So let's talk locks and security

2 Krypto mini D's. Easy enough to carry around, plenty of locking options, just never leave a bike locked up where you cant see it or get to it within 30 seconds to check it. Never leave a bike worth more than £300 locked up outside for more than an hour. If you want to leave you bike outside a pub or club, ALMAX chain + 2 mini D's and remove everything from it that an allen key or adjustable spanner will allow. Then try getting into the club with your seatpost/saddle combo and your drops. you will net be let in and you'll have to cycle home to swap for your beater, which you don't mind getting nicked, keyed or kicked in, now you get into the party, but - the DJ whose set you wanted to see will have finished, all the drugs will be gone and all the pretty girls will have paired off with non bike riding people who smell better than you anyway... at least you have your bike.

After the boring practical bit, this response got better and better. Clubs are shit anyway. Hugs not drugs.

Still can't bring myself to get a beater. But I don't go anywhere where my bike's not welcome either inside or very very close by.

Just been hearing this annoying story about a feller(a pal's father in law) who is a rather rareified gent. He rides his beloved Brompton (he is a folder nut, got loads of 'em) to a gymnasium. The gym' have asked him not to bring his (folded) Brompton in. WHAT'S THE FUCKING POINT OF A BROMPTON? Arseholes. Apparently they think it looks dirty or ugly or something, lowering the tone of a Nice Gym To Which People Drive Massive Cars, In Order To Get Fit. Then they changed tack and started telling him it's because of H&S fire risk blah fucking blah.

Oh, sorry, back to the flaming.