Bicycle parking brake

[Randy Butternubs]

I spotted this on the brake cable of a trike a while ago and thought it would be pretty handy to stop a bicycle squirming around when lent against something. I've tried rubber bands and such over the brake lever but find they quickly perish from UV.

Does anyone know where to get one of these or what it's called? Google has failed me.

 

[flake99please]

Why not buy a regular brake lever with locking function?

 

[Blue Hills]

You could use a ball bungee.

Google image it.

Seems to work.

 

[Dave 123]

Our Thorn tandem has one on it made by Hope. It's great.
I can't seem to find the product to give you a link, sorry.

Alternatively, just buy a Velcro strap and wrap it round the bar and brake lever.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Why not just try to hook the handlebars on something to prevent the bike making a run for it?

 

[John the Monkey]

I used to use a velcro strap (I think it was from a pump bracket) back when I took a full size bike on the train.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Scrunchie does it for me. Like the idea of a colour matched ball bungee though.

 

[screenman]

Odd, in 50 years of cycling I have never needed a parking brake, I am surely missing something.

 

[tyred]

I do use the velcro strap on brake lever with a loaded touring bike. I've never felt the need with an unladen bike.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Spare toeclip strap.

 

[mjr]

Odd, in 50 years of cycling I have never needed a parking brake, I am surely missing something.

Bungee balls, apparently!

 

[Poacher]

Odd, in 50 years of cycling I have never needed a parking brake, I am surely missing something.

Yebbut you live in Lincolnshire - it's flat, innit!

 

[screenman]

Bungee balls, apparently!

Who you calling names?

 

[screenman]

Yebbut you live in Lincolnshire - it's flat, innit!

Have you rode a bike in the Wolds? I have but there again I have never parked on one a hill though.

 

[rrarider]

When I put! my bike on a ferry for example, I used a toestrap to stop it moving about. I also used a rubber bungee round the top tube and the rail on the wall of the car deck.