Ways not to lock your bike

This, although this bike shed has a bunch of unlocked bikes.

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But well secured footwear.

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Not sure if it qualifies as locking but this made me chuckle... The dog was totally chilled when I unlocked my bike right next to him....

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With a chain that resembles a shoe lace and a Pure Gym padlock.

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How not to lock your dog >>>

That is awesome... Might get a staffie just for bike guarding duties :)

Friend of mine locked up his brand new bike outside University one evening, problem being that his d-lock went wheel to bike stand and used a cable around the frame. To his amazement he wondered why his front wheel was the only thing left a couple of hours later.

Luckily for him, having been a complete tool, a girl who worked at the university had caught the guy in the act so when he went back into the university they had has bike safe and sound behind the counter.

Luckiest git I know, I gave him a clip round the ear for such shoddy locking up.

is this legit? (given the available lock and cable). cable is pretty tight so I doubt there would have been enough give to remove the 440mm seatpost.

Its reasonable, but weight and security wise it would be better to use two mini D locks.

CSB alert - I've been using one of those small light cables to lock my front wheel to the frame. It's only a £50 quid shimano wheel so not worth carrying around a Mini Evo or whatever. It's a fairly skinny cable but nothing like as spaghetti-like as some you see around. Yesterday the key snapped in the lock so I had to cut it - got out my rusty old junior hacksaw, expecting it to take half an hour or something. It literally took 30 seconds - straight through the plastic and inside was only 20 strands of braided wire. Could not believe how easy it was to cut through.

That front brake? 2 Calipers on one wheel? Explain me!

You need two brakes. You can't put them on the rear wheels, so...

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Only the front wheel is braked, unless there is a form of coaster brake in the rear axle.

So as a bicycle needs 2 independant brakes to be road legal and a double front is easy to sort out and a cheap conversion or it may have been built that way.
Drum brakes and coaster brakes need a torque arm anchored normally to the chainstay which is a bit awkward to do and the frames tend to be designed around a brake system.
Discs would be good, but again the caliper mount needs fitting, and cost of hubs and wheel rebuilds.
Good chance of doing stoppie with dual v's up front, it's for the tricks :)

Aaaahhh! I see. No inboard disc brake option ala Jaguar Xj6? Dang!

So as a bicycle needs 2 independant brakes to be road legal

Dang pt2! Back in the mid 70's I'm sure my Dad reckoned that scraping my Plimsolls along the ground and shouting "AAAAaaarrrrrrrrrrrgh!" constituted as a brake system as I only had one brake on the converted Chopper I was riding at the time! :)

Need to have a brake system working on two independent wheels. A fixed wheel counts as a brake system.

with a saddle height over 635 mm to have two independent braking systems, with one acting on the front wheel(s) and one on the rear".

got out my rusty old junior hacksaw...literally took 30 seconds ...Could not believe how easy it was to cut through.

You'd have been through it in 5 if you used cable cutters.

How I know, lots of customers come into shop and ask me to remove cable lock they have lost key for after tangling around stem, seatpost etc.

Was locking up at St Pancras the other day and saw this free bike to be taken away.

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today i saw one of these cables on the floor by some bike stands in Balham, cut in half and still wrapped around the decent Krypto D lock that somebody had clearly failed to lock around their bike :'(

I had to call in at a pub for a sheet, and I didn't know whether I'd ever see the bike again, so I took this photo. At the start of the ride I had a 4' Kryptoflex cable (last seen at Barton upon Humber Tesco). When I got back to the bike I noticed I'd left the Charmin Ultra on its mount.

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In Toronto, not London's Famous London, so a fair bit safer, I was just amused at the effort put in to something that doesn't work.

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I would be tempted to remove it from the railing and then refit wheel. Just to puzzle the owner. Or perhaps relock it to a completely different object ha!

move it down onto the lower bar they will be baffled but get the message if it's still there

In my research into the law if I remember correctly the letter of the law just says "two independent braking systems" the bit about different wheels has been inferred from independent, but never tested.