Fayetteville Bicycle Racks

The City of Fayetteville, Arkansas held an open-invitation, bicycle rack design competition in August, 2009. As icons of the city's efforts to encouraging cycling, the winning racks would be installed in front of the new District County Courthouse.

BICI submitted five innovative designs, two of which were selected over eleven other entrants. BICI teamed up with framebuilder and metal fabricator Thomas Callahan (www.horsecycles.com) to hand build the racks out of heavy-duty, stainless steel tubing.

"Bench/Rack" is multi-purpose street furniture, intended to generate spontaneous interactions between cyclists and passer-bys resting tired feet. "Scale Rack" pays homage to pre-literate American communities that used strong symbols as wayfinding devices.