Ways not to lock your bike

that's the sheldon brown way

Really, wheel only? don't get it, surely you can get through a wheel easier than a lock no?

http://sheldonbrown.com/lock-strategy.html

yes just read it, you're right, I stand corrected, didn't know that, I always put it through the frame as well

i'd personally put it through frame and tyre

there's no reason not to put it around the seat tube / rim though. Unless you have aero tubing or whatever and it doesn't fit.

Someone at the gym I go to has a bianchi pista and all they do is loop something that looks like black spaghetti through the top of the frame. It seriously looks like something you'd pick up from poundland.

yes just read it, you're right, I stand corrected, didn't know that, I always put it through the frame as well

The Sheldon way work, but his locking method were useful at the time he wrote this article, however nowadays we would suggested locking it the way you just did for extra security since thieves now cut through the rear wheel with a power tools instead and just fob another wheel on it to sell it.

thieves now cut through the rear wheel with a power tools instead and just rob another wheel.

Fixed?

What a waste of two perfectly good places to lock a real bike...

I was held at knifepoint for a naff 2009 Create.

Spotted this at the racks at work. Haven't seen it there before, possibly stolen?

Why bother takin the frontwheel out????

I know who in the right mind would ever steal a police bike.. but surely a fed is supposed to set an example! fucking hell!

LOL

I'd hit that!

No seriously thou....

Just me that want need a police bike?

I'm new here but my boyfriend is on here loads so hoping you can help - he just went to unlock his bike in clerkenwell and someone's locked there bike to his... he's worried about leaving it there in case it's gone by tomorrow so is just hanging around but no sign of the other owner as yet. Any suggestions? It's 930pm so no bike shops open; oh the other bike looks like a loved nice dutch sit up with baskets on front and back he says. Hopefully not a theif trick.. any help appreciated!

I'm new here but my boyfriend is on here loads so hoping you can help - he just went to unlock his bike in clerkenwell and someone's locked there bike to his... he's worried about leaving it there in case it's gone by tomorrow so is just hanging around but no sign of the other owner as yet. Any suggestions? It's 930pm so no bike shops open; oh the other bike looks like a loved nice dutch sit up with baskets on front and back he says. Hopefully not a theif trick.. any help appreciated!

I'd err on the side of caution and assume this is a thiefs trick. If anyone locked a bike to my bike, I'd quite happily saw through another bike to free mine, let alone a lock.

yup but we can't get hold of anyone nearby that has any tools.. if anyone happens to live on clerkenwell road and has tools, I'm sure he'll buy you loads of beer / bike stuff!

thanks, & I think he would but can't get hold of anyone nearby with tools.. if anyone lives on clerkenwell road and has any, I'm sure he'll buy you loads of beer/bike stuff in return for a hand!

maybe go up the road and ask someone at Look Mum No Hands (bike shop / cafe) It's toward Old Street. It's open until ten - hurry!

Escaped posh Richard Curtis character turned up at 11.20 (I'd been hanging around in pubs since 9 on the offchance someone came back) and said she was terribly sorry.

I'd arranged for tools and more locks to come in a cab (to strip bike down to nothing except frame and rear wheel for an overnight stay) and lock up the wheels etc with more locks until whoever it was had hopefully gone by morning.

She paid me the £20 that had cost. Faith in humanity restored. Though not people's stupidity (she said this had happened before)

£20 for the cab was the bare minimum really... that chump should have paid for your beers as well.

Escaped posh Richard Curtis character turned up at 11.20 (I'd been hanging around in pubs since 9 on the offchance someone came back) and said she was terribly sorry.

I'd arranged for tools and more locks to come in a cab (to strip bike down to nothing except frame and rear wheel for an overnight stay) and lock up the wheels etc with more locks until whoever it was had hopefully gone by morning.

She paid me the £20 that had cost. Faith in humanity restored. Though not people's stupidity (she said this had happened before)

Well done. She's lucky it wasn't my bike. She'd of returned to find her bike chopped in half

http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/38854000@N04/5125792220/sizes/m/ outside asda in hounslow.

Well done. She's lucky it wasn't my bike. She'd of returned to find her bike chopped in half

Same! Luckily it's never happened to me, but It'd take me less than an hour to start getting someone to come down with a hack saw.

Well done for being patient! I bet it was a bit stressful though.

Saw this 'locked' up in Newcastle the other day.
At first glance I didn't think it had a lock at all

But then I noticed a single padlock on the front wheel, impressive!

/\ This is amazing.

Poor Krypto.

Well done. She's lucky it wasn't my bike. She'd of returned to find her bike chopped in half

I have to admit I'm guilty of tethering someone in the past. To this day I can't see how I did it - I'm usually so much more conscious of this sort of thing. It was my number 2 lock (seat and one wheel to my frame) and somehow I tethered some other persons bike outside York Hall in B'nal Green. I returned to a remarkably polite note in my spokes giving me a ticking off. Didn't have a pen on me or I would have grovelled my balls off in response. What a dunce! Never done it again mark you.