Ways not to lock your bike

it's on a quick release work out where the school is and it's yours, once you have taken the seat someone else can help themselves to the rest of it.

May as well leave the lock where it is so the owner realises the error of his ways.

Just spotted this on bishopsgate...

Sorry about the poor quality only had my phone.

^That is wonderful. Love that

That is an awesome seat.

Have it mate. It's yours

I'm pretty sure that's in the top don'ts on locking your bike...

I'm pretty sure that's in the top don'ts on locking your bike...

Wow just passed the same spot and there's a cyclist and two pedestrians standing and discussing.
I've also just realised it's 50 metres from a police station.

^ yeah I saw that too, don't understand how it's staying up though, is the mini evo taped to the top? I like to think the sign says "ways not to lock your bike"

^^the yellow n black bit is plastic sheeting to stop rain getting inside the lamp post. looks like some teef has had a crack at lifting the whole bike over the top of te post n got it jammed??

Has it ever occur to you that it might be the work of a bike theft trying to lift the bike off but failed?

^^the yellow n black bit is plastic sheeting to stop rain getting inside the lamp post. looks like some teef has had a crack at lifting the whole bike over the top of te post n got it jammed??

Has it ever occur to you that it might be the work of a bike theft trying to lift the bike off but failed?

it certainly occured to someone..

i love the way the guy in that video just starts to really slap that brooks saddle.

As for the Sheldon method being 'stupid', quite the courtesy it's not, it's quick and easy to do, and even though it's entirely possible to cut the rims to take the bike, there's a better way to do it;

When you do this, you must fill in any kind of gap, the more gap you filled in, the less room/movement there is, if there's room to put your crank in, do it, it may take a bit of time figuring and adjusting the bike to make it fit, but once you done it, it's pretty impossible to remove.

As for the Sheldon method being 'stupid', quite the courtesy it's not, it's quick and easy to do, and even though it's entirely possible to cut the rims to take the bike, there's a better way to do it;

When you do this, you must fill in any kind of gap, the more gap you filled in, the less room/movement there is, if there's room to put your crank in, do it, it may take a bit of time figuring and adjusting the bike to make it fit, but once you done it, it's pretty impossible to remove.

thats how i do mine, high five

I didn't know you'd ever owned a Bob Jackson, Ed.

I'm liking the crank arm tuck in there! I usually park at the stands that ahve the cross braces and put my driveside pedal voer the top, so you can't spin the cranks once its locked. The crank arm tuck looks like a good move tho!

it's pretty impossible to remove.

ORLY?

Smart though, will use it. Nice one Ed.

@ed: what you have pictured there is not the Sheldon method, since you are including the frame. Which is possible because you are using a FAHG and a Sheffield stand, not an evo mini and a sign post pole, which is a smaller lock and bigger pole.

Evo mini + rim and tyre + signpost pole leaves no space for crank or tube or anything.

Evo mini + rim and tyre + Sheffield stand allows you to include a seat stay, which is nice.

I now prefer Sheffield stands, for this very reason, although I worry about how cuttable they are?

Here's the bike parking facilities outside my office...

http://ramton.ie/bikepark.jpg

Spotted this over the weekend, not exactly a desirable bike but still a locking fail.

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Got a photo of one of those single speed bikes from Decachlon on lamppost with a cable lock round the seat post.

I spoke a girl in Brighton locking her landrover mountain bike up in a similar fashion and her reply to me was its really uncomfortable bike anyway so its insured and I'll get another one.

Great attitude in my opinion

nice.
union street, apparently.

I now prefer Sheffield stands, for this very reason, although I worry about how cuttable they are?

Apparently it depends on which council it is. Some comply to recommendations, others cut corners.

Apparently it depends on which council it is. Some comply to recommendations, others cut corners.

Puntastic!

Some friends and I got a stationary exercise bike from a skip and locked it up on some bike racks in the city centre in York. It was there for well over a year.

Well, I found it funny anyway.

when i was a student we found ourselves with a really dodgy old excercise bike in the hallway of the building; my friends insisted they could find a good use for it, and they took it away. next day i walked past the uni gym on my way to class and found they'd locked it to the bikeracks outside alongside all the ridiculous mountainbikes.

i wonder what the gym staff thought.

Spotted this over the weekend, not exactly a desirable bike but still a locking fail.

It looks like bike is actually ready to free itself.