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		<title>Racking: Its Uses and Benefits</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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One of the more common storage methods often used in warehouses is known as pallet racking. This is when pallets containing goods are loaded on top of each other in an orderly manner. It is also a method of ensuring that goods are shifted around securely from one location to the other. However, racks are [...]]]></description>
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<p>One of the more common storage methods often used in warehouses is known as pallet racking. This is when pallets containing goods are loaded on top of each other in an orderly manner. It is also a method of ensuring that goods are shifted around securely from one location to the other. However, racks are used for much more than the aforementioned purposes and are often designed in different shapes and sizes to suit the intended function, functions that are utilised a lot closer to home than one thinks &#8211; not by a business, but by the average everyday consumer. You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn’t use a rack in some shape or form at least once or twice during the course of their day, whether they’re aware of it or not. Racking is more a part of our everyday lives than some of us may realise. Meet Susan, a 25 year old medical student. It’s 6.45am and she’s up. She picks out one of her favourite jazz numbers off the CD rack and pops it in the player as she yawns her way to the shower. Grabbing her towel off the towel rack, she sings very badly to herself. She stares at the shoe rack. The flat brown pair it is, then. Quickly grabbing her medical journal off the magazine rack and her brolly off the coat rack, she’s out the door in 20 minutes flat.</p>
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<p>If all the racks we used suddenly upped and disappeared, we’d be left with a lot more clutter and disarray than we bargained for. Without racking, plates would lie in a hopeless dishevelled heap on our kitchen worktops, the spaces in dishwashers wouldn’t be used quite as efficiently, and bicycles would either have to lean against nearby walls or invent their own gravity to hold themselves up without the friendly shoulders of bike racks to lean on. Towns like Amsterdam, where there’s a big bicycle culture, would be in a quandary. Lorries in transit would shiver nervously down the motorway without rack support for the pallets in the back of their vehicles; and similarly, warehouses wouldn’t be able to utilise their storage space half as practically (or safely) as pallet racking enables them to. And can you imagine going to the gym, all those weights without racks to hold them in place? Weight lifting would not only be a pretty impractical thing to do (unless you had a training partner), it would present a serious health and safety hazard to the individual. </p>
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<p>It’s just gone 7pm. Susan walks through the door after a long hard day at work. Tossing her keys on the work-top, she makes a beeline for the last bottle of Chianti from the wine rack &#8211; treating herself to a well deserved mouthful as she slowly sinks into the sofa. Racking represents a degree of order in a chaotic world. It’s simple but essential; practical assembled pieces of design that work with our needs, not against them</p>
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		<title>The Benefits Of A Car Roof Bike Rack</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are several different kinds of car bike racks. The car roof bike racks are convenient and easy to install to help make your bicycling more fun and enjoyable.  </p>
<p>&#13;Carrying your family&amp;#8217;s bikes can be quite a task without a car bike rack.  They make several different versions of a car bike rack, including ones that go onto the vehicle roof.  Trips are very common nowadays and having the ability to carry your bikes with you can help you turn those trips into exercise and fun.  A bicycle ride can be just what you need to help yourself to relax and have fun to recuperate from your stressful workweek.    </p>
<p>&#13;Making bicycling a family activity can be a great way to bond with your kids and have fun.  A car bike rack will be essential to enable you to haul all of those bikes around with as little effort as possible.  Whatever the age of your children, you can have a very good time by bicycling together.    </p>
<p>&#13;Installing a car bike rack can enable you to bike anywhere that you want to with your entire family.  A car bike rack can keep your biking investment safe and keep them securely attached to your car.  It will be easy to load your bikes, too.  Even your children can help you with loading and unloading the bikes as needed.     </p>
<p>&#13;If you have been worried about the bicycles damaging your vehicle, then you can stop worrying.  A car bike rack will keep your bicycles stable so that your bikes and your car are not damaged.  You will find that you go biking much more often, because you have an easy and simple way to get your bikes to your favorite trails.    </p>
<p>&#13;You may remember that car bike racks when you were younger were very irritating to install and use.  They were not sturdy and it seemed to take forever to load the bikes onto the rack.  That is not the case, however, with the newer car bike racks.    </p>
<p>&#13;The car bike racks that you find today are so much more consumer friendly.  They are easy to install and easy to use, which makes it easier to take your bike anywhere that you choose-from beach to forest.  You will find that even your children can help you quickly load the bikes onto your vehicle to help you get on your way much quicker.    </p>
<p>&#13;After you are ready to start on your journey, you will have to worry about your bicycles.  They will be safe and secure on your car bike rack and you will not have to listen to them moving, because they will be stable.  No damage would be done to your bikes or your vehicle.     </p>
<p>&#13;The investment that you make in your bicycles can be quite large.  That is why you will want to choose the right car bike rack for your needs to help keep that investment safe and sound for many years to come.</p>
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<div class="text">Alastair Hamilton is a freelance writer for <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href="http://www.bikecyclingreviews.com">http://www.bikecyclingreviews.com</a> . Find more publications about <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href="http://www.bikecyclingreviews.com/car_racks.html">car bike rack</a> at his website.</div>
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