Names and faces to bikes

+1, it's the thinking-man's locking technique.

I hang my head in unwashed shame.

I'm never going to get the hang of this cycling business am I?

:)

except he hasn't secured the frame. FAIL
if you had some low profile rims, you wouldn't have that problem matey ;-)

except he hasn't secured the frame. FAIL
if you had some low profile rims, you wouldn't have that problem matey ;-)

has you not read the previous few comment above you at all?

aleksi... look, and think about it again.

EDIT: Ed beat me to it.

I have thought about it...if you cut through the rear wheel, which is much easier than cutting through lets say...a frame or a lock. then you have everything but the rear wheel.

I have thought about it...if you cut through the rear wheel, which is much easier than cutting through lets say...a frame or a lock. then you have everything but the rear wheel.

how you gonna ride away?

To be honest, locking a bike up has several factors to consider. Firstly, no locking method is 100% secure, but the better the lock, the better your chances of keeping the bike.

Locks provide a deterent effect to casual criminals, and possibly to some more expereinced ones as well. Sheldon's method works at a practical level, but not as a visual and psychological deterent.

When a bike is seen, even from a distance, with a good lock going through the wheel AND around the seat-tube, it just looks like it will require more effort to steal. Vandals sometimes just yank a bike around the lock, and bend the chainstays. What a lark that is to the little inbred urchins. But it is obvious that it cannot be done to a bike that uses the seat-tube's width and strength as part of the locking mechanism.

Sheldon is right; a bike will not normally be stolen using his method. But I believe that deterring the crime at all, will lessen chances of attempts at the crime, and in the resultant vandalism.

Just my

I have just re-read the guide so your right but it would be more secure around the frame as well

I have thought about it...if you cut through the rear wheel, which is much easier than cutting through lets say...a frame or a lock. then you have everything but the rear wheel.

actually it's fucking hard to, and I badly cut my hand during the process (I was using an old wheels to see how easy is it to cut, just so I can feel a bit confident about locking my bike up).

has you even heard of sheldon brown?

is he james browns brother?

I have just re-read the guide so your right but it would be more secure around the frame as well

has you not read the previous few comment above you at all?

;-)

how you gonna ride away?

flickwg, don't many bike thieves walk away with their newly aquired goods?

I remember someone starting a thread, and included photos, of a "carnival type" man, who was walking with a bike, and bolt-croppers.
It appeared that the man had recently liberated the bike, and was off with it to somewhere else.

i swear some1 could just undo the rear wheel with a spanner and then walk away with the rest of the bike? ok it would look obvious but i have seen it done before....

Yawn

no unless you locked the back wheel outside of the rear trinagle

i swear some1 could just undo the rear wheel with a spanner and then walk away with the rest of the bike? ok it would look obvious but i have seen it done before....

You're right - they could actually walk away with the bike even without cutting through the wheel. They could simply squash the wheel into an elongated oval shape then pass it through the rear triangle of the frame, leaving the wheel attached to the lock and the frame completely free.

yeah, squash a wheel. good one.

Fuck all that bollocks.
I'll have the front and stem/bars in 1min.

Yoink.

is that a kryptonite mini? I got one the other week, I can barely lock it to anything, just abouts fits around H+Son and frame let alone anything else. I have to carry a chain too. massive lock fail.

*Lessons learned: don't post a picture of your bike locked up. You'll never please everyone.*

what you see is what you get dude, if you buy a 'mini' lock then dont expect it to fit around your deep wheel, frame and a lampost?

My daily ride in it's incredible ugly winter outfit.. trying to hide behind a sign post.

Love it!...A proper Hack!
Those bars don't look all that comfy?

If that bike had a voice,
it would most defiantly Grunt.

grunt and give off a slight whiff of brut mixed with cheap polish lager