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For those of us year-round bike riders, one of the things that makes me smile is, despite the traffic, I\u2019ll never have to look for parking. Locking to a parking meter gives me more joy, and especially when a harried 9-to-5er comes out to feed it while I\u2019m locking up. <\/p>\n

Well, the City of Montreal is making it easier to lock your bike to parking meters. A number of steel rings have been attached to parking meter poles in the city. The ones I\u2019ve seen are on Berri, along the east side of the Bibliotheque Nationale. When I heard about the design I was skeptical \u2013 the description sounded like the ring and post<\/a> bike stands in Toronto with the rings that are prone to being pried right off. But the designers have come up with something that is simple, functional and attractive, and seems to avoid the Toronto problem.<\/p>\n

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From what I can tell, there are many advantages to this new bike stand.
\n\u2022 If you have a chain lock, running it through the ring prevents thieves from lifting your bike up and over the top.
\n\u2022 The ring makes it easier to lock a bike on each side of the pole.
\n\u2022 If your bikes is a standard size, the ring is at the right height to facilitate locking up both the wheel and frame
\n\u2022 The ring goes right around the pole, so it can\u2019t be pried off.
\n\u2022 These bike stands won\u2019t be hauled away for the winter<\/p>\n

The disadvantages:
\n\u2022 From what I\u2019ve seen a lot of people don\u2019t \u201cget\u201d the new locking system and are still just locking to the parking pole itself, or not locking up their front wheel.
\n\u2022 BMX and low-riders are too low for these stands.<\/p>\n

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The one other criticism is not so much about the stand itself, but about the City\u2019s rhetoric surrounding them. They\u2019re saying these rings are creating 2,000 new bicycle parking spots. I will point out that the need for these rings is a direct result of the City changing its parking meter system and putting plastic protectors around the poles, making some of them too fat to take a u-lock. I am, however, happy to see a workable solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of us year-round bike riders, one of the things that makes me smile is, despite the traffic, I\u2019ll never have to look for parking. Locking to a parking meter gives me more joy, and especially when a harried 9-to-5er comes out to feed it while I\u2019m locking up. 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