Ways not to lock your bike

In their defence; those locking stands are shit - the only way to lock properly on them is to park sideways & block the whole lot with one bike (but that's still locking to a skinny bit of metal). Locking to the railing post behind would have been better but I assume the facilities manager would kick off.

Might be worth all requesting better stands?

out of shot there are plentiful normal bike stands, just for some reason there are a few of those shit ones.