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CrunchGear:  Japan wins again with automatic bike parking and retrieval system

MAKE Magazine:  The 'bike tree', an automatic storage system for cycles, can hold up to 6,000 bikes

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Fantastic! RT @archiseek: Has Japan designed the world's best bike shed? A bike tree - http://bit.ly/2l2bmY 5 days ago

RT @archiseek I LOVE IT. Has Japan designed the world's best bike shed? A bike tree - http://bit.ly/2l2bmY 5 days ago

Too many bike parking tickets? Yah right! But if you do - the Japanese created an automated valet bike parking system http://bit.ly/3Vgcjd 5 days ago

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Japan wins again with automatic bike parking and retrieval system
CrunchGear — ... in vogue, and all those fantastic retro-futuristic drawings were born. I remember seeing somewhere the concept for an automatic car parking machine with robots taking your car and stuffing it somewhere in a big warehouse. “That’s ridiculous,” I thought, “When we have the technology to do something like that, we won’t still be driving cars!” Well, I was wrong. Of course it’s not for cars, and of course it’s in Japan, but this automatic bike storage system (video in link) is definitely a little piece of the future. ...

The 'bike tree', an automatic storage system for cycles, can hold up to 6,000 bikes
MAKE Magazine — The '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 ...