Imagine if you could have a place to repair your bike that’s not a bike shop but also allows you to buy any and all of the tools you need at point of sale? Well, it exists now in the Uptown Transit Station in Minneapolis, MN, in the form of a kiosk and a free bike stand!
Some ideas are so simple that I am always amazed that they have never been done before when I finally do see them for the first time. I know it is an elegant solution when I hit myself in the forehead with my palm — and so was the case with the Bike Fixtation bike repair kiosk, including adjacent bike stand. Via Urban Velo, Bike Fixtation Self-service Bike Repair Kiosk:
Self-serve bike repair kiosks and bicycle specific vending machines are ideas I’ve heard batted around by a number of people, but perhaps only now are some cities in a place to support them. Bike Fixtation has just installed their first kiosk in the Uptown Transit Station in Minneapolis MN, with a free repair stand, air pump and basic tools and a vending machine stocked with tubes, patch kits, small lights, waterbottles, multi-tools etc.
