Ways not to lock your bike

I wonder if that was the only lock he could get which colour matched his frame? Perhaps there's less crime in Birminghahaha what am I thinking.

I'm sure similar has been said before, but walking around Antwerp a while back was bizarre. Almost all the bikes, and there were loads, were locked up overnight with cable locks, often only to themselves. Not just old city bikes either, shiny new carbon fibre racers too.

yes lol.
im from Antwerp and had never properly locked a bike in my life.
But getting a few bikes (badly locked beaters thank god) knicked and reading this forum made me paranoid and now i'm one of the only Belgians with a fahg mini and friends mock me for the lock-over-kill..

and only now i realise how poorly bikes are locked around here, srsly any UK bike thief would feel like a kid in a candy store here..