Ways not to lock your bike

Check the way the actual bolts on the stand are steadily being removed. Shoreditch can fuck right off for locking bikes up. Always get nervous leaving even the crappiest bikes around there.

Shoreditch can fuck right off.

ftfy

^^ On the subject of bolts being removed, don't lock your bikes up outside the Sun in Camberwell (used to be the Sun and Doves):

Guessing at least one cyclist came back to a nasty shock at some point.

oooof, fuckers, whats it like as just the sun! has it changed much aint been down there for ages

its RUBBISH now

Ah memories... My second home for about 5 years at the early part of the last decade. Used to be a great pub. Amazing beer garden

Check the way the actual bolts on the stand are steadily being removed. Shoreditch can fuck right off for locking bikes up. Always get nervous leaving even the crappiest bikes around there.

Don't really like leave any bike anywhere in london

lamposts are the only thing to lock to.

Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a winner:

Winner? barely scratching the surface.

Exactly how my first bike got stolen. A fine red steed from JJB...

Seen this one a few different times and it's always locked in the same way.

IS that even locked? Looks like my size, where is it?*

• Just curious
  

I left it a couple of days before posting.

Locked by the front wheel then over the dt and tt.

Take a front wheel with you and you're away...

notcondoningtheftbytheway

Here's a couple I saw this morning.

I left it a couple of days before posting.

Ha ha. I bet no one else left it for a couple of days.

^^ That second one has been there long enough for the rear tyre to go flat.... so maybe that is secure enough. The first... who would nick it? Seriously?

The second one wasn't there yesterday so that flat tyre is new.
I personally wouldn't steal either of them but this is manchester and they would make nice crack head vehicles.

I personally wouldn't steal either of them but this is manchester and they would end up at A6 cycles with someone who doesn't like the cost of actually fixing anything

ftfy.

Say what?

The second one wasn't there yesterday so that flat tyre is new.
I personally wouldn't steal either of them but this is manchester and they would make nice crack head vehicles.

Sure, I thought that after I posted, they are both shit, and yes, they are both the sort of vehicle that is used almost exclusively by people wearing white trainers and head to toe grey tracksuit thingy (with or without a hood). Round here anyway.

I mean, what is it with this particular design of MTB? Where do they all come from, who the fuck buys them, why?

china, idiots, cheapest one in tescos

neeext

Always lock up my bike outside the pub which the probable miscreants frequent. None of them would dare take it................

china, idiots, cheapest one in tescos

They go to A6 cycles, Snottyotter tells them how much their cheapest new bikes are. Offers to show them the second-hand ones, but they shun them, and are directed to Tesco/Halfords/Argos.

They then return a few months later with a wreck which was never properly assembled, pleading poverty and wanting free repairs, or they come back a week later wanting their mail-order/supermarket-box bike properly assembled and are astounded by how much a mechanic's time costs to do that kind of check and setup.

Lost causes.