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Has Japan designed the world's best bike shed? | David Munk
The 'bike tree', an automatic storage system for cycles, can hold up to 6,000 bikes – but could it branch out in the UK? It's not often something stops you in your bike tracks. But a spectacular "bike tree" invention from Japan bowled me over when I was in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago. Fed up ...
Video: The bike tree - the 21st-century cycle shed
guardian.co.uk — Illegal parking of bicycles in Japanese cities is a major problem. But one company has come up... with an ingenious and elegant solution David Munk Mustafa Khalili (more) Video: The bike tree - the 21st-century cycle shed
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Yet Another Video of Amazing Japanese Bike Storage System
TreeHuggerLink to video here A while back we showed a Japanese video of How They Store Bikes In Tokyo in crazy multistorey computerized bike parking garage. Now the Guardian picks up the story and shows us a video in English. They describe how it works:...Read the full story on TreeHugger ...

The 'bike tree', an automatic storage system for cycles, can hold up to 6,000 bikes
MAKE MagazineThe 'bike tree', an automatic storage system for cycles, can hold up to 6,000 bikes... watch the video!. David Munk @ THe Guardian.co.uk writes- It's not often something stops you in your bike tracks. But a spectacular "bike tree" invention from Japan bowled me over when I was in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago. Fed up with bicycles locked to railings, piled on top of each other, blocking doorways and roads, a local council in the city installed the mechanical masterpiece. It's basically an automatic storage system for cycles ...

Padlocked By The Earth: Cycle Sheds Go Underground
WebEcoist — ... problems (not to mention a fun, free way to keep us trim) – but a downside is parking. Maybe a parked bike doesn’t take up a lot of room, but in most cities you find every fence and every railing festooned with them. But what if bikes were parked under the street? 2TokyoBike (Images via: Guardian Environment ) The invention of JFE Engineering in Tokyo, this automated bike locker system is called the ...

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Video: The bike tree - the 21st-century cycle shedThe Guardian | Environment
Illegal parking of bicycles in Japanese cities is a major problem. But one company has come up with an ingenious and elegant solution David Munk Mustafa Khalili