Ways not to lock your bike

Durrr,

Though I have been guilty..

Left a note on this one as I had just bought a very similar one for my girlfriend and I'm completely in love with it - the note read something along the lines of - "Your bike isn't securely locked. You need to make sure that you pass the lock through the bicycle frame. Please don't have your beautiful bike stolen xxxx"

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Left a note on this one as I had just bought a very similar one for my girlfriend and I'm completely in love with it - the note read something along the lines of - "Your bike isn't securely locked. You need to make sure that you pass the lock through the bicycle frame. Please don't have your beautiful bike stolen xxxx"

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NW6 or around there by any chance?

bethnal green - just near BLB but the note may not have been found right away - why do you ask? not your bike is it?

NW6 or around there by any chance?

One from Dalston at the weekend

brilliant i will post some pictures of our bike store at work...there are some fantastic examples like the man who locls his seat post....thats right takes his D lock out of his bag then locks it round his seat post to nothing, while the bike is in a cycle rack...quality!!

Police bike with liquorice lock, not locked at the time but looks like an easy job to pinch. Photo taken at the skyride.

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Left a note on this one as I had just bought a very similar one for my girlfriend and I'm completely in love with it - the note read something along the lines of - "Your bike isn't securely locked. You need to make sure that you pass the lock through the bicycle frame. Please don't have your beautiful bike stolen xxxx"

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[URL]http://i53.tinypic.com/nby8ut.jpg

Especially with the QR seatpost bolt - they wouldn't even need an alan key...

I'm just back from the Hebrides, and as a paranoid Londoner with big locks, Oban is a nightmare. People just dump their bikes in crappy front-wheel racks with their £££ Ortlieb panniers still on, and then think 'hey, I need another book for my holiday' and head off to Waterstone's. We thought we'd do the same (borrowed crappy MTBs, so when in Rome), but I only got about 10 paces round the corner when I had to go back and put some kryptos on just to make sure.

http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=874&pictureid=8961

You'd have to be a bit of a nutter to nick a copper's bike though.

I'd have it, no doubt.

spotted this a while back outside crystal palace sports centre. the bike locking facilities there are terrible, but no excuse for this.

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sorry that image is massive and it won't appear the right way up. very odd.

That would be my bike then, after almost 2 days in London. Not exactly how I left it...

... the rear 'wheel' is particularly interesting

I'm in berlin now, and it makes me sad to think of this thread, seeing that most people here have very little problems with just locking the wheels quickly and go into a shop etc. Maybe not for an expensive racer, but for normal bikes for sure.
Feels like it should always be that way. So much wrong about how in the UK cycling comes with all these hassles.

Are you trying to say that bikes don't get nicked in Germany? I lived in Leipzig for two years (which is a very peaceful town by any standard) and loads of people's bikes got stolen, so I find that hard to believe. Perhaps it's just that there's so many more bikes in Berlin than in London - in a target-rich environment there's always likely to be a bike nearby that's easier to nick than yours.

Are you trying to say that bikes don't get nicked in Germany? I lived in Leipzig for two years (which is a very peaceful town by any standard) and loads of people's bikes got stolen, so I find that hard to believe. Perhaps it's just that there's so many more bikes in Berlin than in London - in a target-rich environment there's always likely to be a bike nearby that's easier to nick than yours.

+1
I was in Berlin for about 4 days and my bike got nicked, and it was the shittest piece of crap polo bike ever!

I can't believe how much I have learned from this thread. Seriously. I need a new lock...

Left a note on this one as I had just bought a very similar one for my girlfriend and I'm completely in love with it - the note read something along the lines of - "Your bike isn't securely locked. You need to make sure that you pass the lock through the bicycle frame. Please don't have your beautiful bike stolen xxxx"

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[URL]http://i53.tinypic.com/nby8ut.jpg

You need to add something to end of the note for mystique.

This would work better:

"Your bike isn't securely locked.
You need to make sure that you pass the lock through the bicycle frame.
Please don't have your beautiful bike stolen"

Ride safe, a friend. xxx

That would be my bike then, after almost 2 days in London. Not exactly how I left it...

... the rear 'wheel' is particularly interesting

blimey, least it's still there I guess. They've tried to cut through it haven't they?

You'd have to be a bit of a nutter to nick a copper's bike though.

There are some for whom that would be an irresistible target.

blimey, least it's still there I guess. They've tried to cut through it haven't they?

So far as I can tell they just buckled it using the lock, with the bike as lever.

Didn't do them any good since the lock went through the frame, but it snapped the rim clean in half.

Can't tell if it was mindless vandalism or attempted theft - if the latter, they certainly didn't think their strategy through...maybe they were thinking:

1. See bike
   
2. Break wheel
   
3. ?????
   
4. Profit
   

There are some great pictures here, love them.

It is heart warming that somebody cares, which reminds me that I WILL speak to that woman down the road that I have been meaning to advise over the last couple of months!!

Hmm...

http://bicycleshapedobject.wordpress.com/hall-of-shame/