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Locky Dock bike parking and e-bike charging station with a digital advertising screen at the Taupō iSite, New Zealand
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Advertising pays for free bike parking in the triple win model

Digital advertising screens let Locky Dock offer free bike parking and e-bike charging to councils and riders. This is how the triple win model works.

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Bikeep smart bike parking stations with bikes docked on both sides of a pedestrian street at the Ülemiste City business campus in Tallinn
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Why business campuses like Ülemiste City choose smart bike parking

Ülemiste City in Tallinn built a campus-wide smart bike parking network. Riders rate it 4.89 out of 5, and no bike has been reported stolen from a station.

Two riders locking e-scooters into the Bikeep scooter parking station at Mustamäe keskus in Tallinn
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E-scooter parking for cities as landlords ban scooters indoors

More landlords and transit operators ban e-scooters indoors. Secure docks with charging give owners a safe place outside, at stops, shops and schools.

An orange bike locked in a Bikeep e-bike charging dock, with a row of docked bikes behind it on Union Road at UNSW Sydney
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University e-bike charging keeps batteries out of campus buildings

UNSW Sydney charges e-bikes outside its buildings. Ten docks have carried more than 8,000 parkings, a model for US universities moving charging outdoors.

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Bikes at a Locky Dock station beside an oOh!media digital advertising screen on Victoria Street, Auckland
Insight3 min read

Media companies want more bike stations in the ground

Locky Dock's media partner has set no limit on how many stations it wants. Why a bike station works as street media, and what that means for operators.

E-bikes locked in pink-armed Locky Dock stations by a row of new homes in New Zealand
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How Big Street Bikers built 100 Locky Dock stations across New Zealand

Since 2018 Big Street Bikers has grown Locky Dock to about 100 free Bikeep stations across New Zealand, with about 198,000 parkings by 14,300 riders.

Five Bikeep docks and a charging cabinet outside the TC Beo shopping centre in Belgrade at night
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How Park 011 built a free bike parking network across Belgrade

Since 2021 Park 011 has grown from one station at Kalemegdan to about 16 Bikeep sites in Belgrade and Kotor, with about 20,900 parkings by 3,200 riders.

Bikes parked at a green co-branded Bikeep smart bike parking station
Insight3 min read

A local retailer offer can fill a bike station

One free scoop of ice cream filled a Locky Dock station in Auckland on a Saturday. Here is how operators can use local retailers to get riders to try a station.

Riders docking bikes at a covered Locky Dock bike parking station beside a digital advertising screen at Paraparaumu train station, New Zealand
Insight3 min read

Build public bike parking at the nodes of daily life

Locky Dock plans bike parking as a network at the nodes of daily life, such as libraries, supermarkets and pools. This is how to pick and rank the sites.

A speaker addresses a crowd at the launch of a Locky Dock bike parking station, with the mayor standing beside the docks
Insight3 min read

How to pitch secure bike parking to a city council

Kirsten Corson of Locky Dock on winning council backing for secure bike parking. Start with theft as the barrier to cycling, then the council's own goals.

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Bikes docked at a Locky Dock station in Dunedin beside a digital screen announcing free bike parking and charging
Insight3 min read

Councils can get public bike parking and e-bike charging for free

Advertising screens pay for Locky Dock stations, so councils get secure bike parking and e-bike charging without spending taxpayers' money.

Supporters and the mayor gather at a new Locky Dock bike parking station on a town-center shopping street in New Zealand
Insight3 min read

Public bike parking and charging help more than cyclists

A mobility scooter user in Whangārei showed Locky Dock what public charging means for a town. The benefits councils can point to go well beyond cycling.

Bikeep smart bike parking station with an orange e-bike and a gray mountain bike locked in its docks outside a building
Insight4 min read

How a San Jose office park went two years without a bike theft

Bike theft keeps office tenants off their bikes. At Cityview Plaza in San Jose, a 10-dock secure bike parking station recorded zero thefts in two years.

An adult and two children on bicycles docking at a Bikeep smart bike parking station in Finland
Insight7 min read

Bike parking adoption takes a campaign, not just a station

Five bike parking stations went from 145 sessions a month to 1,307 without a hardware change. What changed was how riders learned what they were for.

Bikeep circuit boards on the production line, with the Bikeep logo printed on a green PCB
Insight10 min read

Why a scaling bike parking network needs IoT, not Bluetooth

Bluetooth locks scale to a dozen doors. Networks that reach hundreds need devices with their own connection, and a platform that outlives the hardware.

Row of bicycles locked in Bikeep smart bike parking racks beside a solar-powered station kiosk on a BART station plaza in the Bay Area.
News6 min read

What 10 years of BART bike parking taught us about stations that last

Since 2016, Bikeep smart bike parking stations at BART have cut bike theft and outlasted a decade of daily use across the Bay Area transit network.

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