If you lock your bike, be sure you have a key

[subaqua]

The combination can be found and the lock opened in about ten seconds.

You smokin a fag as well !

 

[Saluki]

I need a new lock , put mine on the ground while i was changing wheels and bent the key , when i turned it the key has snapped in the lock

Pop over. We'll make you a cuppa

 

[Milkfloat]

Luckily the OP has no idea how to secure a bike. If he had done a proper job he would still be walking

 

[Levo-Lon]

Sometimes Jo the shyte bag fits a lock to your bike for a laugh...

I tend to use a combo..as I forget things

 

[mjr]

Luckily the OP has no idea how to secure a bike. If he had done a proper job he would still be walking

Hardly looks like crime central there, though... although he did say it was Lincolnshire IIRC

 

[Drago]

A real man would've simply ripped the post from the ground.

 

[Welsh wheels]

I locked my bike to a post in remotest quietest rural Lincolnshire while I went up the footpath to see the (disappointing) coastal view. The penny soon dropped that I'd left the key at home. 70 miles away.
Very luckily for me the post wasn't that high, and the lock not through the wheel, so i managed to lift it free (pic 1) and wrap the lock behind the saddle and out of the way (pic 2). A lucky escape indeed.
Don't do like me, kids, take your keys with you
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You were lucky there, that would have been quite the walk home. Not quite the same, but once I tried to unlock my bike and my key snapped in the D lock.I had to saw through my own lock to free my bike. I felt very conspicuous.

 

[Welsh wheels]

A real man would've simply ripped the post from the ground.

No, a real man would have chewed through the lock with his teeth.

 

[robjh]

Hardly looks like crime central there, though... although he did say it was Lincolnshire IIRC

It was actually over the border in Lincs, but only just. Almost your neck of the woods in fact

 

[annedonnelly]

I did that with a car steering wheel lock once. Locked up 30 miles from home and key on the keyring for a different car. Luckily people were kind enough to give me lifts home and back to rescue the car.

Always good to have locks that you need to lock with the key

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Lucky escape!
My bike locks need a key to lock, so I'm good.
Btw, that cable lock in no good, thieves cut though them like butter with simple cable cutters.
Damhik

 

[Tim Hall]

<cough>paging @User10571 </cough>

 

[robjh]

I did that with a car steering wheel lock once. Locked up 30 miles from home and key on the keyring for a different car. Luckily people were kind enough to give me lifts home and back to rescue the car.

Always good to have locks that you need to lock with the key

Many years ago we locked our car keys inside our car (not hard to do in those pre-central locking days). We were staying at my parents-in-law's pub, where a quick word by them at the bar produced a number of characters who were mysteriously adept at opening car doors with bent coathangers.

 

[robjh]

Lucky escape!
My bike locks need a key to lock, so I'm good.
Btw, that cable lock in no good, thieves cut though them like butter with simple cable cutters.
Damhik

The cable lock's better than nothing though Pat - though as I proved, it all depends what you lock it to

 

[I like Skol]

Twice I have parked my car at the shops with the roof off (ragtop Landrover) and gone shopping while leaving the keys hung in the ignition, not in respectable areas either! Both times I came back to find everything just where I left it..... phew!