Ways not to lock your bike

Ways not to go through with stealing somebody's front wheel

Ah.
I thought they were subject to same laws as cars which need two indep brakes on different wheels.

Real question is, what counts as a braking system?

The law specifies that direct drive (as in penny fathing or unicycle, cranks attached directly to wheel) is all the brakes you need. Otherwise you need two independent brakes, where a fixed wheel counts the same as a disc brake or rod brake.
You can get unicycles with hub gears and they come with two brakes on the same wheel (for obvious reasons).
I didn't check the definition of a brake, but imagine that's been tested!

Yep.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/1176/pdfs/uksi_19831176_en.pdf

TLDR:
Bikes need independent brakes on the front and rear wheels (fixed counts on the rear).
Trikes can have two brakes on the front wheel.

Just spotted in Manchester

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Spotted on the internet, not quite by the rules,
but the locking technique is ace. Two tubes engaged.

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Am I the only one who thinks it looks Photoshop.

Looks like it's floating.

Careful, yet careless...

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Ingenious, back wheel looks tacoed maybe an on the fly idea?

No idea. Not a one off, I've seen it like this on other days.

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lol

Calling myself out here. Went to a certain large supermarket in a less-than-salubrious area of Leith for some beers. Bike racks round the back but no CCTV and a guy cruising up and down the road on a kiddies MTB checking them out in a not-too-subtle way. I always look pick the shittiest, rustiest bike to double-lock to, just in case, since a lot of tea-leafs about and there's always one or two knocking about. I find an unloved old Carrera, drivetrain a fetching terracotta hue, semi-flat tyres, saddle belching foam like an overstuffed Ginster's, loom-band "securing" it to the stand. Lock through his frame and the stand, toddle off to buy stuff. I come out 5 minutes later to a rather perplexed yoot standing next to my bike and the Frankencarrera. "Sorry mate, is this your bike?" "Aye." "Thought it had been abandoned, let me free the beast." I unlock my bike and feign to do something on my phone while he unhitches his bike and pootles off, his cogs a-squeakin' and a-rattlin'.

TL;DR: Ride it like you recovered it from a canal. Or stole it. Or both.

Question now we have moved to a our new office which doesn't have secure bike racks, I'm using on street bike racks, what is the best way to lock a bike to it in order to deter thieves? Is there a certain part of the bike that it's best to use? Currently have the lock between the seatstay and toptube then to the bike rack, very little room to get a cutting tool in. Is there a better way?

Try and get the back wheel, seat-tube and stand in one lock and lock your front wheel to the frame with another if you think it's required. Something like this:

Try and fill the space in your primary lock. I can get the seat-tube, rear wheel, stand and crank into mine.

I car almost hear Barry shouting "Two good locks". RIP.

Could be a nice HHSMTB, shame about the liquorice bootlace keeping it safe

Mini d-lock that fits in your back pocket for the front, secondary lock. Preferably of a different manufacturer than your primary lock in case of lock pick vulnerabilities.

Buy this.

https://youtu.be/1pWYu8t5o4o?t=22s

Ha!

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Yeah that chap told me he uses six locks. Thought he was exaggerating.

I'd cut the pole and rob the locks for raw material. I guess the weight is a deterrent from lifting it over, that's one way of looking at it. Just pile on D locks till you immobilise the bike from sheer weight.