Ways not to lock your bike

Some of the sights I see in the city, some people really are a) that stupid, or really dont care. Mine is double locked (D and a chain) even if I nip into s shop for five mins...

I'm thinking the blue step through might have been a drunken theft job or even a got drunk and lost the bike job.

Saw this today... not that it's a great loss to its owner...

I don't get why people leave bikes if someone takes a wheel off or something.....
I'd have it home right away to reduce my cost of replacing parts.

I don't get why people leave bikes if someone takes a wheel off or something.....
I'd have it home right away to reduce my cost of replacing parts.

I was wondering the other day if there's a possible business idea in flyering bikes that owners have obviously given up on. I get the impression that after one wheel or a saddle goes missing a huge number of people just have a massive meltdown and give up on their bike because they have no idea how to get it fixed.

Something along the lines of:

We can repair this bike for you! Give us a call on ... and we'll turn up and fix your bike while you have a coffee. You'll be able to ride it away etc. etc.

or

If you no longer want this bike we'll happily pay you for the remaining parts, otherwise it will slowly be stripped bare or kicked to pieces by passing scumbags.

The best part is you could earn money by basically transferring parts from an unwanted abandoned bike to a wanted but temporarily incapacitated one.

nothing.

ftfy

I'm thinking the blue step through might have been a drunken theft job or even a got drunk and lost the bike job.

Im guessing some idiot youths have nicked it, had some fun on it and then abandoned it. It's not the first time I have woken up to find a bike parked outside my back gate.

The joys of living on the edge of Moss Side.

^ i got my bike robbed from my yard last year in rusholme they climbed over an 8 foot wall to get at it and had to have passed it over the wall, locked up to get it out too,

and it was clearly one of my neighbours because theres absolutely no way you could see the bike unless you were on the 2nd floor of one of the adjoining houses,

best thing was the rear wheel and frame where locked together with a d-lock, and it had no brake pads on it, or front inner tube (the tyre was half off) as i was doing stuff to it.

Yeah similar thing happened at my friends house.

We saved a folding shopper bike from a skip, it was a complete rust bucket beater that we just let friends borrow whenever they came to visit, it was left in a mate back yard overnight and someone jumped the wall to take it and two other bikes.
My housemate actually saw some scally on it a few weeks later and confronted him but there was like 4 of them and he was on his own so decided it was wise to just let it go.

the fork, and then nothing...?

not locked to the forks at all, 2 seconds and that's gone

The frame is evidently too small for the owner.

Edit: Ha, clefty's post disappeared--I suspect because you thought better than to give the exact location?

How ridiculous is this?

Your endless posting of stupid shit is ridiculous.

dunno why but it looks like a potato chop

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Mate, you are boring and predictable.

The joys of living on the edge of Moss Side.

Yet you don't come play polo on the edge of moss side.

I've been invited a few times. Unfortunately I don't think it would go down well with the gf if I was to go out playing polo twice a week on top of Wednesday night rides and Walking Dead Mondays at my mates house.

Someone stole my bike a few days ago. Fortunately a friend found it so I cut it free. taped a note to the lamppost it was locked to and took a piss on the cut lock

^the guy probably unknowingly bought a stolen bike and is now wondering what the hell happened.

^the guy probably unknowingly bought a stolen bike and is now wondering what the hell happened.

nope, it was found with 2 hours and within a mile of where it was stolen from

yeah, they get rid of em fast. Still, congrats.

I do like the added touch of pissing on the broken lock.

Can you get aids from touching a piss soaked lock?

Yes.