Cycling Photo Challenge - Entries and Chat

[GM]

See, it's all the rage, men and women alike.

Come on chaps keep up and show us your toes.

I've got my toe nails painted.............with toe nail fungal lacquer!

 

[Gravity Aided]

 

[BigAl68]

Sad to see this when I got in this morning..

I think @Hill Wimp needs to send me one of her team to put the place into lock down

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Sad to see this when I got in this morning..
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I think @Hill Wimp needs to send me one of her team to put the place into lock down

They are assuming that it is a member of staff that is doing the theft which may not necessarily be the case unless you work on a secure site.
The site my husband now works on looks secure at first case, but I have never had to show any identification or even talk to the security guard to get onto the site, though I always say hello to them in never challenged. Only vehicles have to have passes and be swiped in and out. As a pedestrian or cyclist I can go about unchallenged and easily access the cycle parking area and frequently did (past tense due to obvious issues). Whilst I appreciate this may not be the case, it is just a thought!

 

[Hill Wimp]

I have 30,000 of them all with varying skills.

Who would you like ?

 

[BigAl68]

They are assuming that it is a member of staff that is doing the theft which may not necessarily be the case unless you work on a secure site.
The site my husband now works on looks secure at first case, but I have never had to show any identification or even talk to the security guard to get onto the site, though I always say hello to them in never challenged. Only vehicles have to have passes and be swiped in and out. As a pedestrian or cyclist I can go about unchallenged and easily access the cycle parking area and frequently did (past tense due to obvious issues). Whilst I appreciate this may not be the case, it is just a thought!

It is a secure indoor bike park behind two sets of pass controlled doors. I don't have dust caps but it looks as if I will need to remove my lights and cheap computer every morning from now on.

 

[BigAl68]

I have 30,000 of them all with varying skills.

Who would you like ?

Anyone who is free or you can spare. Possibly someone small who could hide in the lockers and apprehend the evil dust cap steeling person. I would think these must have been those posh dust caps as we have a number of fixie hipsters bikes in this bike park.

 

[summerdays]

I've always removed my lights and computer at work despite needing a card to get into the cage, but I see others leaving them on their bikes. I've also walked into the cage as someone is coming out without showing my pass or knowing them. I just don't want to take the risk, and I guess it's just habit.

 

[BigAl68]

I have always left everything on the bike for the past 4 years of working at the hospital and now find it sad that someone thinks they can take other members of staffs things. I have dropped things before and find a note on the door to changing rooms asking if you have lost something but one bad apple and all that.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

It is a secure indoor bike park behind two sets of pass controlled doors. I don't have dust caps but it looks as if I will need to remove my lights and cheap computer every morning from now on.

Then they are sad but probably had a grudge against the person concerned rather than anything else. I have to say I always removed anything easily removable including the pump, but never my dust caps or light mountings. That is taking it too far. Next you will have to take the pannier rack off and padlock the seat to the bike as well! Mind you I always use two different style of locks as well.

 

[summerdays]

I have always left everything on the bike for the past 4 years of working at the hospital and now find it sad that someone thinks they can take other members of staffs things. I have dropped things before and find a note on the door to changing rooms asking if you have lost something but one bad apple and all that.

I've dropped things including my ID badge, presumably I followed someone into the building that day.

 

[coffeejo]

Then they are sad but probably had a grudge against the person concerned rather than anything else. I have to say I always removed anything easily removable including the pump, but never my dust caps or light mountings. That is taking it too far. Next you will have to take the pannier rack off and padlock the seat to the bike as well! Mind you I always use two different style of locks as well.

If I have to go to the hospital or leave my bike at the train station, I do use a long cable to secure my panniers and rack pack, and use two locks to secure the wheels and frame, as they're notorious theft spots. I work on the principle that someone else's bike won't be as well secured and is therefore an easier target. Hopefully...

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

If I have to go to the hospital or leave my bike at the train station, I do use a long cable to secure my panniers and rack pack, and use two locks to secure the wheels and frame, as they're notorious theft spots. I work on the principle that someone else's bike won't be as well secured and is therefore an easier target. Hopefully...

luckily I don't do train stations... as for hospitals, well the big one around here is that bad that that the staff have their own pin coded door for a bike lock and it is surrounded but not accessible from (as in glass windows and walls) by 2 sides of a corridor that everyone walks along, 2 sides by office buildings only daylight into them from there, and covered by at least 5 cameras. Finding the way in is interesting, feels like you are going to the bins... a staff member gave me the pin code for the door ages ago because the area is that bad. The other hospital (9-5, minors A&E local hospital) I routinely visit, there is no bike parking at all but the area is that good that I only take the 2 locks and could leave anything on the bike I wanted really. I change the bike to the railings alongside the entrance. Would I leave the trike there - probably not, but my road bike I don't mind.

 

[Hill Wimp]

It happens in my building too. I have lost lights and a bidon and i know of a wheel theft too and we have 24/7 security guards.

Thing is these things are easily stopped with a bit of ingenuity and effort from the local police if its a continuing problem.

Shouldn't be a fact of daily life and its a sad indictment when people nick dust caps for heavens sake.

 

[TVC]

Bikes shouldn't have dust caps. just saying.