Ways not to lock your bike

Ha! In case you are serious I'm saying the person who locked up near you and then complained when you moved their bike was crazy.

Of course I am serious...

Seriously not being serious...

On a serious note, I couldn't help but think is it a new and definitely epically failed way of plotting to steal a bike? Like if I overlap my bike with yours, maybe you wouldn't be bothered to unlock yours until I move mine...

I don't know if I am being serious with I just said...

almost impossible to see lock - it's a combination lock with a very thin cable - pair of scissors would liberate that!

Ha! Saw this at work on Thursday and came to post here. Super shit lock

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Is that one of those alarm ones that squeals when the cable's cut?

#stillshitlocking

you just get unlucky, more times theives can just bolt cut the fuck through a lock anyway, i rarely lock mine up

You need to head over to the locks that work thread:
https://www.lfgss.com/thread17938.html

two good locks

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^^^ Ha ha I was in Amersham on Saturday and all the bikes there were locked with silly thin locks like that

This is some of my mates from the Bicycle Music Festival showing what to do when you find your stolen bike
http://youtu.be/CpOEDItBwSs

Sounds more like an issue of crazy. Not respect.

Sorry, It's a mild in-house joke. "Respeck" is a pronunciation of respect which refers to the idiots who are likely to get violent over perceived incursions into some imagined personal space - like getting too near to their car, looking at their missus or moving their pint. I don't think it is a respect issue, they do (and in this case did).

Spotted in Manchester today.

Also spotted: two different pairs of bike thieves eyeing it up whilst I was sat waiting for my gf.

How do you know they were thieves and not "on here" thinking of the badly locked bike thread?

Should have taken pics of the thieves, then legged it.

does it count as badly locked, if it hasn't been locked at all? or am I just missing something?

does it count as badly locked, if it hasn't been locked at all? or am I just missing something?

It's locked, but just by the top tube.

Look behind the left hand grip (chunky silvery coloured chain wrapped round twice).

How do you know they were thieves and not "on here" thinking of the badly locked bike thread?

I stereotyped.

Scallies on shit bikes staring specifically at the lock and doing a few passes before spotting me about to unlock mine and casually cycling away.

Seen this one a few different times and it's always locked in the same way.

Somehow this guy still hasn't had this stolen as I've seen it locked here in exactly the same way a coupla times over the last month.

Leave a note, or perhaps a a proper lock and note or just not bother?

I think this goes here.

What utter nonsense.

I had to make a strong effort not to write something uselessly sarcastic about this.
Essentially, I don't think this is right.

No, they have this power. It was one of the arguments the LCC used against attempts to introduce powers of instant removal of bikes in consecutive London Local Authorities/TfL Bills:

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/londonlocalauthoritiesandtransportforlondonno2hl.html

Counsel for the LCC argued that these powers were perfectly adequate for dealing with obstructions of the footway if a bike is clearly abandoned, and that draconian powers would not be needed and would be prone to abuse.

Brighton does this too. Any bikes left for too long get removed and sent to a charity to be re-furbed and sold on.

Public bike stands aren't there for long term storage.

I am wondering if the enforcement team have laminators and printers in their vehicles or do they have to go back to the office to do it?

They don't do that in cambridge... We have been overrun with abandoned bikes for years. Until the duke and duchess visited that is, as the council thought the best way to celebrate cambridge being the cycling capital of Britain was by not allowing anybody to lock their bikes up during the visit and removing those that were.

This was gone a couple of hours later

WTF is up with those pedals?

Those are meant for high heels and cowboy boots.

Kinda interesting video

Not really a locking fail...determined thieves I guess?

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Yesterday I saw an elaborately locked bike. Turned upside down, front and rear wheels locked. But they neglected to actually attach it to the stand. Very puzzling.