Ways not to lock your bike

It's in France, and while Paris is as bad as London for bike thefts, in smaller towns like this it's proportionately less of a problem. I met one of the guys who works for the parking management company here last year, he told me that since they'd installed the cameras a year or so earlier, they'd only had one reported theft attempt, a guy tried to pinch a wheel, and they identified him and recovered the wheel.
But the racks are crap, yes.

I had look further down the same bike rack this morning, and it's like a case study in how not to lock up your bike....

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More of the same...

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Ha well if everyone's doing it. There isn't a huge choice of methods when the racks are that awful.

We have those racks too. Not having to consider a derailleur, I stick my back wheel in the rack and chuck a chain-lock round the chainstays, spokes and rack. To be honest though, any would be thief could probably cut through the rack a lot quicker than my lock...

Soho...

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I’m surprised this has taken as long as it has. Bike has been there untouched for about 3-4 months in a carpark visible from the park entrance and I’m pretty sure it was on the cable lock you see cut. Since Monday the front wheel has gone and I’m not sure what’s going on with the D locks. It looks a bit like it has been double bitch-locked.

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Helmet straps get caught in spokes, unseating would-be thief.

Barely need to even lock anything in Japan anyway, seemed very safe when I went! More likely to get it moved from parking it illegally

Definitely, when I visited back in 2010 people stopped by in shops on a scooter leaving the key and their helmet on the machine, our guide left her purse on the panier of her bike parked outside while accompanying us inside a building, etc. We where absolutely stunned down here in France it is impossible to think of anything similar

Unbelievable

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This kind of stuff is so daft it almost tempts me into becoming a bike thief.

Just seen the lock appears to be a krypto fahg or similar, which compounds the stupidity.

This is what we have at our gym. Often see bikes locked this way. Unless they carry a cable I can’t see anyway of improving on this if you have a rear mech.

W o w

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Haha... it took me AGES to see that : )

Almost checked that it would roll out.

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should have burrowed the lower end of the chain in the sand a bit for extra safety

Found all these in a single open access garage in Central. The Zipp's caught my eye with QR's and no wheel locks, followed by the Ti with DA cranks (with mtb pedals) only locked through the rack, and then the cannondale with carbon rims locked just through the forks. Multiple thousands worth of bikes barely locked up with no cameras and no doors on the garage

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I was gonna post this in Stolen Bikes for Luke, but he doesn’t deserve it. This is awful. Cannot believe someone I know used this lock. A full grown adult.

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Thief just happened to have some nail clippers in his pocket.

A good read

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/vanmoof-says-its-bike-is-impossible-to-steal-we-stole-it/

Rural area but still, wtf

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