University killed my lock

Like many, I leave a hefty D Lock at college locked to the bike racks to save me carrying to and fro. Today, I got in and they have killed and removed it. The bastards. It was a 70quid mini krypto fageddaboudit. The bastards.

Apologies if this post seems pointless, I just had to rant about it to someone. The bastards.

Write a letter to the uni and get your £70 back.

4-fux-ake! Thats the lock I'm saving my pennies to buy! And the uni just lops it off? Is that the 18mm one, or the 16mm? I felt sure that the 18mm would give unrivalled protection. Back to the drawing board.

Peeps, stop me before its too late. Does this mean I've got to do another bloody list? Nobody looks at them anyway. I'm wasted on this stupid planet. No-one loves lists like they should.

are they likely to do that (not to say its not worth trying) but I figured that since it is uni property they can do what they want. I was never sure of the legality of leaving locks around the place anyhow.

and then they will write one back saying sod off. Then write again. And again, until they give in.

Write a letter to the uni and get your £70 back.

yeah they should put some warning attached to the locks for a week like htey do with bikes.

Grande2G... They would have use an angle grinder. No lock can withstand angle grinders.

there seemed to be a bit of molten metal where they took it off. I dont think it was easy. not sure about the size. it was chunky tho

Go back one weekend and angle grind a section of fence away.

I'm paranoid about my bike being stolen. I had 2 bikes stolen, my Klein (I still will murder the fuka if I find him), and my Peugeot Sachs Gripshift mtb, back in 1991. It was the first Gripshift in this country. Nobody had it, till a toerag made off with it from Kings Street, Hammersmith.

agree with tommy - they should have given some warning, so if you argue enough it's likely that the university will just pay up cos it's cheaper and less hassle for them. i know this as i worked with my university on trying to reclaim the abandoned bicycles: turns out someone had left a bike for 4 months over the winter, so even though there were notices up for 3-4 weeks prior to bike locks being cut, the persons bike went missing and they are blaming the university. personally, i think it's their own fault and we now have notices (or, are getting notices) up stating this for the future.

however, in a similar vein, i keep my lock in my locker which i pass on the way to the bike lockup. my rationale being that i didn't want the lock mechanism itself to get rusted or damaged from excess water, plus having to fish around and retrieve it from under other bikes was going to be a nusiance.

are they likely to do that (not to say its not worth trying) but I figured that since it is uni property they can do what they want. I was never sure of the legality of leaving locks around the place anyhow.

they cut the lock itself or cut the section of the fence that needed to removed the lock?

I'm paranoid about my bike being stolen. I had 2 bikes stolen, my Klein (I still will murder the fuka if I find him), and my Peugeot Sachs Gripshift mtb, back in 1991. It was the fist Gripshift in this country. Nobody had it, till a toerag made off with it from Kings Street, Hammersmith.

i had a raleigh gripshift mtb around the same time that i got as a result of (a friend of mine being mugged whilst riding and) my previous mtb being stolen. i was well pissed off cos i took it to the pub and despite locking the back wheel and frame, the front wheel and taking the saddle with me, some fscker still managed to steal the handlebars!! and, i was only in there between 8-10pm, so not even late, and the bike was immediately outside the pub (large windows but i was at the back) on holloway road.

they cut the lock itself or cut the section of the fence that needed to removed the lock?

The lock. At least if they cut the fence then they replaced it.

there seemed to be a bit of molten metal where they took it off. I dont think it was easy. not sure about the size. it was chunky tho

oxy / acetylene cutting rig then buy the sounds of it.

I'm still getting the kryptonite fageddaboudit mini either way (if that the one you had), it still buy me time.

What college was this?

I hope it isn't Imperial; my ny 3000 is in the bike store at the moment :-/

not imperial. birkbeck

there seemed to be a bit of molten metal where they took it off. I dont think it was easy. not sure about the size. it was chunky tho

I went to a steel merchant to get something to make a ground anchor out of.

I was expecting to have to find some random thing in the offcuts, but the guy got out his blow torch and just made one for me there and then based on my description out of some 1" x 1" square steel rod.

The stuff, no matter how strong and heavy, melts like butter at the right heat.

The equipment is fairly portable, im sure the uni technicians have some gear.

uni always tend to have these sort of gear, especially art university, hell you can built a whole new bike just by using the university equipment.

^ Yep, they do have the gear. At Imperial they went simply round removing abandoned bikes in the lock up - two guys and a bloody massive angle grinder.

not imperial. birkbeck

That's a relief!

not imperial. birkbeck

in that case, you need to go to senate house in the building opposite as it's they who look after the grounds, not birkbeck. my experience is that the blokes on the reception desk are next to useless - they will tell you to go somewhere else like SOAS so you may have to humour them and walk outside, smoke a cigarette, and then walk back in and ask again to see the head of security (or whatever). my guess, tho, is that you won't have much luck complaining if it wasn't on the bikestands as they seem to have been cleaning up this week for graduation ceremonies or something (all those marquees in the middle?) - i saw them chipping the chewing gum off the floor the other day.

btw, which bike is yours? mine was one of the two lemonds often locked up there

i say kill them back.

eye for an eye

btw, which bike is yours? mine was one of the two lemonds often locked up there

Generally, a chrome pista, though recently due to amusing bottom bracket issues it has been my claud butler tourer.

I think you are right about the monkeys on the security desk. Im gonna get the number for estates management (or whoever) and have a little chat with them. Apparently, there was a notice on the bike racks yesterday saying that bikes should be moved for thursday and friday. Nothing about locks (though it may have been implied - arguably) and I don't think that 1-2 days is enough notice if they are gonna start cutting stuff. I'll have a word with someone and voice my displeasure.

4-fux-ake! Thats the lock I'm saving my pennies to buy!

Ebay from the states - £45 delivered. Booya. Seems like a pretty burly lock too.

Ebay from the states - £45 delivered. Booya. Seems like a pretty burly lock too.

heavy as fuck too, almost twice or triple the weight of my Evolution Mini.