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The Bike Shed Motorcycle Club is a private members club in Shoreditch, London with a branch in Los Angeles. Described as a "social club for motorcycle enthusiasts", it was founded by Anthony "Dutch" van Someren. The Bike Shed is best known for hosting an annual exhibition of custom motorcycles in Tobacco Dock, Wapping.
The law of triviality is C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 argument that people within an organization commonly give disproportionate weight to trivial issues. [1] Parkinson provides the example of a fictional committee whose job was to approve the plans for a nuclear power plant spending the majority of its time on discussions about relatively minor but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what ...
[e] Its Grade I listing makes it unique among the roughly fifteen such bike sheds which are listed. [19] Historic England, in its discussion of the listings, recalled Nikolaus Pevsner's opening to his An Outline of European Architecture, published in 1943; "a bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture".
This "bicycle shed effect" is easily explained: true expertise on nuclear plants is rare, while everybody can have a say about bicycle sheds, and refreshments are clear and dear to all. Sadly, the "bicycle shed effect" can be noted on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and theoretically every Wikipedian is working to build it.
This is a nice bicycle shed, but too bad it's been proposed to be repainted without being established that it needs to be repainted. Imagine you have spent fifteen minutes discussing what color to paint the bikeshed, with three other people. One person says "Wait, does the bikeshed even need painting?" Another person says "No, we didn't ...
The Bike Shed, which is a youth-led, no-fee bike shop, is run by “Chef Boy RB” Burnette Jr., aka Scraper Bike President. [4] Members of the Original Scraper Bike Team were featured in Boots Riley’s 2018 film Sorry to Bother You as background extras. [9] In 2018, members of the team reported being harassed by San Leandro police, sometimes ...
The station building was built in 1928 and is a timber building with a tiled roof of traditional Japanese design. A ramp leads up from the station forecourt to the building but another short flight of steps is needed to access the platform. Parking and a bike shed are available at the station forecourt. [3] [2] [5]
A bicycle tree or cycle tree or bike tree is a bicycle parking system that resembles a tree in shape. There are a few types that have been developed. Some are manual, some use mechanical means to move the bike, assisting the bike by raising into a particular spot, they can handle between 5–20 bicycles depending on size.