Bicycle parking rack

摘要

Upstanding side rails (30) are welded to oppositely facing surfaces of opposed rectangular top and bottom plates (32,34) at respective corners thereof to form a unitary, rigid, parallelepiped open frame structure (12) defining an open front slot (16) sized to receive a bicycle wheel (W) rim (R) and tire (T). Deflectable resilient members (37) are mounted to opposite side rails at the open front slot and extending towards each other permitting entry of the bicycle wheel rim and tire into the interior of the parallelepiped, open frame structure and snap behind the bicycle wheel rim. Horizontal side rails or plates (36) and rear plates are fixed to respective pairs of opposed vertical side rails (30) along both sides and at the rear to properly retain the wheel, to render the structure rigid and to add strength thereto. Apertures (38,40) in the bottom and top plates (32,34) permit fixedly mounting of the module to a planar support member beneath the bottom plate and to a transverse common coupling member overlying the top plates of a plurality of upright modules to form a multi-module bicycle rack. The transverse common coupling member may be formed by a bench, a planar seat, a table top or an upwardly open box-like planter. A steel security arm (14) having a head bolt (18) or threaded stud (50) welded to one end of a square metal tubing of elongated form and having a U-shaped steel loop welded to the opposite end of the arm may be rotatably mounted to the open frame structure by being threaded into a nut (42) welded to the open frame structure beneath the top plate. The security arm is coupled to a bicycle frame by a U-lock.