Ways not to lock your bike

for some reason that reminds me of teabagging.

Dirty man.

for some reason that reminds me of teabagging.

+1

I think it's the weightiness.

I will probably regret asking, but what memories of teabagging would those be?

+1

I think it's the weightiness.

I will probably regret asking, but what memories of teabagging would those be?

I should add, this is probably not the same incident as the chap above...

think this beauty is worthy of this thread... on the old kent road would you believe it

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6552509/2012-04-06%2013.34.34.jpg

fuck me, look at that lamp-post !

I think its suppose to be that anti graffiti surface, pretty weird, waste of our money to.

Not anti-graffiti as such; it's to stop posters being slathered all over it.

and then fly-posters invented gaffa tape

pretty sure its anti-climb stuff.

My girlfriend just texted me to say she managed to lock her bike to someone else's for most of the day while she was in the library. Luckily he was nice about it, rather than being angry, or using the forum's suggested method of demanding she sleep with him.

That's what she told you...

   ^  I used to live in York and there was an amount of freelocking going on,  especially around the uni. Maybe it's got worse since I left about a  year ago.

My girlfriend now lives in Oxford and the majority of bikes there are freelocked or just not locked at all - some stunningly nice ones too; I saw a 1950s French town bike just leaning against a wall, all day, untouched. Presumably these are the same cyclists who ride without lights and don't indicate or shoulder-check, but inexplicably wear a helmet (I once sat on Magdalen Bridge and counted the cyclists without a pair of working lights - more than half of them).

Mind you, any bike left unlocked/freelocked/cable-locked in Oxford overnight will get stolen.
Having come from South London where I would often triple lock my bike (even if just stopping somewhere quickly) I cant even explain how weird it is to go to Oxford and see hundreds of unlocked bikes in one afternoon.

My friends would go to eat and just leave their bikes on the wall outside and then they'd look at me weird when I kept badgering them to lock thier bikes or when I would take ages locking mine.

One thing both cities have in common is that at both Ox and Cam rail stations there are nearly like a 1000 bikes in the bike racks outside. Mostly abandoned. some abandoned for the summer break. The one at oxford station is crazy. Some weren't even locked I noticed. Brilliant deception

just spotted this artwork in east london

Could someone with graphix talent design a spoke-card that says GOOD WORK! and also has a link to this thread?

^ this is a great idea..

Allow me to suggest that it might not be a great idea to reveal the location of the bikes which appear on this thread.
Whilst the owner shouldn't be surprised if they get half-inched, we don't want this thread to be a tea leaves' shopping list, do we?

Allow me to suggest that it might not be a great idea to reveal the location of the bikes which appear on this thread.
Whilst the owner shouldn't be surprised if they get half-inched, we don't want this thread to be a tea leaves' shopping list, do we?

fixed, you're actually right

top work

Repped!

genius.

repreprep.

It's got "Wanksy" written all over it.