Bike Tree - Secure bike storage

I’ve always been hesitant about biking into the city center due to the fear of having my bicycle stolen (again).

The Bike Tree is an ingenious parking solution that defeats many of the problems linked to leaving your bike chained to a lamp post and praying it will still be there when you get back: your bike gets carried up the tree’s “trunk” and stored under a protective dome several meters in the air, well protected from the elements and evil hands.

They’ve been adding cycle paths in a seemingly random fashion around Brussels in order to promote the bicycle as a legitimate mode of transport, but if they really want to push bike use I’d suggest adding some of these trees around town. I’d certainly use them. [via]