[Closed] Double decker bike racks

Please excuse me whilst I vent!

When I was a kid bike racks were bent metal things that held the front wheel. These were only useful if you didn't mind your bike being stolen.

Then came the Sheffield stand. Which is brilliant. Simple, easy to use, easy to secure a bike to and space efficient (provided you don't have panniers).

For some mad reason these are being replaced with double decker racks. Which are awful. They're too narrow, so you can't get two bikes in side by side without the handlebars smashing into other bikes or the supporting metalwork. They have a handle projecting at cyclists' eye level. The tray fills up with tyre shredding glass and tacks. The bottom rack is unusable without smashing your head. The top rack involves a twisting lifting motion with the back, guaranteed to cause a herniated disc. That's if the mechanism hasn't rusted up, which it does after three weeks and then you need three people heaving just to unstick the thing. Maintenance solution to the sticking problem is the spray the racks, bikes and braking surfaces with WD40.

Whoever invented the stupid things can't have been a cyclist. Must be a car manufacturer desperate to stop the rise in people commuting by bike.

Thanks for listening.