This Is Not a Comb Fit for the Bigwigs

All of us who worry about our carbon footprint have combed the streets for a bike rack at least once in our lives. Now, our search can come to an end, and there, at the finish line, lies… a comb! It’s, of course, more than a common-or-garden comb-shaped ornament, though passers-by might be also justified to view it as an ironic and pithy answer to miniature art… for instance. What do you make of the utilitarian installation?

Sited in Gardin Village, in Roanoke – the city, not the vanishing colony! – it’s indeed the big kahuna of larger-than-life grooming tools fit for the gods. Weighing in excess of 180 kg, this comb also can, and should, be used by us regular mortals, particularly bikers, as intended by its creators, the people at Knowhow Shop LA. As of the July 1^st unveiling, we are invited to secure our two-wheelers in between the teeth of the comb.

Designing street furniture is tricky, as it needs to withstand the tests of time, vandals, stray dogs and the elements, to name just a few. Sure, just how demanding these unwitting evaluators are depends on what kind of city the biker inhabits. Bur fear not, this comb-shaped bike rack will flatter and stand the wear and tear of even the most unkempt of back alleys! By building it (incidentally, by hand!) out of Mangaris, a sturdy and massive type of hardwood, and piecing it all together via mortise-and-tenon joints, the people at Knowhow Shop LA have made sure it doesn’t shatter or float away at the first gust of wind.

(Source: Freshome.com)