk/media(455,1030)/Rapport_fra_studierejse_til_fem_europ%C3%A6iske_lande.pdf
Adriene, the biceberg as the bigloo with the street furniture can be supplied with modular photovoltaic energy receivers. In this case the electromechanical elements can be run on 24 V. DC, thus eliminating the losses that occur with traditional DC/AC/DC converters and endowing the installation with better energy efficiency performance than any other of its type on the market. I recommend you view the www.bigloo.eu and download PowerPoint
i saw the dcf link, but i don't see the point. it's not a little organisation like the dcf who makes these things happen, it's the city.
this link is better, pag 32-81 ,http://www.dcf.dk/cykelparkering and http://www.dcf.dk/media(455,1030)/Rapport_fra_studierejse_til_fem_europ%C3%A6iske_lande.pdf
pag 50 to 54
surprising, biceberg and bigloo. Its a fantastic idea, a great alternative.
It´s a perfect product for the promotion and development of individual transport by bicycle, by means of the parking and rental of bicycles which can be adapted to each circumstance.
Biceberg is installed in Spanish territory, most of them in Catalonia region, Basque Country, and Aragon, all of them promoted by governmental entities. See the panoramio link
http://www.panoramio.com/user/182556
is a good way of urban transport and contribute to a development of intermodal transport.
Great innovation!
Ok...I also see it a way too complicated system. I'm from Spain and when I lock my bike with even 3 locks i can't stop feeling my heart stop every time i have to pick up again the bike, since there are many bike robberies. But this??? I mean, this is way too complicated...a whole infraestructure to just store ur bike...come on....when there's plenty of street there where you can leave your bike. The deep problem here is insecurity. We should be able to leave our bikes outside without having to pray if it will stay there after some time.
So it would be much more environtmentally friendly to just leave your bike outside (and I love seeing bikes on the street!! makes it a better place to live!) and spare all that construction...not to mention what would happen when the system failed....
The only thing i find it could be useful is as an apartment :-P :-P
Hello Everybody
I am from Zaragoza.
That Parking for bycicles unfurnately I think it worked only for six months.Its been closed for more than three years... We are not that cool... We have got two of those in the city and none of them work. If the actual politicians wanted it would be open
Salud y Buen pedal!
here it is the cyclist web we have
www.colectivopedalea.org
Hello Colectivo Pedalea...
I´m from Zaragoza too and I work at the University.
I have realized that you are not well informed and your comment gives a non real information. There are two bicebergs in Zaragoza, and I´ve been using both since 2001.The one wich is located in Nolasco´s square, and wich belongs to "Gobierno de Aragón", was closed in 2007 due to politics issues, but the biceberg located close to the University has been running perfectly since it opened, and I use it everyday. I think it´s a perfect system for those who use the bike everyday, you can keep safety your bike and can keep the backpack, the helmet or those accesories that you need . I´m very happy with this system and I think politicians (and organizations such as the one that you belong to) must to promote such solutions to improve the infrastructures for bikes and to encourage people to using the bikes too.
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