Do you ever forget to lock your bike

[I like Skol]

Once left the garage open for a week, filled with thousands of $ Bike stuff & tools.

Presumably you mean 'unlocked' for a week, or are we really talking about door swung open and all contents on view while you buggered off for a week?

 

[Levo-Lon]

I wont leave a bike unattended, and it will be locked. If I have too.
I leave my lock at work as it's a motorcycle one, weighs rather a lot

 

[MichaelW2]

I left the bike unlocked last month. Lucky escape to find it still on the bike rack.

 

[Milzy]

Presumably you mean 'unlocked' for a week, or are we really talking about door swung open and all contents on view while you buggered off for a week?

lol just unlocked. Turned the key and was like shhhhh..

 

[ColinJ]

Presumably you mean 'unlocked' for a week, or are we really talking about door swung open and all contents on view while you buggered off for a week?

I once left my front door locked but open for nearly 12 hours! I had been in a hurry to get my lift to work and hadn't quite pulled the door shut when I locked it. The door had been pushed or blown open while I was out. It was a bit nerve-wracking wandering round the house checking that everything was still there. It was!

 

[8mph]

I lock the bike then leave my gloves on the rear rack!

 

[Blue Hills]

I think it near impossible that I'd forget to lock my bike - I virtually always carry a lock (often two) of some description.

I have left the keys in my front door and also once or twice left the front door unclosed at night - fortunately I live in an area of London where I can (usually) count on getting away with this.

That said I did once leave an expensive £100 plus Minoura worksand outside my garage one night - garage separate from house. The last I saw of that.

I know someone who had a bike nicked from Lewisham marketplace.

Asked him if it was locked

"with a piece of string" he said.

I would have thought nothing would have been better/less noticable than that.

 

[craigwend]

Once to cut a long story (which I've told before) on a visit to the dentist I'd forgot my lock, so deter thieves I undid my front quick release... Forgot until I'd got all the way hame as i eased my forks up onto the drive as I rode onto it... Wheel dropped out I stopped very abruptly ( ' luckily' my jaw was numb) my wheel unlike me didn't stop until it hit my garage door at the end of the drive...

 

[Starchivore]

Hasn't happened to me.

However a relative of mine has a front-door that was never really used. One time recently, when looking to let out a guest through the front (in the north that is when you want to be really fancy), she realised it was unlocked. By her estimation that front door had been unlocked for around four months

 

[Blue Hills]

One time recently, when looking to let out a guest through the front (in the north that is when you want to be really fancy),

and make sure they pass a bowl of fruit with everyone inside looking the picture of health?