Copenhagenize.com - Bicycle Culture by Design: Coolest Bike Parking in San Francisco


I’ve not seen such cool bike parking in ages. At my hotel in San Francisco - the W Hotel - they have three Danish Biomega bicycles for guests to use free. Okay, three isn’t much, but it’s what they do with them that counts.
It’s like a museum the way they hang them up on the wall like that. You ask the valet for a bicycle and he walks over with a crank and proceeds to lower - slowly and cerimoniously - the bicycle to the ground. Now THAT is style over speed!

I rode the bicycle during the Halloween Critical Mass and the next day, too, with some friends. A one-speed on the hills of San Francisco. Easy peasy.

Here's what other bikes I've been riding whilst travelling.


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