We have and will continue to do so. Big race in Wilmington last year, we parked about 200 bikes...It was a bit of a mess (most of these bikes parked in a half hour immediately following a bike parade) but our first time and plenty to be learned from the experience.
It get's your name out, people are very appreciative for not having to lock up, some even throw a few bucks in the donation jar. We stapled a piece of paper to each bike with information about our organization and got lots of people emailing after the event.
We had a small "town square" type deal cordoned off and bikes were parked with kickstands or leaned against trees/walls. Bikes were tagged with a door hang type thing, the person parking got a small piece of paper with a matching number that rips off the bottom (will post a picture to the wiki when i can). I recommend against using this system in the future because the door hangs are not very solidly attached and fall off fairly easily.
There was no waiver form filled out (no time at all to fill out and lines of 30-50 people waiting to park even without the waiver).
I believe we had 10 of us working the event and it got very hectic. Ideally there would be 1-2 people just tagging bikes and 3-5 people collecting the bikes at the entrance and parking them. For slower volumes you can probably get away with less. We did have a problem with people wandering in (friends or otherwise) to park or get their bike on their own. I'd suggest volunteers wear identifying shirts (different than shirts you may sell to the general public) to make sure people are where they should be.
We also provided bike safety checks for people that were interested.
"Sure as hell not me anymore."
Ronald, what are the reasons you don't do bike parking? curious mainly.
Brian Windle
On 2/10/08, keri conrad kericonrad@gmail.com wrote:
Only at events, from what I can tell. (Bike related, of course) Like at the pedal pushers last year!
On 2/10/08, ronald ferrucci ronald.ferrucci@gmail.com wrote:
Sure as hell not me anymore.
On Feb 10, 2008 7:04 PM, Jonathan Morrison jonathan@slcbikecollective.org wrote:
Does anyone else do it?
http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Valet_Bike_Parking
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