Ways not to lock your bike

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.