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The wildly popular video of this German bike lock prototype blew me away. Clamp your bike to the motorized unit, and it scurries up a lamp post, securing your bike in the sky. [via GOOD]
38 thoughts on “Bike Lock Lifts Your Bike Out of Reach”
Jeffsays:
This will work great, until someone else also attaches and ascends a bike on the same pole, under the first one, and is nowhere to be found when the first bike’s owner needs his bike back.
Jeffsays:
This will work great, until someone else also attaches and ascends a bike on the same pole, under the first one, and is nowhere to be found when the first bike’s owner needs his bike back.
Jeffsays:
This will work great, until someone else also attaches and ascends a bike on the same pole, under the first one, and is nowhere to be found when the first bike’s owner needs his bike back.
Jeffsays:
This will work great, until someone else also attaches and ascends a bike on the same pole, under the first one, and is nowhere to be found when the first bike’s owner needs his bike back.
Jeffsays:
This will work great, until someone else also attaches and ascends a bike on the same pole, under the first one, and is nowhere to be found when the first bike’s owner needs his bike back.
Jeffsays:
This will work great, until someone else also attaches and ascends a bike on the same pole, under the first one, and is nowhere to be found when the first bike’s owner needs his bike back.
Jeff Haskellsays:
Good point – Could they put in some sort of “intelligent” sensor that won’t allow it to ascend if there’s already a bike on a pole?
Scott Cairosays:
simples-a microswitch that reverses the motor if it hits an obstruction. Should have that anyways, Im guessing. I suppose since its an IR device-the tech behind a TVBgone could jam IR activity if your bikes up there, obv not jam YOUR IR activity.
Anonymoussays:
That’s makes sense. Also, you don’t have to carry a few pounds of metal and motors around in your backpack. It would them become an added source of income for the owner, probably the local municipality (which will now have an incentive to encourage theft of bikes not using their protection racket, uh I mean protection system.).
Anonymoussays:
That’s makes sense. Also, you don’t have to carry a few pounds of metal and motors around in your backpack. It would them become an added source of income for the owner, probably the local municipality (which will now have an incentive to encourage theft of bikes not using their protection racket, uh I mean protection system.).
simples-a microswitch that reverses the motor if it hits an obstruction. Should have that anyways, Im guessing. I suppose since its an IR device-the tech behind a TVBgone could jam IR activity if your bikes up there, obv not jam YOUR IR activity.
Hendry Betts IIIsays:
I didn’t read Jeff’s comment. I had the exact same question.
Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.
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This will work great, until someone else also attaches and ascends a bike on the same pole, under the first one, and is nowhere to be found when the first bike’s owner needs his bike back.
This will work great, until someone else also attaches and ascends a bike on the same pole, under the first one, and is nowhere to be found when the first bike’s owner needs his bike back.
This will work great, until someone else also attaches and ascends a bike on the same pole, under the first one, and is nowhere to be found when the first bike’s owner needs his bike back.
This will work great, until someone else also attaches and ascends a bike on the same pole, under the first one, and is nowhere to be found when the first bike’s owner needs his bike back.
This will work great, until someone else also attaches and ascends a bike on the same pole, under the first one, and is nowhere to be found when the first bike’s owner needs his bike back.
This will work great, until someone else also attaches and ascends a bike on the same pole, under the first one, and is nowhere to be found when the first bike’s owner needs his bike back.
Good point – Could they put in some sort of “intelligent” sensor that won’t allow it to ascend if there’s already a bike on a pole?
simples-a microswitch that reverses the motor if it hits an obstruction. Should have that anyways, Im guessing. I suppose since its an IR device-the tech behind a TVBgone could jam IR activity if your bikes up there, obv not jam YOUR IR activity.
That’s makes sense. Also, you don’t have to carry a few pounds of metal and motors around in your backpack. It would them become an added source of income for the owner, probably the local municipality (which will now have an incentive to encourage theft of bikes not using their protection racket, uh I mean protection system.).
That’s makes sense. Also, you don’t have to carry a few pounds of metal and motors around in your backpack. It would them become an added source of income for the owner, probably the local municipality (which will now have an incentive to encourage theft of bikes not using their protection racket, uh I mean protection system.).
Kind of like this? http://www.biketree.com/
simples-a microswitch that reverses the motor if it hits an obstruction. Should have that anyways, Im guessing. I suppose since its an IR device-the tech behind a TVBgone could jam IR activity if your bikes up there, obv not jam YOUR IR activity.
I didn’t read Jeff’s comment. I had the exact same question.
curious how these stories skip across the temporal pond. this one is approximately a year old. and even nearly the same comments are (serendipitously?) revisited …
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/29/bicycle-lock-climbs-poles-encourages-would-be-thieves-to-look-e/
curious how these stories skip across the temporal pond. this one is approximately a year old. and even nearly the same comments are (serendipitously?) revisited …
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/29/bicycle-lock-climbs-poles-encourages-would-be-thieves-to-look-e/
What happens when the batteries run out and your bikes still “safe” up a lampost? I hope theres a battery warning light.
Great idea! Where can I follow the project? Good luck.
What if someone figures out what frequency your remote is? Bye Bye Bike.
What if someone figures out what frequency your remote is? Bye Bye Bike.