Another Bike Parking Failure

Cafe LeBoux, 51st and Folsom

This rack has a nice visual design, I'll give it that.  Simple, but aesthetically pleasing.  Appropriately placed in front of cafe.  However, this rack fails in the way so many racks do.  The bars are too narrowly placed, so many or most bikes are too wide at the front, and the bike fork cannot fit between the bars.   While this can sometimes be overcome by lifting your bike up and over the top of the rack, in this instance, the top is blocked by a nice little metal image of a coffee cup.  

Thus, a rack that should fit four or five bikes, can fit only two.  It seems as though the people who design and the people who purchase these racks simple aren't aware of basic bike parking fundamentals.  It's too bad, because I appreciate the consideration in including bike parking at all.  Perhaps this design can be salvaged by removing every other vertical bar.  The owners are unlikely to want to remove the very thematic coffee cup from the top.