Ways not to lock your bike

As has been discussed before, rims were made of steel back in the good old days (where Sheldon Brown lived) and, so, they were tougher.

I knew Sheldon wouldn't be wrong.

Just popped in to Cycle Surgery, chained my bike to the gf's and left it just inside the door where the staff told me to put it.
Came back to find them both gone, guts went through my a$$, ran outside to see if I could see anyone struggling with two bikes, grabbed a member of staff and shouted at him that there were two bikes right here! He pointed behind me to where he had moved the bikes out the way.
My first taste of what it's like to have your bike stolen, if only briefly.
Farkin horrible.
I looked like a right twat also.

That whole post could have been kept to simply the last 3 lines, without quoting everyone else who has ever mentioned locks on this thread.

And since you wish to pursue this train of thinking.......

Your post would have been better if it had no input at all.

I was not normally going to post in a joke thread - the ongoing joke being how stupidly some people locks their bikes up. But upon seeing the Sheldon Method being advised as a useful security method for London.....I interjected.

Just bung the lock through the seatstays. Easy.

Though Balki is the funniest lady on this forum, her advice is serious, and 100% recommended.

***winky, smiley

***Interestingly, this is my 5,000th post.

locking fail claim fail

It's a fail. Maybe it's impossible to remove the rear wheel, but a less bright thief will go for it.
If the theft fails, they'd vandalise the bike in anger.

I've seen many bikes locked with this method vandalised in Amsterdam and Berlin.
Thickos think at first that it will be an easy target, undo the rear wheel and then get agitated.

Hi GA2G, I knew you'd pop by :-)

That picture is precisely how I usually lock my bike, although the presence of a heavy bike on the other side is not always feasible :-)

I am mindful of the ability to get a hack saw in there, but the use of bolt croppers isn't really impeded in the picture above.

For me, the security of carrying larger locks is balanced against not carrying a bag on my back whenever I ride. Having said that, I think that I will get a larger U lock to put in the bag when I am taking one.

was round the back of my college in Notting Hill the other day, and saw this abomination of an attempt by someone to lock up their bike...

that one is real extreme

It's a garrote. The owner left it as a warning for the potential thief.

Perhaps I will leave* that *attached to my bike?

was round the back of my college in Notting Hill the other day, and saw this abomination of an attempt by someone to lock up their bike...

Sheldon method == safe as houses.

;-)

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..

Can someone please tell me which is the 'main' lock thread? I have a lock query and I was hoping to pick the brains of our resident lock Nazis.

Thanks :-)

http://www.lfgss.com/thread17938.html

This one i would assume^

ha! took this picture and thought to post it here, but Frankie_J done it for me a few posts ago.

Got the spok that time, at least.

I didn't go back to check today, but... same bike, ^^ same place, different fail. (I'm not staging this to post here.)

Utter Moron!

Mechamorgan, DPF, don't ever go to places like Switzerland and Denmark. It's comedy lock fiesta over there.

Less bike theft than here. I should know, I'm from Switzerland!

Just bung the lock through the seatstays. Easy.

yeah i never understand why everyone doesn't do this. getting a lock over seattube and rear wheel is a pain in the ass, but seat stays gets the frame and wheel (assuming you lock under the rim), with loads of room.

altho it's so easy i was paranoid for ages that it was somehow foiled. (closes eyes ahead of potential correction)

I saw a classic tonight at the regent - to whomever rides that pista with the interesting stem, I could have nibbled through the chain and the 20p combination lock, particularly when you chose to 'hide' it behind a telephone junction box. Outside some flats where Omarlittle had his abus chopped through.

From porn thread.

but? but? .... wtf?????

When there is clearly an upright pole right next to the bike.............speechless

since they are all on the same fence (i think)
and it resembles to the pics i saw on prolly s blog: im saying garage-sale and these are up for display, just locked for the quick snatch & run thief..

I hope.

Spotted this in Hoxton last night. It's not an actual Colnago, which is just as well, considering the choice of lock.

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