Ways not to lock your bike

Claiming "Theft proof" is a bit ambitious...

The "quick and easy solution" if you want your bike posted in this thread.

this would be more than plentiful in other country, just not in cities like London.

Bike next to mine at work was locked with one of these:

literally string?

^^ Many people new to cycling are already freaked out at the cost of a new bike, having often not thought about it since they were children, so expecting 'toy' prices.

Having expected to pay £200, then finding they have to spend £4-500, they then begrudge spending another £50 on a lock.

So they buy one of those feeble bits of string.

When I visit my grandparents in Switzerland I use his bike and something like this is more than sufficient.

Grandfather gets annoyed with me when I take the car keys out the ignition, 'cause he doesn't like looking for them in morning! he he

Those locks are actually really good. about a year ago two bikes got taken out of my garden. they broke all the normal locks and lifted them over the wall. then they set about trying to break those wheel locks but they couldn't. they were cosmetically wrecked but neither of them failed. the other locks the broke were fairly decent too.

oooh, the black mtb - look at the brake leaver position, probably to further deter them tiefs.

hah, and is there a motorola startek ziptied to the seatpost? to phone the bastards and make 'em bring it back?

ffs, i flew over the stolen bikes thread and read that these locks are still being used to lock up decent bikes. when will they check the locks threads here and else where and go and get something that help keep the bike rather then offering it up for grabs?!

Speaking from experience, one of these literally falls apart in about 3-4 seconds with an angle grinder....I was incredibly surprised and was expecting more of a fight from a 70 quid lock!! (before someone gets all uppity I wasn't really stealing a bike :)

Where I workthere are multiple bikes in a decent covered shelter howevere recently some have been stolen, one next to mine the other day had a really good quality lock D type on his bike but hadnt actually used it! its amazingthat they wouldnt take 30 seconds to lock it but have carried that heavy lock woth them. whats the point!

so very much fail.

^a create, maybe they want to lose it.

isnt that on teh single speed side???
with only one brake.
he cant skid regardless

And with an Apollo saddle...just when you thought it couldn't get any worse.

isnt that on teh single speed side???
with only one brake.
he cant skid regardless

there's a cheeky little brake poking out the front

whooops completely ignore that. why isn't there a delete post button?

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just so you know, those bollards were liftable and less than 5 metres away there was a large bike rack area.

People do seem to live in there own magical little world.
Is there a thread with "How to look you bike up"?

"How to look you bike up"?

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just so you know, those bollards were liftable and less than 5 metres away there was a large bike rack area.

There were plastic barriers like that on part of Euston Road a while back, right outside a building I used to deliver to on a regular basis.

Despite there being bike racks a bit further down the pavement, these things were right outside the door of the building so I'd frequently lock up to them. Sometime's it's just quicker... albeit only slightly.

haha yeah that'd be fine if you were dropping something off for two minutes but that looked like it was there for the long haul.

also, isn't that the LOOK that was on every forum classifieds from here to paris for 150quid?

It's certainly one of those frames.

right outside a building I used to deliver to on a regular basis.

for 5 days?

What?

Loser