Any Safe-ish bike parking in Angel?

Might be a stupid question, but feeling a little paranoid and my mini Fah has not arrived yet... anyway I have the afternoon off and am feeling lazy so want to go see "moon" at the angel Vue cinema multiplex thingy but am a little worried to leave the bike near the cinema for a couple of hours. Current locks are a abus steel-o-chain and my girlfriends borrowed granit chain (not highly rated though).

I know nowhere is foolproof but was thinking near the tube entrance should be alright.

Sorry if this is terminally boring but I had one of those voices in my head saying get a bus. Not use the, er, abus

suggestions?

asm looks after locked bikes in busy areas for an hourly fee. he combines it with his job informing the public about golf sales.

Angel is a shocking area for bike theft. Chummy Lover Boy, my elder daughter's boyfriend, has had thre bikes stolen in that area in the past couple of years.

If you are feeling lazy, take the bus.

but am a little worried to leave the bike near the cinema for a couple of hours.

suggestions?

Don't lock it near the cinema then.

I wouldn't, got my bike nicked by the green a month or so ago....
But, if you have to you could maybe look into that underground car park by the Business design Center???/

Yeah, I suspected as much. Maybe I'll bus it.
I wonder if I could hire Carl Weathers as personal bike guard?

Maybe you should lock your bus as well, they even go for buses.

I would not lock it any place that has a post code ending in 1 or beginning with E for more than 5 mins

Nice idea, if I walk I'll lock my shoes.

I wouldn't, got my bike nicked by the green a month or so ago....
But, if you have to you could maybe look into that underground car park by the Business design Center???/

Not a bad idea.I went to the Curzon Soho once and the guy in the NCP nearby let me lock the bike in there.

lots of bikes are stolen in angel, don't lock it there!

i have often seen broken chains lying on the ground, missing front wheels etc.

I've heard of people being stolen in the cinema. Sitting still in the dark = danger.

+1 on not locking it near the cinema. Mine is parked in Angel during the day but I have parking away from the road right outside our reception and security guards. I wouldn't like to leave it every day generally around Angel.

There are some racks outside Sainsbury's on Liverpool Road. Very high pedestrian levels so you'd have to be very blatant to use an angle grinder or jack outside there, so with decent locks I think you'd be ok. Also most people who lock up there are in Sainsburys and could come out at any time.

Lots of bikes/wheels/saddles are stolen in Angel but that's normally because they are locked up with shit locks or the wheels/saddle are unsecured, you get a lot of skeleton bikes that have been stripped so make sure you secure saddle/wheels too.

islington design centre. there's an underground car park there. i used to work there. locked my bike up there.

There are some racks outside Sainsbury's on Liverpool Road. Very high pedestrian levels so you'd have to be very blatant to use an angle grinder or jack outside there, so with decent locks I think you'd be ok.

Chummy Lover Boy lost a bike just there.

Please stop calling me that Mister O.

Balki, if you even look as though you might look lustfully at either of my daughters, you are a dead man.

Too old, too broke and too Australian, if I recall correctly.

Racist.

My younger daughter commented, shortly after her 16th birthday, a year and a half ago:

"You know when you are getting old when paedophiles no longer find you attractive."

I dont know what that means... but its made me uncomfortable.

Well, until the proper lock arrives in the post no lock bike in angel. I will check out the design centre though. Have to get some bearings for my seat post bolts too.

If you leave your bike anywhere in Angel for the length of time it takes you to watch a film I would put £50 in it not being there when you exit the Cinema.

I lived there for four years and would never leave mine anywhere outside that I could not see- and then it would have two locks on.

What colour is your bike? what time are you going to the cinema?