Ways not to lock your bike

Not really a locking fail...determined thieves I guess?

brutal

saw a single wheel (quite a nice one) d-locked to a lamp post and round the d-lock was a tangle of broken abus cable.
no surprises where the rest of the bike is
theif'd

Just watching "robbed, raided, reunited" on bbc 1 at the moment and there is a piece on the cycle task force who had set up a badly locked bike as a trap and were watching it. They were bemused that someone was taking pictures of it and from what I could see the person taking the photo looked like a cyclist. I wouldn't be surprised if the photo is in this thread.

haha^

Did you recognise the location?

Skip back to about 11.01 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv/bbc_one_london/watchlive

Or 03:45 at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b02xcf3p/Robbed_Raided_Reunited_Series_2_Episode_10/

It's on Endell St in Covent Garden outside the Nuffield Health gym

Both wheels have Q/R skewers.

cant get the frame wheel out of the frame tho

looks safe enough to me

Gone In 60 Seconds - The Bike Crime Wave Part 1 - YouTube

Gone In 60 Seconds - The Bike Crime Wave Part 2 - YouTube

^^^^^^^^^^^^ Awesome second video. A few more of those with some rougher manhandling please!

Admits stealing 100+ bikes = suspended sentence

He's safe from prosecution due to protected high viz though.

Both wheels have Q/R skewers.

Couldn't be locked any safer without a chain lock, looks okay to me,

Ok. My bad. I did think you could perhaps cut through the rear rim and take the frame & forks though.

MTB's are just awkward to lock anyway

Gone In 60 Seconds - The Bike Crime Wave Part 1 - YouTube

Gone In 60 Seconds - The Bike Crime Wave Part 2 - YouTube

Is the clearance rate of bike theft cases,
mentioned at any time in this lengthy video?
How many theft are never reported?
The majority of the theft are commited in heavily policed area,
with cams all over the place.

You'd have to cut through the rim of the rear wheel. Not entirely trivial but not really a challenge. And a really dumb invitation to leave open when that lock could easily have gone around the seatpost as well as the wheel. +1 for dumbitude.

Saw this note at Paddington today (not left on my bike) - polite instructions on how not to lock your bike:

So i lock my bike to a rack, come back like 10 minutes later, and some guy just left his bmx upside down right next to mine, like literally his pedal was in between my spokes, and it had no lock on it at all! i could of walked away with it my self, i could tell it was worth at least £250, shocking.

They love that upside down shit them BMXers, Maybe it's Kryptonite to thieves?

How are you meant to ride an upside down bike?

To stop it falling over, i did it my self, easily done, but not when locking up of course!

Is the clearance rate of bike theft cases,
mentioned at any time in this lengthy video?
How many theft are never reported?
The majority of the theft are commited in heavily policed area,
with cams all over the place.

I'm not going to rewatch it, but if IRC one of the people who's bike is stolen(in second vid) says that he was told by police there was a 10% chance of his bike being recovered... Or something like that.