i built some while i was at Community Cycles in Boulder that may still be around or not. i don't have any photos but i think i can describe them well enough. Rich or Wanda or someone there may have photos of them in action.

A frames, built out of commercial sheet metal studs dumpstered with permission from construction sites and bought/donated from a local construction materials re-use place. 
one rack consisted of 2 a frames and two 10' lengths of 1.5" conduit. the legs of the A-frames were lengths of metal studs, about 6 feet long. they were attached on both sides by two pieces of plywood. (4 pieces of plywood per A-frame.) one at the middle, where the crossbar in an "A" is, and the other was a trapezoid of wood that matched the angle of the studs. Each of those had two 1.75" holes drilled, next to each other horizontally. this allowed you to use three A-frames with two pieces of conduit for a double rack. if anyone wants, i can sketch this design up for clarity. 
 the design was pretty good and stable. once we started loading them up with clunker steel bikes, the conduit would bend a bit, so bike parking monitors had to pay attention to this as they were loading the racks. 
 two A-frames and one piece of conduit held 6 bikes before starting to give under the weight, depending on the bikes. i.e., not 6 steel cruiser bikes. 
 they were light enough that i could carry 10 or 12 A-frames and as many lengths of conduit on one bike trailer trip, with plenty of extra space in the trailer for toolboxes and some basic tabling materials. 

i hobbled those together fairly quickly, and by the end of my time at the shop, the bottom of the legs (open sheet metal studs) had started to get dinged up and bend inwards. i'm certain that some shoring up with pieces of plywood or other metal of some kind would make them last years. 




On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Brian Drayton <nairb1969@gmail.com> wrote:
I like your system.. and it is light and   easy to deploy.  Too many  loose parts for me .   My original design was with conduit the one inch conduit for legs and the 2"  conduit for the  racks. 

They where so sturdy  that I still use them after three years in service.. The limitation was the combined  weight of 20- 30 of them at 10.12 lbs each was killing my bike trailers.   The new ones are 4. 23 lbs and   half the length because they accordion...  It's nice to be able to pack 20 of them on a bikes at work or burley cargo trailer and deploy parking for nearly 300  bikes.  and not have to haggle with  matching  extra parts and  extra pieces to assemble.      
I actually want to get  the diy ones going because of the ability to make custom  configurations and  think the  canopy fixtures with the pvc can be the coral fencing...   I've been using climbing rope and road ballards

Brian Drayton
Oakland SPOKES Community Bike Lounge
465 9th Street
Oakland, Ca. 94607

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On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Reno Bikes <renobikeproject@gmail.com> wrote:
We've been doing BV for about 6 years using a DYI system of canopy parts and conduit. 
And 
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Allied-Tube-Conduit-1-in-x-10-ft-Electric-Metallic-Tube-Conduit-101568/100400409?N=bohlZ12kx#.UaZJr2TwJIg - There are two wall thicknesses, make sure to get the thicker one. We cut the 10' in half for the legs and then string 10' sections together. (you can also buy end pieces like what it pictured in the foreground of the picture below, but not necessary) 

It ends up looking like this. 


Easy to break down and you can connect as many sections as you want. 
Just an affordable option, not trying to undercut anyone. 

Feel free to holler if you need any help.

Noah


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Brian Drayton <brian@oaklandspokes.org> wrote:
Valet Bike Parking is like a coat check for your bike. Your organizaton  can  provide safe, free , event parking for many of the outdoor festivals  in your area..  


It is a fun way to be involved in the festivities of your cities events while promoting bicycling as an everyday means of transportation for everyone, and lowering the carbon foot print of each event , the city, and the planet. It is also an opportunity to work with your  community spreading cycle frienly service and encouraging cycle culture .
 
"For Brian Drayton, bike parking is not just a convenience; it's a necessity, a mission, a movement in the making. Richmond Spokes, the organization he founded in early 2009, provides valet bicycle parking at about 25 small- to medium-size events throughout the Bay Area each year. But more impressive than that is his sheer ambition.
"I want people to understand we can use bikes for everything, everyday," Drayton said. "There should be as many bike-parking facilities as there are gas stations in the world."
 


***SPOKES can also prepare a Bike  Valet  SUrvival  kit with instrucions  best practices   forms documents and  strategies for  marketing , deploying and  monitizing your Bike Valet  movement 


NEW!!!  Spokes New Portable (Moved by Bikes)Racks are durable and compact and available to other  community bike orgs through SPOKES. 

  2013 SPOKES GETS NEW RACKS  (Available Now)

2013

After three years of our basic  steel conduit racks , SPOKES has found the rack that  rocks  for bike Valet.   By this spring  SPOKES will have replaced all our old  racks with  the Moved by bikes portable racks.

SPOKES is also going to be Subsidizing these racks  for other community bike organizations and bike coops  to encourage  the National Bike Movement in each SPOKES city. 




Price List 
Racks are:
  • $190 Each MSRP  for  companies and  individuals
  • $100-$160 for  qualifying  community members and community bike organizations & cycling clubs*

Please fill out  Rack Purchase inquiry below and let us know about your organization. 




For inquiries email:  racks@richmondspokes.org or call the Shop at 510-545-2243


*  The community Bike Collective is dedicated to providing technical support and financial assistance to any community serving organization showing the will capacity and audience for Free Bike Valet services within their community. 

For more information about CBC  and how we areplanning to  use collective purchasing capitol  to create  deeper econimic  prosperity in the community bike  culture.  Please join us:

CBC reserves the right to review applications and make delegations of subsidies and discounts under the strict criteria based on the factors set by our advisory and board of directors to make such delegations of the for mentioned subsidies to organizations contributing to our national Bike Valet Movement. 

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Brian Drayton
Oakland SPOKES Community Bike Lounge
465 9th Street
Oakland, Ca. 94607

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