Ways not to lock your bike

   ^  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