Ways not to lock your bike

It's not exactly epic but it's a bit silly that the second D wasn't used on the front wheel / down tube. Maybe they lost the key and ride around with it still attached like that.

It's silly to leave that much room between the lock, the bike and what you're locking to as it means a potential the if can get leverage.

You'll often see bikes knocking about with dents in the top tube from where people have tried to break the lock by twisting the whole bike.

That's really hard to read, sorry about that :/

Some police services have advice how to lock your bike on their website. You should point out that the preferred methods - according to police advice - are hard to do on the new bike racks.

So a developer is building some apartments behind my office, and as part of the deal with the council, is renovating the public square where I currently lock my bike. I had a look at the plans the other day, and the racks they're planning to install look terrible - big waist high square sections that look impossible to get a d lock around.

This is the document that's been uploaded on the council website: http://planningonline.bristol.gov.uk/online-applications/files/51F24719BD27DBB4D2B322303AEA6605/pdf/13_01858_COND-CYCLE_PARKING_STREETLIFE-1069833.pdf

And another image can be seen in the manufacturers brochure, here: http://www.streetlife.nl/brochure_straatmeubilair/-/-/en

I have the email of the planning official in charge of this case, and plan on emailing him to tell him what a bad idea these are and how they should just install conventional Sheffield racks as they allow safe double locking using a d lock. My question to you, the LFGSS, is what else, if anything should I include to back up my case?

You could suggest adding an A1/A0-sized sign next to the racks explaining proper locking technique? Best I've seen round Manchester is an A5-sized infographic which only seemed to make sense if you already understood the technique.

sorry if reep

http://www.streetlife.nl/brochure_straatmeubilair/-/-/en

Street life-Randy Crawford - YouTube

Thanks jmiddleton and Emyr. I sent him a lengthy email explaining why they were a bad idea in laymans terms, along with a link to the immobilise locking advice webpage. I also suggested the info-graphic idea, that's a good one.

like a boss.

How?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lock8/lock8-the-worlds-first-smart-bike-lock

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slightly disingenuous name - 'the World's First Smart Bike Lock' - given that the Halo was three years earlier!

Dont know what youre seeing wrong with this one... its perfectly well locked

It's not exactly epic but it's a bit silly that the second D wasn't used on the front wheel / down tube.

this^

both found in one day...only in covent garden

^ Bungee Bike?

Reminds me of when we managed to get 5 on a fence with 2 locks or something daft.

^ Those were the days...

Classic Sandbar bike tree

Spotted in North London. Had to pick that bike up and prop it against the rail.

Classic Sandbar bike tree

this^

it's like everyone who frequents sandbar chipped in for 3 locks between all of them.

Brixton. Oh so close... or maybe not. What the photo does not show is the shortness of the parking sign with not much on top. Must frame things better.

Let's face it, Apollo doesn't have a clue how to lock his bike.

Saw this today...poor effort

I have to call myself out for this - went to the shops, left the bike like this outside finchley road station. Not entirely sure what I was thinking about at the time, but I'm lucky to have got away with it...

^^ wow...you are lucky you still have it!