Ways not to lock your bike

Granted this is in Auckland where bike theft is minimal but still.....

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i could chew through that lock...

That serotta on the last page ...

Why use one space when you can use three? I expect better of Waitrose customers.

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Your Cougar in the corner?

Yep.

Is that your Giant?

The rack should be further away from the wall so both wheels can go beyond bottom bars.
The bike may have rolled back, or someone else taking their bike away knocked this one over.
It could easily be moved if you needed an adjoining space.

Yup, and he's pretty angry.

Ultimate locking

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Cable lock around the fork leg only and a QR wheel.

Just about to leave work now (I'm in Knightsbridge) only to find some fucker has decided to stick their huge cable lock around mine as well. ARGH FOR FUCK SAKE.

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Still waiting. If this isn't one of those thief tactics I'm tempted to put a bullet through the fuckers head.

So if it's a thief you won't shoot them?!

Not sure if hyperbole or gun crime.

Pointless U-lock of the day....

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^ That is magnificent, like some sort of Yale padlock blindness.

That is the default locking method of many, many people in my 'hood.

my cousins did that,i found that, i shouted at them for doing that.

A woman leant her fully loaded Brompton against the wall by the entrance to the mini Waitrose in King's Cross station and walked inside to do her shopping in front of me. I persuaded her that leaving an unlocked bike on the concourse wasn't a good idea and she took it into the shop with her. Must have been a yokel up from the country, not used to London ways.

This hasn't moved from its current location outside my work for about a month. Finally decided to email Westminster council about getting it removed and it was only after taking the photo that I realised the shit cable doesn't even go through the shit frame.

Before it was abandoned I'd seen the owner coming and going a couple of times so was feeling slightly guilty that she might eventually turn up to find it gone. After noticing the state of the locking I feel no more guilt.

She obviously hasn't ever met Chris.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc6J-YlncIU

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This was in the racks at Euston, Saturday lunchtime. Good chance it was no longer there by the evening.

D-Lock is the only one on the bike and all it is doing is locking front wheel to frame.

^Those racks are utterly useless though. I don't consider the little flip up loop to be worth locking to so you really need a long cable or chain to secure the frame and then another lock per wheel to secure them.