Ways not to lock your bike

Probably a dumb question, but what is the 'proper' way to use those stands? i.e. How were they designed to be used?

You're obviously supposed to use the locking loop attached to the stand. With only a short D-lock, that's not possible, though.

Ah yeah, then lock round the little loop thing and the frame/wheel as usual.

Has locked bike wrong, doesn't understand the stand!

If you lock it like fixie boy has, you get the protection of two ends rods of the U part of the stand. If you locked to the U directly, Mr Thief just needs to put one cut in it and swivel one side to release the lock, in the situation pictured it would require two cuts.

If you lock it like fixie boy has, you get the protection of two ends rods of the U part of the stand. If you locked to the U directly, Mr Thief just needs to put one cut in it and swivel one side to release the lock, in the situation pictured it would require two cuts.

Hmm... I'm very sceptical about that claim.

I suspect if you rotated the frame around the vertical axis 90 degrees, so it's parallel to the arm, you could slide it off without too much trouble.

Hmm... I'm very sceptical about that claim.

I suspect if you rotated the frame around the vertical axis 90 degrees, so it's parallel to the arm, you could slide it off without too much trouble.

Perhaps, we were assuming that the lock was tight enough.

It looks like there's a cut away in the black section that a seat tube would fit into, and then you're supposed to d-lock through the flimsy metal ring.

D-. Would not use.

does this thread also cover places not to lock your bike as well?

just popped my head upstairs to check on my bike as it's the first day it's been locked on the street.

the fucking thing is covered in shrubbery as they're trimming the trees overhead.

ffs.

Camobike is super secure.

what do you take me for, a sap?

someone with sticky fingers probably has their designs on tea-leafing it right now...

Did you get it from Oak cycles?

Internet arguments don't seem so bad now, do they?

I'm sycamore of this.

Who are you to say my puns are worse than internet arguments, I'm a groan man!

I'm sycamore pun threads.

Who are you to say my puns are worse than internet arguments, I'm a groan man!

Leaf it out.

Yew idiot.

I'm sycamore of this.

I'm sycamore pun threads.

tree-post

I saw mine as being more alpha to his beta.

Only pollen your leg :)

There should be more of a stigma attached to this style of punning, anther page of it is too much.

Trees

There should be more of a stigma attached to this style of punning, anther page of it is too mulch.

Fixed it fir yew

There should be more of a stigma attached to this style of punning, anther page of it is too much.

It is admittedly a corny way of doing it that may pale compared to proper posting, but be charitable: You can see it as plain as day that it's in the palm of your hand--if you pine for relief from it, just sigh and press CTRL-W.

Last week in Kennington. Very nearly took it to work and left a note but the potential for that causing major strife was too much. Hope it didn't get nicked!

The genius who did this walked up and "unlocked" it as I was uploading the pic.