stunt parking

[night rider]

trying to figure out what possible benefit or deterrent locking your bike in this unusual position there is to ward off undesirable attention in a railway station ? Watched him come off a train & immediately put it in that position, so it has not been moved....yet.

 

[Oldhippy]

Makes it easier for someone to steal the wheels I suppose.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

trying to figure out what possible benefit or deterrent locking your bike in this unusual position there is to ward off undesirable attention in a railway station ? Watched him come off a train & immediately put it in that position, so it has not been moved....yet.

Makes it easier for someone to steal the wheels I suppose.

But slightly harder to steal the saddle. I wonder if the rider had had a few saddles removed - with QR it would only have taken a couple of seconds the right way up.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Obviously an Australian import.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Possible benefits are: it's less likely to get accidentally locked to another bike's frame; it's more stable in that position so won't suffer frame damage from sliding down the Sheffield stand when a clumsy person squeezes their bike in beside it. Just me guessing though...

 

[T4tomo]

But slightly harder to steal the saddle. I wonder if the rider had had a few saddles removed - with QR it would only have taken a couple of seconds the right way up.

hmm but his wheels look like there are QR skewers not TA's so they a have made the front one very steal-able...

maybe as its such a drab colour its to help him identify it amongst all the other bikes.....

 

[Drago]

Its supposed to bring good luck.

 

[fossyant]

There's been a crash further down the bike trail rack ?




Upturned bikes on a trail as supposed to signal an incident.

 

[Arrowfoot]

The long handle bars is a safety concerns and this is actually safer?

 

[HMS_Dave]

The front wheel is a 0.5 second steal...

 

[Cycleops]

Why not just ask him?

 

[raleighnut]

It might well have been on the other side of the rail when it was locked up (and the right way up) before some 'scroat' was interupted in a theft

 

[Moon bunny]

It was a naughty bicycle on the train and it’s been left like that as a punishment, because you aren’t allowed to smack bicycles now.

 

[night rider]

Why not just ask him?

because we were both multitasking by being on phones at same time. Kinda rude just to butt in & interrupt our important conversions.

It might well have been on the other side of the rail when it was locked up (and the right way up) before some 'scroat' was interupted in a theft

nope. Straight off train, straight to rack. No interference.

Upturned bikes on a trail as supposed to signal an incident.

never knew that. Everydays a schoolday.

Its very rare to see any bike locked, in whatever position, at this location. Anyways. Its now gone & no evidence of discarded nuts & bolts or angle grinded chain loops, so shall assume owners strategy worked

 

[neil_merseyside]

Bizarrely I saw this thread and then saw one stored like this today on Chester station, I wasn't on the right platform to ask the very adjacent owner (or wheel thief?) why, though stability is a fair guess.