Creative Commons image by Arturo Pardavila III from Hoboken, NJ
Do you remember the green bike that hung on the wall of Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment on the set of his ‘90s sitcom hit? It’s no wonder you never saw Jerry riding it. Just imagine the pain of dragging that thing up and down the stairs of his Upper West Side walkup.
For today’s apartment-dwellers, owning and using a bike can be a hassle-free experience, thanks to the rapid advancement of bike storage and maintenance fixtures available for today’s residential communities.
At CIP Finishes, we’ve seen this evolution first-hand. More than a decade ago, we were installing metal stationary bike racks as developers began to cater to those who preferred commuting on two wheels.
Today, we are installing a wide range of bike amenities, as the number of Americans who say they commute to work by biking has grown from 488,000 in 2000 to 786,000 in 2019, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
The League of American Bicyclists has declared May as National Bike Month, and May 20, 2022, celebrates bike commuters with National Bike to Work Day.
Modern multifamily developments are playing a big role in helping more individuals bike to work, both by locating closer to employment centers and transit hubs that can augment biking, and by installing state-of-the-art bike garages and bike repair stations that make it a joy to be a bike owner in an apartment community.
Our estimators know this market well, and can help you find the right products to ensure your project stands out to the growing number of potential tenants who want to#BikeThere on a regular basis.
These Dero bike racks and Fixit station were installed in March at the Big Sky Flats community in Washington, D.C.
Also in the Dero line is the Dero Decker two-tiered bike storage system, with the smallest footprint of any bike storage product on the market. Dero has built a lift-assist mechanism into this system that makes it almost effortless for bike owners to store and remove bikes, whether they are on the top or bottom rack. We recently created a bike room with these racks at the Ritz-Carlton Residences, Chevy Chase, pictured below.
Building bikes into an apartment community is all about efficient use of space. Our estimators can work with blueprints to help you determine which products and configurations will maximize bike space in your common areas. We recently installed vertical bike storage at Sursum Corda, a 561-unit community under construction by Ellisdale in Washington, D.C.
The bike room we recently installed for Foulger-Pratt at the Harwood Flats community in North Bethesda, Md., includes both vertical and floor storage, as well as a Fixit station.
If you are looking to accommodate cyclists in your development, CIP Finishes can furnish and install the latest advances in amenities that cater to this growing segment of the market.
Contact us for a quote today.