Ways not to lock your bike

Cambridge > Oxford on so many levels.

I guess at night, tealeafs just drive around with an empty van and fill it?

ftfy

last night I saw a cheap single speed with brooks, the whole thing locked with a decent chain but only by the saddle rails. Priority-based locking strategy.

Saw a bike with a D lock used just on one spoke, seriously?

Reminded me of the most stupid ever lockup, which I saw a few years back. TWO krypto fagghetaboutits, locking a bunch of spokes on each (quick release) wheel, but not the bike itself.

Great attempt I saw at uni the other day. Quick release too if you cant see in the picture.

Not sure if it's clear from the (crap) photo, but the lock doesn't actually go through anything except a bit of the frame!

I have to say, a lot of these deserve to get scoused.

Aha some of these are ridiculous

it looks like it could actually be ridden still ^^^

Found this beauty locked up to itself on Upper street yesterday. I was locking my bike to the stand and moved the rear wheel to get my lock on when the whole bike came away from the stand.

It was still there when I took this as I came back to my bike an hour later.

In a quiet side street in SW7 ... one snip and its gone ...

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Found this one a while ago, in Oxford St.

The best bit is that the wire itself was just tied in a knot...

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It's not even a complex knot.

In a quiet side street in SW7 ... one snip and its gone ...

Locked up the all important HHS spok

This might have been shown in here before, it's on Southgate Grove. It's just next to a junction I sometimes use for schools' courses so it doubles as a chance to say something about locking your bike up properly.

On behalf of Lello

from the ££££ frame and wheels to even leaving the £70 lights are still attached... gah

Either this is a spoof of the owner was watching

Good god

Where?

It was at my work yesterday. To be fair it is a semi secure basement, but its a big office building and there are delivery drivers and workmen coming in and out all day. It was still there when i left at the end of the day so it looks to have survived.

should have taken yourself a nice DA rear wheel it would have been doing him a favour

Thats crazy, deserves it stolen for a serious lack of common sense.

two from near my work this week

1) decent D-lock being used as a cable padlock only.

2) unusually for this thread, a girl's town bike quite securely locked with a heavy duty chain going through her frame, rear wheel and around the sheffield stand. and my top tube.

yep, i went to get my bike and someone had locked to it in a moment of dizzying stupidity. i then locked to them and left a note with my mobile number. in fairness she was very apologetic and did really grasp how dumb this was and how inconvenient to me to have to hang about in the office in the evening til she released me

Date her or sleep with her at least.

those combination locks are dead easy to open just by feeling for notches. I have one which I use to lock up bikes in the shed, the numbers have worn off. I literally have to crack the code each time I need to get a bike out.

Date her or sleep with her at least.

Its the only polite thing to do, and she already has your number