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We've just recently come across this playful concept for a bike rack. Pretty wild, eh? Known as the Bike Hanger, this contraption was proposed by Manifesto Architecture, a New York-based architecture firm. The conveyor belt like setup allows riders to affix their bike to the structure, and as more bikes get loaded on, a pedal-powered pulley system moves the bikes higher up. When a rider wants to retrieve their wheels, it's just a matter of pedaling until it appears.


Last year we spotted this brilliant bike lock. It's a hacked together remote controlled lock that scales lampposts, keeping bikes out of thieves reach. Just genius. Until, of course, someone locks their bike up beneath yours ...


(Spotted on Gizmodo)



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