Ways not to lock your bike

ways not to park your car

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Not sure if this even belongs in this thread as its not actually locked per say. Fair enough as who would want to nick it anyway?

This pug however was in a prime nicking spot. snip snip...

also slack chain etc. etc.

^foot retention fail or back brake fail

Both.

1st if fg, 2nd if ss

Still both IMO.

Exemplary stuff on Essex Road this morning.

Luuuuube!!!! I might start guerilla lubing chains like that. Poor chain!

last 2 bikes I bought had chains like that. I think it becomes slower and noisier until they give up and sell it on to 'some other mug'. I dont think they realise you can change parts

On display outside of shoe store in Belgium (not sure of the relationship to shoes ("de unieke "shoe and more store"") with lots of pedestrian traffic - probably wouldn't last long in London (cheap cable lock on rope/queue barrier) ...

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Belgians dont steal things.

...Just children.

O ooh!

Wj prince, where is the locking fail? The blue bike could have done better with that chain (see what I did there?) but the spesh is doing as well as you can with one d lock, no?

...Just children.

O ooh!

repped !

Ways not to lock your children thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I see so many bikes attached to lamp posts lying on the floor after being knocked over

Last week in Oxford I saw a bike lying in the road, attached to the lamp-post by only the rear rim, front wheel had evidently been run over.

Mind you, I'm never surprised at what I see Oxford cyclists do. Undertake a lorry, you say...

You wouldn't nick it but even so!

d-lock through the spokes. Genious at work.

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^stopped the wheel being nicked though.

I saw an orange Moulton yesterday on holloway road locked with one of those measly thin shoelace locks. It was upsetting to say the least

Hal Grades Your Locks - YouTube

My fucking word... what a tool. Gave that second A+ to a lock job where the quick release mtb wheel was easy pickings. Yeah, I'll pay close attention to what you say now..

Last week in Oxford I saw a bike lying in the road, attached to the lamp-post by only the rear rim, front wheel had evidently been run over.

Mind you, I'm never surprised at what I see Oxford cyclists do. Undertake a lorry, you say...
I have to deal with it every day, there are a lot of tools on wheels here, le sigh.

equall amounts of non tools.

saves face

University: great minds at work

If you're going to have the kind of ostentatious thief-magnet bike (that admittedly looks quite fun), lock it up with more than a cable and a tiny padlock

All kinds of wrong:

Don't assume people can't be bothered to pinch rear-wheels because they're 'a bit more of a bother' compared to fronts.

I mean... Really?
Plus, saddle angle