Ways not to lock your bike

Walked past that last week. Also took a photo. Much sadness.

Is that near London Bridge Station, by the Hospital?

Yup!

Surely you'd still take the wheels and locks home!?

Wasn't sure where to put this, old bill in Norwich just arrested a bloke for bike theft on the Haymarket, he was carrying this:

I'm obviously as useless a bike thief as clue guessed.
What's the deal?

Just a crap lock I guess?

Terrible lock, qr-skewer wheels unsecured. In a bike theft hotspot.

Is it actually locked to anything, can't clearly tell from the photo.

Bike also belongs in anti >>>>>>>

go past it everyday. best camo paintjob i've seen in ages.

No good in wet weather though. 5/10

Those bolt cutter look a bit overkill for that lock, could have just sneezed at it and it'd have broken.

There was a Haibike, probably £2.5-3k worth, locked up outside my work the other day with a similar lock.

Dumb AF!

But i had two d locks!

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It would be a very odd frame that could fit between those two wheels.

Looks like a hefty piece of kit. Would they get through a D lock?

I heard bike thieves used to use General Electric bolt croppers, dirty great massive things about four feet long, untold leverage, like a hot knife through butter.

But bolt croppers still not enough for the largest chains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDBRI3cgw1o

Angle grinders will always win eventually though...

Not even locked, just witnessed the owner take the front wheel off and go into the store.

When she came out I said she should lock it properly, her reasoning was that without the front wheel it's harder for a thief to run off with a bike.

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And they’d look pretty conspicuous. Not sure I’d try this method tbh.

Too heavy a chain to carry on a bicycle commute for some though.

Ah, the ol' shoe-lace lock through the quick-release wheel lockjob. Classic.

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I mean, there's a fence right there

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