Can the owner of a bicycle with red, flowery bags pleases return to the car park...........

[mjr]

Compare the number of UK car bombs with bike bombs and it's obvious it's not the real reason.

 

[mjr]

Depends on the council...

I've tried to clarify, but it still falls below the amount of cycle parking they require other developers to provide now. How about yours?

 

[jugglingphil]

next time cycle parking is full, take your bike to the security office and ask them to guard it for you

 

[subaqua]

the usual one is elfensayftee reasons. so i ask them to describe the risks that require that control measure.

Bike bombs indeed. best stop me walking round with my panniers or rucksack

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Security warning....

 

[w00hoo_kent]

The man could not tell me of any secure place to lock a bicycle nearby.

Your problem there was using the word 'secure' the Uni at the bottom of the hill (if you were parking a car 3m away I'm guessing you were near the observatory) has loads* of cycle parking, one of which I had a bike stolen from only 2 years ago :-) Had some lovely CCTV footage of it being ridden off.

*In the order of 60 hoops, plus some mobile wheel bender things and the mythical 'secure cage parking' with the waiting list longer than the Thames.

 

[Drago]

Security reasons my bottom. A bomb in bike rack is just as dangerous as one on railings

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Your problem there was using the word 'secure' the Uni at the bottom of the hill (if you were parking a car 3m away I'm guessing you were near the observatory) has loads* of cycle parking, one of which I had a bike stolen from only 2 years ago :-) Had some lovely CCTV footage of it being ridden off.

*In the order of 60 hoops, plus some mobile wheel bender things and the mythical 'secure cage parking' with the waiting list longer than the Thames.

The 2 stands at the top gates and the 3 stands near the Observatory weren't there at the time. They're a fairly recent addition. The 200 parking spaces have not been affected. (The only ones were a set of wheel benders by the tennis courts. And you can't cycle to them.)

It's a horrible feeling having your bike nicked and I'm not sure being able to watch it happening on CCTV without being able to do anything about it helps an awful lot.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

The 2 stands at the top gates and the 3 stands near the Observatory weren't there at the time. They're a fairly recent addition. The 200 parking spaces have not been affected. (The only ones were a set of wheel benders by the tennis courts. And you can't cycle to them.)

It's a horrible feeling having your bike nicked and I'm not sure being able to watch it happening on CCTV without being able to do anything about it helps an awful lot.

Indeed. I can't remember the last time I left my bike locked up in public since. Fortunately for work I have access to a restricted area, it's down a flight of stairs (and even in there the bike is secured with an Abus Chain and HD Oxford U Lock) I'm not 'supposed' to put it there (I've been told 'no bikes inside the buildings' by the guy carrying his Brompton to his desk) but I've been leaving it there for the best part of 2 years now and if called on it retort that if they can supply cycle parking that is secure, I'll use it. We still regularly get bikes stolen from site (although no idea what security they are using). We are about to be relocated to Eltham, where I think my bike will have to start chancing it outdoors. I'm already pondering which locks to buy (the ones I'm currently using won't hack it as far as I'm concerned.)

Our security don't seem to get grumpy about bikes chained to railings, although it doesn't happen very often.

 

[Cyclist33]

It's not a Tannoy unless it's made by Tannoy!!

It's a PA system.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

It's not a Tannoy unless it's made by Tannoy!!

It's a PA system.

Made out of an old hoover?

 

[Fnaar]

Security warning....

01:38

 

[mjr]

It's not a Tannoy unless it's made by Tannoy!!

It's a PA system.

No, call it a Tannoy! Commit genericide! An end to monopoly trademarks! Anarchy in the UK!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

No, call it a Tannoy! Commit genericide! An end to monopoly trademarks! Anarchy in the UK!

But, but, but you could claim the monopoly on Ray guns!

 

[Brains]

I thought it was time for the story of Watchmaker Court in St John St in Clerkenwell, London to be told again.
At that time the building was controlled by a single large shipping company, and the railings were not as in the picture below (recent Google maps)
A well known courier locked his bike to the railings of the building whilst delivering a package
The security guard removed the lock with bolt cutters and took the bike
An 'frank discussion' ensued

The courier therefore arranged for all the railings around the building to be removed (on a Friday night before a Bank Holiday)
This left a 3 meter hole on the pavement, which the company had to pay to get boarded over, over the bank holiday, at God knows what cost
'Somebody' then had the railings replaced
These new railings were duly removed overnight
Thousands spent on re-boarding
Replace railing installed looking far more basic that the original nice railings and their replacements
The ones in the recent picture are either the third or fourth final replacement, look really boring in place of what was there before.
and the cost to the company ?, who knows, but I'd guess well in excess of £100K and maybe twice that.