Ways not to lock your bike

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washed down with four of those weak oreo numbers.

Ahem Baseball stadium in the states that serves burger with a Krispy Kreme doughnut as the fucking bun!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/03/broadcasts/main1680067.shtml

For a mere $4.50 it's breakfast, dinner, and a little dessert all in one. That it packs up to 1,000 calories — the donut alone has 10 grams of sugar — **doesn't seem to faze diabetic diner Floyd Schuetz. **
fuken Americans

Also American chef invents way to deep fry beer

I like the purple one behind too. if you took the bars/forks off that lock would slip over the head tube no probs, then you could re-attach forks/bars and ride off.

why?

There is a pub in the states that serves a 96oz burger (6lbs of meat) wtf.

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tru fax

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMRHGW_K-M8

It's funny because neither of them will see 50..

My friend and I were in awe at the bad locking on show at Kings College today. Behold!

Oh how I love a bike give-away! People can be so generous sometimes ;D

Leave any notes?

To be fair, such bicycle stand only encourage people to lock it precisely like that.

Sheffield stand seemed to work better, still get people to keep their wheels secure though.

+1

Sheffields are best. But still, I managed to find a way to lock mine securely.

In future I'm just going to list people's bikes that are locked like this on eBay on my phone on the spot and leave a note where the bike was with the listing number so they can bid if they wish to. I think that for being a complete fucking moron this is actually quite fair.

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You're doing it wrong! Secure the frame to the stand with a d-lock and the use the puny cable to go all over everything to secure the wheels. People never learn :-)

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You're doing it wrong! Secure the frame to the stand with a d-lock and the use the puny cable to go all over everything to secure the wheels. People never learn :-)

Even better, people could just not be lazy tossers and do what I did today.

Locked up outside Nelsons hospital in Merton (shit hospital in shit area). Spent all of 5 seconds looking for the right locking spot, then took the front wheel off and managed to lock through frame and both wheels and railings with just a Fahg mini.

Reckon it took me 30 seconds longer in total, but it meant there was no chance anyone could have taken my bike.

Simples!

/coolstorybro

Quick release bike parking, Old Street. - YouTube

Stopped on Old Street today so locked up near the tube station, north-east side on the pavement. As I started getting my locks out my bike inexplicably started to lean over... the reason was this stand had previously been cut in two and could swing freely.

I didn't notice it on approaching because it was 'closed' without an obvious gap, so watch out. I reported it to Hackney as a fault.

Shit. That's bad!

I've got a feeling that that location is in Islington Borough though.

To the owner of a Specialized Tricross on Great Marlborough Street in Soho last night, who failed to lock their bike to anything (a mistake, I presume; it was locked through the rear wheel and frame but not to the post).

Thanks for snipping through my cable. I locked your bike up and left an obvious note instructing you to phone, which, somehow, you failed to read. Please learn to lock your bike correctly (and read properly) then people won't go out of their way to give you a hand only to end up an (admittedly cheap) wheel lock down. Perhaps calling others "fucking idiots" (in your note) is not such an idea in future either.

I like a good shake.

TBF though, you do get sizeable proportions of your daily VITs :P
Though 3 days worth of saturated (or a week for normal people) is bloody impressive, do they have mad chemical physicists working night & day on new ways to get so much nasty into one small cup?

TBF though, you do get sizeable proportions of your daily VITs :P
Though 3 days worth of saturated (or a week for normal people) is bloody impressive, do they have mad chemical physicists working night & day on new ways to get so much nasty into one small cup?

It is nearly 1 litre though isn't it? So not exactly a small cup.

I've decided you can never be too careful, so...

It is nearly 1 litre though isn't it? So not exactly a small cup.

couldn't work out what fl-oz turn out in english. but still, all that in 1litre is hella impressive. a true feat of modern chemical engineering

Left my bike in Shepherds Bush this morning with just a curly lock around the chainstay having popped into the bakery then discovered I didn't have the key to unlock it. Queue four hours on public transport fetching the correct set of keys (twice) but pleased to find bike still there with all detachables still attached. Could have been worse!

TBF though, you do get sizeable proportions of your daily VITs :P
Though 3 days worth of saturated (or a week for normal people) is bloody impressive, do they have mad chemical physicists working night & day on new ways to get so much nasty into one small cup?

The most nasty ingredient of all, though, is the Oreos. Most artificial, sickening "cookies" ever made. Texture and taste is as if somebody has blended together margarine, that artificial cream in a can they're so fond of (forget the name), chocolate powder and cat litter.

Ok this is a weird idea, however the bike has to be built like this:

The locking mechanism comprises a section of the seatstays — the two tubes that extend up to the seat from the rear wheel. Leinonen installed a universal joint at the junction of the tube and latches in the stays to secure it to the frame.

The locking section of the frame swings to secure your bike to a meter, post. Should an ignorant criminal break the lock, the chain stays — those tubes extending from the rear wheel to the crank — won’t support a rider’s weight.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/09/bicycle-lock/