Ways not to lock your bike

And save all the Jews?

Nah you're thinking of that film where he keeps having the same day every day

Until he finally manages to reunite the band?

While watching C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.

Always double lock your bike.

Brilliant

I thought this was the Sheldon method, rear wheel and seat tube? Otherwise you can just snip the rim and you've got the majority of a bike pretty easy?

Nope.

indeed. the Sheldon method is rim only and just works for relatively low crime areas or less desirable bikes...

...and "snipping" a rim is harder than you might think.

Pretty easy to cut an alu rim with a hacksaw.

Pretty easy to cut an alu rim with a hacksaw.

It's also argued that you'd need snips to cut the steel tyre bead. More importantly, since the back wheel is possibly the second most valuable thing on a bike, it's not worth nicking a bike if you have to destroy the back wheel to do so.

You can saw through the bead too, although snips make it easier. They'd be part of the average thieves toolkit anyway. A £1000 bike with no back wheel is still worth and fair bit and a £50 bike with no back wheel just needs a wheel off that poorly locked bike round the corner and you've got £50.

You can saw through the bead too, although snips make it easier. They'd be part of the average thieves toolkit anyway. A £1000 bike with no back wheel is still worth and fair bit and a £50 bike with no back wheel just needs a wheel off that poorly locked bike round the corner and you've got £50.

I agree, I think the arguments for the Sheldon method (not risking damage to the frame if they use it to try to twist the lock off) aren't very good, and certainly don't apply to big cities.

If it's a carbon wheel, you just need Indra

Thieves dont give a fuck
They happily due the rotating a bike to break a d-lock method, which totally fucks up the frames.

Thieves dont give a fuck
They happily due the rotating a bike to break a d-lock method, which totally fucks up the frames.

You make it sound like they are getting these bikes for free and so don't give a damn about them. Tell me more about these thieves...

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

Ha. But seriously, other states were convict states, but not South Australia.

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This is like the 3rd time i seen this bike like this, in a empty side road that i rarely even go past.

My first bike theft was because it was locked with one of those in exactly the same method

I mean my first bike that was nicked...innit copper

I visited Canterbury yesterday, most of the bikes were secured by leaninig them on walls

Some one at uni doesn't quite understand the concept...

You make it sound like they are getting these bikes for free and so don't give a damn about them. Tell me more about these thieves...

There seemed to be some sentiment above that thieves would not have a pop at a bike secured with the sheldon method, because they wouldn't think it was worth losing the value of rear wheel etc..

Some one at uni doesn't quite understand the concept...

I saw one the other day near Brick Lane...