Ways not to lock your bike

Blud, trees get cut up all the time in Moss Side.

What's the best for value lock, or is it just you pay for what you get type of business ?

Should've bunjee'd the seat.

And the grips on the handlebars.

Seats and grips, the primary reasons why twat's steal bikes!

True fact!

What's the best for value lock, or is it just you pay for what you get type of business ?

UTFS: "locks that work"

http://www.nesta.org.uk/areas_of_work/challengeprizes/cyclingchallenges/assets/features/hands_off_my_bike

Spamming this in case owner is looking:

Brother Cycle - Locked/Stripped - Kingly St/Fouberts Pl W1
https://www.lfgss.com/thread98724.html

Poster-child for how not to lock your bike and the consequences.

http://www.nesta.org.uk/areas_of_work/challengeprizes/cyclingchallenges/assets/features/hands_off_my_bike

Here's my suggestion:

Working police force.

I guess midgets couldn't steal it.

You were out drinking in Hackney? You should have told me!

Too lazy to ride far SE at the moment but would have ridden there. Probably.

that photo is super old!

This woman is unlocking her bike that she left chained to that forklift. Really. I think she emerged from the bar opposite when the forklift driver started loudly announcing that he was going to drive off with it.

I really am not sure where to post this, but I just have to let it out somewhere...

I was locking up my bike in Brixton this morning on those stands outside KFC, there was a fake police (community support police), he was hanging out there or something, so there I went to lock my bike, as I was finishing and just about to take my saddle off, he came to me and gave me a lesson of how to lock my bike, he said: "You see that wheel there with that cable (there was a wheel only locked up to the next stand), if you don't wrap you lock around here, there... (I had no idea what the he was on about, but I think he told me I should put my lock through the top tube), then you bike might end up like that.." I have a kryptonite 3000 plus a cable so both my frame and both wheels are locked, and I take my saddle with me, and there he was comparing my locking method with someone who used a pound shop cable to only lock the wheel... surely he must have better things to do, surely...

About an hour later, when I went to get my bike, he was still hanging about there, surely he must have better things to do than that?

free bike guard

I would rather him doing some proper policing than that. As is as walking away from my bike, a man who almost walked into me nearly slap me in the face coz, according to him, I got into his way. He saw it and said nothing...

Perhaps he fancied you? You missed out on a shag with a guy in uniform.

Creatively parked

Creatively parked

apart from the fact that they have utterly neglected to lock either wheel, I would call that locking level: Boss.

By the way perhaps the best ways to lock your bike up is on a barrier in the middle of a busy dual carriageway. One it is out of the way of pedestrians so is less likely to get vandalised and too thieves hate being in full view of everyone. But you still need to use two strong D locks or course.

I would call it "let's throw that cunts bike over the railings for a laugh"

^^ Good tip thanks for that. Next time I need to leave my bike somewhere like a city centre I'll ride out to the ring roads, find a dual carriageway and make sure I twin lock my bike to the middle of the road. In other news live tigers, moving air planes, rollercoasters and the cells of local police stations also prove excellent deterrents to likely thieves.

I would call it "let's throw that cunts bike over the railings for a laugh"

:-)

This is Belgium, and people here are very relaxed when come to bikes and cycling in town. The shot is from Ghent, a very vibrant town with a big Uni and a lot of youngsters, who are naturally free and easy with these things

The rack on the yellow one is pretty neat.

so there's a bike at a tube station I go through every day. It's not locked, it's been on the floor and someone has stood it up and put it back in the bike rack. Still not locked and still there a week later. It's not a shit bike either (but not amazing).
I'm guessing people in West London are nicer than East?