Ways not to lock your bike

^brilliant
Few years ago I went to a pub and I thought I locked my bike to a rail.
After many pints and few hours I went to unlock the bike and I realised it was lying on the pavement. I just locked the lock on the rail and the bike was free.
Ah forgot to mention it was in front of tesco on bethnal green rd

Very poor technique, if you are going to use one small d lock on frame only you should always go round the headtube, it looks much classier.

bike behind is jokes

Correct locking technique in Japan.

Been here for 9 years, people are very trusting.

I love the way people save a table in the coffee shop by leaving their iphone on the table and then go to buy a drink.

Very poor technique, if you are going to use one small d lock on frame only you should always go round the headtube, it looks much classier.

I only use one small d-lock ('cos Australia) and I either lock up my front wheel and downtube or rear wheel and seat tube. I'm a big fan of the front wheel and downtube because then your bars can't be turned. Only when I can't be bothered and am only going to be locked up for a few minutes, I'll lock up my head tube. I never lock by top tube only.

I do exactly the same actually, I carry a second lock sometimes but mostly I lock front wheel and downtube, or head tube for posing.

^ jokers

Rear wheel and frame, either via the seat tube or stays.

Although, I have my front wheel Atomic-22'd and is this safe as houses

Why would you lock only the front wheel, when the rear is more expensive to replace?

I lock both.

The moment I atomic22'd all my wheels my locking experience got much more enjoyable and focused on head tube.

I lock headtube because my mini evo wont fit around my seatube/downtube plus a wheel.

I have a second lock for when I'm leaving it for more than 5 minutes though.

My new on-one has a triangle formed above the seat tube-toptube joint but my D-lock is only just long enough to put the straight bit of the D across the rim.

Looks like I'm going to need some kind of ring-armoured cable to secure the front wheel to the frame and then another D-lock to lock the whole thing up to whatever stand, railing or lamp-post is available.

Current paranoia is tyre vandalism though.

I lock headtube because my mini evo wont fit around my seatube/downtube plus a wheel.

I have a second lock for when I'm leaving it for more than 5 minutes though.

Seatstay and rear wheel is yr buddy

I use this method if I'm leaving it for a while

To be honest I rarely leave it locked up for longer than 10 minutes, thats what the Pompino is for.

Mini evo allows Sheldon method.

Cue debate.

Mini evo allows Sheldon method.

Cue debate.

Sometimes I find I can do the SuperSheldon(TM) i.e., round the back wheel and through a chainring with my Abus Mini.

Most occasions of use of the sheldon method will also allow round the seatstays (but perhaps not rim), which is more secure...

isn't this the sheldon method?

Why would you lock only the front wheel, when the rear is more expensive to replace?

I lock both.

Because I live in Australia and no one is going to steal my crappy rear Mavic wheel witha screw on 7 speed Shimano 105 hub on my shitty #cannondalerack unless they're carrying a small enough allen key and can be bothered deflating the tyre to get it through the brake pads.

tl;dr? 'cos Australia. That's why.

^ But aren't you a country descended from convicts? Must be some genetic memory still present?

My first thought was "If the owner turned up with no locks and just pulled somebody else's over his crankset, that's only marginally less stupid because this is not a place where an unlocked bike will remain untouched for long." But there is a lock on the bike - not even locking the wheel to the frame. Boggling.

isn't this the sheldon method?

Yeah, and that's a good example, if you moved the bike forwards a bit that lock should fit around the seat stays and maybe one of the spoks thus providing frame and wheel locking... (but may not fit seat tube+rim, which is presumably why the owner has chosen to sheldon it)

yeah but the whole point of sheldon locking is that even if you tried to take the wheel off the frame the lock wouldn't get through

Yah but sheldon locking is defeatable by cutting the rim, which has been documented. In the above example the bike can be locked more safely without adding lock size or weight...

My first thought was "If the owner turned up with no locks and just pulled somebody else's over his crankset, that's only marginally less stupid because this is not a place where an unlocked bike will remain untouched for long." But there is a lock on the bike - not even locking the wheel to the frame. Boggling.
In disbelief, I actually zoomed in on this. All the locks, much metal, but sadly, zero brain cells.

Or...if it's where I think it is, perhaps this eejit only believes crimes of fashion exist.

Yah but sheldon locking is defeatable by cutting the rim, which has been documented. In the above example the bike can be locked more safely without adding lock size or weight...

yeah but it someone took a hacksaw to my HED i'd go Liam Neeson on them