Ways not to lock your bike

Turns it into an old school straight post, so not completely worthless.
edit - depending on diameter

looking at the quality of the other components, it's probably just a cheap 2 part bonded post and the head has detached.

Maybe it had a nice massive gel seat on it?

it's probably just a cheap 2 part bonded post and the head has detached.

That was my first thought.

There’s no hope really is there¿

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Very ambiguous Sheffield stands seen in Penge. Not sure if cycle parking or traffic calming.

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Any bikes locked to those are guaranteed to get fucked up. I reckon contractors put in the wrong hardware. Well I hope so, that cannot be bike parking.

I reckon contractors put in the wrong hardware.

Detailed plans: install random cycle shit here

You'd probably struggle to get a disability trike through those gaps, or a double-wide buggy. Hopefully they'll get removed/sorted pretty quickly.

Behind the Sainsbury's? Got to be traffic calming surely?

Royston field, they have them at both entrances to the park.

New broad street

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Seen at the local supermarket

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Some people might be lazy enough to “save” their spot at the bike rack by leaving the lock there instead of taking it home.

you mean you can't see it?
#theemperorsnewbike

Many bikes only locked by the front wheel.
Many front wheels not locked.

Profit....literally a thief will find a bike where only front wheel locked, grab it, keep walking until they find the right wheel. Success very easily. Sad really as replacing just an average hybrid disc front wheel and tyre on a carrera with new average stuff is gonna be a £100

I used to do a DIY 200k Audax up to Cambridge and back (from London) and sometimes timed it to watch Cambridge United at the half way point before cycling home (visit nearby Tescos for some refreshments, sit and eat them during the game, cycle home). I didn't want to lug heavy locks all the way up and back home each time so I bought two good quality locks in Cambridge and left them on a fence near the ground.

They were there for more than 5 years. You could see them on google maps in some years: https://maps.app.goo.gl/FG249sm4qvQm1PV67

Eventually worked out I wasn't going to need them as I wasn't doing as much Audaxing and collected them, they're now in use for my wife's and daughter's bikes. They work fine despite being left out in all weathers for years and years - just needed a bit of WD40 to loosen things up.

The flip side of that is that Waitrose in Greenwich used to be on my 30 mile round trip commute.
I lost two small orange Kryptonites there to someone who decided that they rendered their bike stands untidy. Or something.

Conversly I used to leave my lock outside where I used to work. Bit it of months, then somebody super glued the keyhole, I had to go and buy another lock, left that there overnight and it got glued again. I’m guessing they thought I’d chance leaving the bike unlocked?

I'm struggling to see the point of someone doing that. Banking on you leaving your bike unlocked strikes me as a bit of a (very) long shot . More in the realm of wanton vandalism in my book. Occurring twice is a bit odd thobut.

Yeah but it's a scattergun approach. One tube of superglue can do tens/hundreds of locks and you only need one person to be in enough of a rush to either leave it unlocked or, more likely, use a flimsy temporary lock whilst they sort it out.

Fair point. One I hadn't considered.

Some people might be lazy enough to “save” their spot at the bike rack by leaving the lock there instead of taking it home.

Yeah, that could be it - as @Greenbank described above?
I'll be passing this spot more often in the coming weeks and will see if there's ever a bike locked there with that lock..

To be honest my first thought was they just cut the frame so they can take the bike for the expensive parts..

watched my mate do this

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Saw this in Covent Garden yesterday.
Presume there was a bike attached.

I guess it’s a victory for the little lock?

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