Anyone work for ITV / ITN?

asprilla

Are there any cycling facilities (secure parking / showers) at 200 Greys Inn Road?

redvee

Twitter might be a better place to ask, most of the journos are on there and they should be able to offeer some help.

moonio

Yes there are, but depends if you are working for ITN or ITV..ITN have facilities, not sure of ITV has use of themm

Headhuunter

Isn't that where that John Snow guy got his bike nicked?

asprilla

Have been told that ITV have a secure bike area, which i think is outside, but that cyclists can also lock up in the underground car park, which should be safe enough.

scattered pedals

I work there - yeah ITV have underground carpark with swipecard gates, cameras & foot patrols. Never could understand why Jon just locked his to that sign

scattered pedals

are showers too

asprilla

scattered pedals wrote:

I work there - yeah ITV have underground carpark with swipecard gates, cameras & foot patrols. Never could understand why Jon just locked his to that sign

He's not the only one. A mate of mine had two bikes stolen from outside in a six month period and swore blind that there were no secure cycle parking facilities. I can only assume they aren't well publicised in the company.

scattered pedals

yeah happens all the time - gang on bikes, two on one of them usually, cut the lock, jump on & away. Broad daylight as well! I nearly caught them once but they got away leaving me with some hack bike they were on originally. Handed that in to security but nothing came of it - all the cctv is useless apparently! Now when I spot someone locking/unlocking a decent bike there always warn them.

one last Fri went within 20mins!

asprilla

scattered pedals wrote:

one last Fri went within 20mins!

From outside, I assume you mean, rather from the car park?

scattered pedals

yeah the bike racks out the front. The carpark is about as secure as you can get - 2 levels underground, steel shutters operated by your ID card, cameras, security patrols. I think it is part of the bomb-proof bunker they will use to transmit the news in case of WWIII !

asprilla

scattered pedals wrote:

yeah the bike racks out the front. The carpark is about as secure as you can get - 2 levels underground, steel shutters operated by your ID card, cameras, security patrols. I think it is part of the bomb-proof bunker they will use to transmit the news in case of WWIII !

Excellent. Looks like I don't need a cheap new frame for commuting and can go back to looking at deep carbon rims........

scattered pedals

*ad* ITV4 showing chasing legends tomorrow night after the TDF highlights *ad*

nich

scattered pedals wrote:

*ad* ITV4 showing chasing legends tomorrow night after the TDF highlights *ad*

Sweeeet!

iPete

nich wrote:

scattered pedals wrote:

*ad* ITV4 showing chasing legends tomorrow night after the TDF highlights *ad*

Sweeeet!

Awesoooome!! that deserves its own thread tbh!

moonio

There are also bike cages outside the garage, on coley street, thats where I keep my bike.

asprilla

moonio wrote:

There are also bike cages outside the garage, on coley street, thats where I keep my bike.

Yeah, I knew about those ones. If I'd have to use that then I would have had more urgency to get a winter / audax frame. But since I can use the underground car park I can do that later in the year.

asprilla

Just been to pick up my security pass and apparently I have to attach a little blue tag to my bike so it doesn't get padlocked in the car park.

The facilities guys couldn't understand why I would want more than one tag or the concept of owning more than one bike. I asked for three and was given two on the grounds that if I'm still here when it snows I can come and ask for another one.

scattered pedals

Don't worry about those blue tags mate - mine fell off after a couple of months. Quite often have two bikes down there too & never been locked

(touches wood)