Ways not to lock your bike

I once saw a BMX with a crappy little cable lock around the seat pole, I rode it the whole way home.

Ftfy

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Taking the Abus out for a bit of endurance training I can only assume. It hasn't fulfilled any other purpose.
Unless the scorpion in the bar end is the security.

Just back from a weekend in Oxford. Everyone there seems perfectly content to lock the back wheel to the frame with a cheesestring and assume all will be well. Could be a bike theif's haven if everyone wasn't so posh.

oxford is lols. bikes strewn all over the place, a lot of them look like they have been abandoned for years...until you see that most people ride them in this condition.

i see this locked up this badly so often i'm almost tempted to leave a note on it

i see this locked up this badly so often i'm almost tempted to leave a note on it

Telling him how awesome it is?

Needs bar tape obvs, but otherwise I'd totally bang that.

Everyone there seems perfectly content to lock the back wheel to the frame with a cheesestring and assume all will be well.

Everyone seems to free-lock in Oxford. Probably due to the fact that there are usually only three options for bike parking:

1. Sheffield stands with decrepit rusted mountain bikes locked to them permanently.
   
2. Useless wheelbender racks that you can't actually lock any significant part of your bike to.
   
3. Walls and railings to lean your bike against.
   

Do it bonor, a nice note may save his bike.

meanwhile, in sleepy Norwich

Curse of the Wheelbenders

Did he have a white rear light?

This makes me laugh. I see it all the flipping time during the Nodder Mating Season.

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Because no one steals a bike when the sun is out..

I think i could live quiet comfortably if I quit my job and stole bikes locked up outside brockwell lido.

The front lock isn't even through the chickenwire fence.

who'd want that anyway, what with the broken seatstays.

haha! are you stuck there?

I think i could live quiet comfortably if I quit my job and stole bikes locked up outside XXXXXXXXX XXXX.

Don't post where they're locked.

The location is integral to weather a bike is badly locked or not.

But its okay Oliver
If any forumers steal the badly locked bikes I post - Its not a problem
If i wanted to steal them i would have already.
Fill your boots.

went through denmark recently and no one even bothers locking their bikes!!

yet our van windows were smashed and bags nicked… how does that work

went through denmark recently and no one even bothers locking their bikes!!

yet our van windows were smashed and bags nicked… how does that work

English plates? Just someone saying have a lovely holiday...

Doesn't look that stupid. Two bikes, one lock, quite effective.

yeah i guess so! looked like a lovely area, but once we spoke to a local she told us it wasn't so. i guess its not as obvious as london!

The location is integral to weather a bike is badly locked or not.

But its okay Oliver
If any forumers steal the badly locked bikes I post - Its not a problem
If i wanted to steal them i would have already.
Fill your boots.

It's a public forum. You don't need to be a forumer to read this thread, hence omitting location.