badly locked bikes

[gaz]

Saw a bike at my local tramstop the other day, they had locked the bike to a bike stand, but used there d-lock through the front tyre and around the front forks. looking at it. all you have to do is un-do the quick release, and you have a full bike with out a front wheel. knowing my local area and the kids that hang around that tram stop, it won't be there for long!

(no pics sorry)

 

[Grendel]

I had a picture of a single wheel securely locked up (sans bike) at Tesco in Dumarton Road. I'll try and find it.

 

[HLaB]

Alarmingly since Cameron's bike got nicked Ive seen a couple of bikes locked to 2 ft bollards!

 

[thomas]

I've seen a bit that had a dlock through the front wheel to the frame...but it didn't go onto the bike stand. You could just pick the bike up and walk away

Admittedly, the bike didn't have a chain, so it was obviously abandoned by an old student

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Alarmingly since Cameron's bike got nicked Ive seen a couple of bikes locked to 2 ft bollards!

You see so many of those - might as well put a 'FREE BIKE' sign on it!

 

[purplepolly]

A bloke in an office where I once worked had his bike nicked from the railings outside. He swears that they managed to open his lock, steal his bike, and then lock his lock (!) back to the railiings.

I saw a brompton locked to railings in a front garden in York a few months ago with a cable lock around the front stem. It was obviously long enough to take off over the handlebars.

 

[garrilla]

When I dropped my son off at uni we took his bike off the back of the car and I told him to go an lock it to some sheffield stands we had driven past. After unloading his gear into his college room we went off to find some lunch and passed these stands. I couldn't help but look and saw he had put his lock through both wheels but around the stand. I quickly demonstrated how easy it was to lift it off the stand without any of the people around blinking an eyelid.

A good thing it happened there and then. He wont forget now. Its amzing how the brightest people can also be the dimmest!

 

[chap]

Bike theft in Oxbridge

When I dropped my son off at uni we took his bike off the back of the car and I told him to go an lock it to some sheffield stands we had driven past. After unloading his gear into his college room we went off to find some lunch and passed these stands. I couldn't help but look and saw he had put his lock through both wheels but around the stand. I quickly demonstrated how easy it was to lift it off the stand without any of the people around blinking an eyelid.

A good thing it happened there and then. He wont forget now. Its amzing how the brightest people can also be the dimmest!

If you're the chap whose son is at Oxford, you'd do well to reinforce this fact. Since bike theft is particularly high in those cities: it's the locals they don't like thee

 

[theboytaylor]

I reckon I could probably get myself a bike a week by just removing the parts of the other bikes where I park up that are vulnerable: usually a whole array of bikes with only one wheel locked, qr saddles and seatposts left on, locks fastened to one fork or just the frame, etc, etc.

The bike I'd end up with would look pretty f'ing ugly, mind!!

 

[levad]

If you're the chap whose son is at Oxford, you'd do well to reinforce this fact. Since bike theft is particularly high in those cities: it's the locals they don't like thee

You're surely not referring to the "Town and Gown" divide are you?