Not a bike shop, but an interesting take on inner-city bike parking.

With all those in mind who are fed up with having their bicycles stolen and vandalised, we have opened a parking space exclusively for bicycles: My Beautiful Parking.

The parking space, “My Beautiful Parking”, is open 24 hrs a day, 365 days of the year, including leap years. This is how it works: each user is provided with a card that allows him/her to enter the premises to park or retrieve his/her bicycle when it suits him/her. This card contains the following information of the user: full name, number of national identity card, address and telephone number.

A digital monitor installed in the door registers whenever a user enters or leaves the parking space, generating a data base over the use of each card. Should someone use the card to a foul end, this monitoring will allow quick identification of the culprit.

The parking is very simple. The user places the bicycle in the freight lift, sends it down to the garage and then locks it up to the rails or hooks in a previously assigned slot. And that’s all folks!