How To Lock Your Bike

http://www.nesta.org.uk/home1/assets/features/the_hands_off_my_bike_challenge_has_a_winner

Unfortunately neither of them is any good :(

The first one seems to just be a more complicated D-lock and the second essentially pointless since it doesn't secure the bike and is defeated by manouvres like undoing a crank...

even if you've a £300 wheel and there's a piece of shit £100 bike?
don;t think people are idiots for not having cable locks: they offer no protection from an half-equipped thief.
good to hear people are confident in the atomics.

agree re the g-lock, but the BiKLOX looks great.
if you undo the crank it's unlikely you'll get it off the spindle. if you manage to the bike is still effectively immobilized by the device cutting across the spokes.

OMG I fucking wish I entered now.

I had an what I thought was a mediocre idea as I expected extremely high standards of entries. My idea would have rinsed those.

even if you've a £300 wheel and there's a piece of shit £100 bike?
don;t think people are idiots for not having cable locks: they offer no protection from an half-equipped thief.
good to hear people are confident in the atomics.

agree re the g-lock, but the BiKLOX looks great.
if you undo the crank it's unlikely you'll get it off the spindle. if you manage to the bike is still effectively immobilized by the device cutting across the spokes.

Well obviously there aren't good stats on this but I just feel a cable lock is a light visual deterrent wheras the atomic prevents the actual theft (but not damage). Visual is very important when tea leafs are scoping your bike out...

^ fair enough, but I'd worry that it still has all the issues of being low visibility therefore "tempting" someone and drawing attention. One reason why kryptos work I think is their bright well known colours (oh - an orange/yellow barrel, won't bother with that one).

OMG I fucking wish I entered now.

I had an what I thought was a mediocre idea as I expected extremely high standards of entries. My idea would have rinsed those.

Do tell?

Peckham has one of the loveliest locking locations in London's famous London.

anyone reccomend a good place to buy locks?

here or the other thread

pretty much perfect locking? Although still some very flashy parts unprotected

Does proximity to security paste count for anything or is it necessary for it to actually be on the bike?

Also, the box on the other side of the fence behind the rear wheel is marked 'POISON'. Am sure this helps in some way.

Does proximity to security paste count for anything or is it necessary for it to actually be on the bike?

Also, the box on the other side of the fence behind the rear wheel is marked 'POISON'. Am sure this helps in some way.

If they tried to steal your rear wheel they would probably slip in that dog shit so I'd say great place to park up!!

If they tried to steal your rear wheel they would probably slip in that dog shit so I'd say great place to park up!!

Also mad skills to whatever dog managed to shit there.

It was probably deposited by the same tramp who was inside the railings pissing against the tree the previous morning.

pretty much perfect locking?

Including the rozzers driving past!

What's that chainring/crankset? Any idea?

there was one on sale here recently
it's a number not a name i think

Also mad skills to whatever dog managed to shit there.

It was probably deposited by the same tramp who was inside the railings pissing against the tree the previous morning.

if he's really drunk late afternoon he might apply the anti theft paste for you
or you could pay him to sit there and watch your bike, like in those gangster movies in 1970's new york or modern day merseyside

^^^ 44rn on sugino 75's it looks like

^^^ 44rn on sugino 75's it looks like

Cheers

Ways to lock your tree

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If the pot is worth more than the tree that trees a goner.

Of the two bikes shown locked above.. which is using the lock the correct way around?

Having the tumbler part of the lock against the fixing.

Or having it against the frame?

My theory is having it against the frame is better because its provides less practical leverage if you were to force the lock open and an increased likelyhood of damaging the bike making it less valuable to sell onwards.

Is there an agreed stance on this?

I try to point it away from the easiest access point, so behind a fence or whatever if possible.

I try to have mine pointed down as well to prevent the lock barrel filling with water in the rain and so that it is harder to access.

I'm wondering if having an unridable saddle height would be a good anti-theft technique, especially if you set it with a pitlock.

Although TBH I suppose you'd be better off just taking the saddle and seatpost with you, which is what I often do.