An elegant alternative to the dreary boltdown ‘toast-rack’ often found at stations and workplaces. This stand is robust, very secure cycleparking for public places, schools and workplaces (& amongst other things, it doesn’t trap litter like the ‘toast-rack’). Contact us for more details/prices.

This is when it gets exciting:
taken to their full potential, PlantLocks secure bicycles outside, and offer the whole street much more than is possible with a standard concreted-in hoop.

Credit: Chris Kenyon

Currently we sell PlantLocks to cyclists and businesses in Germany, and in Sweden there’s been growing interest both for cycleparking and buggy/pushchair parking. But what to do about the winter permafrost? We need advice on local ice-hardy perennials.

Available from us & the Design Museum Shop, London. Comes in printed and hand-stitched kraftpaper bag (for re-use) with vegetable-growing calendar on back.
£25 + £2 p&p

Nice to see him cycling around familiar streets.
Delicatessen Melrose & Morgan requested these PlantLocks from Camden Council, and did a deal where they got the cycleparking they wanted, in return for the shop maintaining the planting.

PlantLock is up for The Design Museum’s ‘Design of the Year’, and
The Front Yard Company – Finalist in Environmental Awards.

The garden museum, adjacent to Lambeth Palace, has PlantLocks for its visitors arriving by bicycle. Helen Maurer mentioned the planting to us, so we got down there to have a look: a luscious seasonal mix of flowers and food await you.
And your bike will still be there when you come back out of the museum.

“The plantlock is wonderful – I’ve just planted it up with tulips for
the spring”. Meghan

“Our PlantLocks have made us many many friends with the locals. They really communicate our values. We have grown a crazy mix of herbs, strawberies and cabbage!”

OCWT ran a PlantLock planting project with Iffley Mead School, Oxford, whose pupils have moderate learning difficulties.

Oxford Cycle Workshop hope to offer a PlantLock supply and aftercare service with RESTORE, an Oxfordshire mental health charity.

From the start we’ve been interested in how we improve the biodiversity values of urban planting. Nectar loving insects obviously love flowers, & PlantLocks can be a way of introducing food plants for insects. Dusty of Living Roofs suggested a cornfield wildflower mixture on a very poor soil. Below is this over 2 consecutive summers, left to its own devices (rainfall only). Hoverflies & bees seemed to be frequent visitors.

Continuing the trail of unusual bikes seen locked to PlantLocks, a Pedersen pattern bicycle locked to a PlantLock from the blog www.realcycling.co.uk
“we have one (a PlantLock) in our front yard at home, and it’s just perfect.”

A PlantLock user in London asked about growing potatoes in her PlantLock. Whilst not recommending plants with delicate stems, we decided to give it a go ourselves.
The result: fresh-dug potatoes for lunch.

Emma’s been cycling around and photographing PlantLocks on and off her route from Peckham to Kentish Town.

Lots of people say “ooh I wouldn’t leave my bike out front where I live!”. However we have many, many customers with PlantLocks and BikePorts in their front yards in Hackney – a place where bike theft is not a stranger.
No one has lost a bike.