Velib parts and storage

I love orderliness and repetition. So do the French. I was particularly taken with the supply room in the barge where all the Velib bikeshare bikes are fixed in Paris. Since all the bikes are the same, all parts are the same. Bikes come to the barge when they have a part that needs replaced. So, the supply room has stacks and stacks of exactly the same things.




All this repetition makes me think more of art than utility.

I wanted to compare it with San Francisco's Bike Kitchen, which recently opened in its new gorgeous location, but my camera wasn't working when I was at the Bike Kitchen last. Suffice to say, all parts were completely different and equally beautiful.