It looks loke a cool design object but these kinds of bike-stands are called rim- and spoke-killers for a reason – when the bike does not stand perfectly straight or when a passer-by accidentally knocks it out of balance a huge force is active on a tiny part of the rim and just three spokes, causing them to bend and/or break.
Swissmiss is an online garden Tina Roth Eisenberg started in 2005 and has lovingly tended to ever since.
Besides swissmiss, Tina founded and runs TeuxDeux, CreativeMornings and her Brooklyn based co-working community Friends Work Here. (She also started Tattly which was recently adopted by BIC)
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It looks loke a cool design object but these kinds of bike-stands are called rim- and spoke-killers for a reason – when the bike does not stand perfectly straight or when a passer-by accidentally knocks it out of balance a huge force is active on a tiny part of the rim and just three spokes, causing them to bend and/or break.
Oct 3rd, 2017 / 9:58 am