July 2026 Newsletter

Our midsummer update covers five installations in four countries, from ad-funded street furniture in New Zealand to a pilot that became permanent in Ontario.

Bikeep news

Smart bike parking meets digital street furniture in Napier, New Zealand

Digital street furniture has arrived in Napier, and it runs on Bikeep infrastructure.

Locky Dock, our long-time partner in New Zealand and Australia, launched the stations by pairing Bikeep-powered secure bike parking with advertising-funded street furniture. The model pays for itself.

• Ad revenue covers the infrastructure cost, with no burden on the public budget
• Cities get secure bike parking without new capital spend
• Businesses get street-level advertising placement
• Riders get somewhere safe to lock up

Everyone in the chain gets something they didn't have before. Read more on how advertising funds free bike parking.

Bikeep e-bike charging station in Napier, New Zealand, by Locky Dock

Bikeep arrives at Manchester Victoria station

Bikeep is live at Manchester Victoria, one of the UK's busiest transport hubs, delivered with Northern Trains. Secure bike parking now sits right inside the multimodal commute.

Riders lock the bike, jump on a train, tram or bus, and move through the city without a second thought about their bike. That is the whole idea behind bike-and-rail integration. Remove the friction, and people combine modes without thinking twice.

See how the station went in off-grid at Manchester Victoria.

Off-grid Bikeep station at Manchester Victoria

20 smart bike parking spaces at a health center in Zagreb County, Croatia

20 Bikeep smart bike parking spaces are installed at the Health Center of Zagreb County, Ivanić-Grad Branch. Staff and visitors now have a secure, practical way to arrive by bike.

Secure parking like this does more than protect bikes. It makes cycling a genuine transport choice for public institutions and supports sustainable mobility goals across the region.

Thank you to our partner Technomodul for bringing the project to life. Learn more about our smart bike parking station.

Bikeep station in Zagreb County, Croatia

Secure e-bike parking at Four Bentall Centre, Vancouver

Our second British Columbia installation is live at Four Bentall Centre in downtown Vancouver. A 10-dock Bikeep station with app and RFID access serves tenants and employees at one of the financial district's defining office towers.

Bentall 4 sits on Dunsmuir Street, the spine of Vancouver's protected bike-lane network. The lanes already bring riders downtown. What was missing was somewhere they could trust with a bike for a full workday.

• Hardened steel bars lock across the frame and the front tire
• A 120-decibel alarm sounds on tampering
• Real-time security alerts notify local security straight away

For an office building the space math is simple. One car parking space is expensive to build and holds exactly one car. The same footprint holds ten bikes.

Delivered with our partner Monashee Racks. Read the full story of secure bike parking at Four Bentall Centre.

Bikeep bike parking station in Vancouver, Canada

From pilot to permanent in Kingston, Ontario

Downtown Kingston did it the smart way, with a pilot first and scale second. One summer trial on Princess Street proved the demand. 18 secure Bikeep docks are now permanently installed across three downtown locations, opened for World Car-Free Day in September 2025.

Three things make the station work on streets where other systems struggle.

• No excavation. Weighted ground plates install without permits or ground works, and come out without a trace.
• Triple-layer security. A steel bar across frame and wheel, a cut-safety wire inside it, and an instant tamper alert to the rider's phone.
• App-only access. Only registered users can open a dock.

Kingston was the first city in Ontario to declare a climate emergency, and it is targeting carbon neutrality by 2040. On that timeline, secure bike parking is how an active-transportation plan turns into real trips. Downtown shops gain too, since people who walk, cycle or take transit spend up to 40% more per month in local shops than drivers.

Delivered by Urban Racks. Read why secure on-street bike parking paid off for downtown Kingston.

Bikeep bike parking station in Kingston, Ontario

Why this matters

Five installations in four countries make one argument. Nobody in this update called secure bike parking a nice-to-have.

Kingston ties it to a climate-emergency deadline. Vancouver ties it to real estate math. Napier ties it to a funding model that costs the city nothing. A city, a landlord, a rail operator and an ad-funded street furniture partner reached the same conclusion on their own.

Peak season didn't create this demand. It just made it visible. Once secure parking removes the fear of theft, the bike stops staying at home.

More updates and earlier editions are in Bikeep news.