Coffee shop security

[cubey]

So your out for a solo ride and you spot a cafe or coffee shop, how do you secure the bike?

 

[jayonabike]

Small 'cafe' lock

 

[jayonabike]

Small enough to fit in your jersey pocket

 

[MikeG]

Pick your cafes. Park it where you can see it.

 

[Sandra6]

Ask if I can take it inside?

 

[Venod]

I thought this thread was going to be about Coffee Shop Bouncers, like a door man at Bettys, (overpriced pretentious cafe in York and Harrogate for our foreign readers)

 

[Globalti]

If it's a good cafe there will be other patrons there, cyclists or not, who you can ask to keep an eye on the bike while you nip inside.

We also use one of these:

 

[cyberknight]

Small enough to fit in your jersey pocket
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I have the same lock

 

[cyberknight]

Pick your cafes. Park it where you can see it.

park next to more expensive bikes that are not locked , saw a trek madone project one left outside a cafe once unlocked.

 

[ianrauk]

If it's a good cafe there will be other patrons there, cyclists or not, who you can ask to keep an eye on the bike while you nip inside.

We also use one of these:

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Have the same served me well

 

[DCLane]

One of these - a Safeman lock:

 

[LarryDuff]

If it's a good cafe there will be other patrons there, cyclists or not, who you can ask to keep an eye on the bike while you nip inside.

We also use one of these:

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[LarryDuff]

I got one of those too.

 

[Tim Hall]

Have the same served me well

That and taking an off duty Met Police officer with you.

 

[Welsh wheels]

I usually sit outside and put the bike in the cafe garden where I can see it. Works for me.