Design
Believe It or Not, This Weird Funnel-Shaped Thing Is a Bike Rack
Meet the first person in America to embrace the European "Cyclepod."
The other week while I was traveling by the Public Market, a boutique shopping mall in the East Bay city of Emeryville, my neck was whipped to the side by a big, dark presence. It looked like an upside-down tornado, or the vortex of a black hole, or perhaps a giant megaphone that Cyclops would yell through.
It did not immediately look like what it is – a bike rack, or as the Europeans know it, a "Cyclepod." Here's what a full pod looks like (the one pictured above is a half version):