new locking method discovered

Patter said:

I've just discovered a new & improved secure way to lock your bike.

Take one full-suspension BSO, length of chain[1] in plastic tubing & a padlock.
Put the chain around a sheffield stand and the stem, then padlock the ends
together.

To a casual observer it will look locked.

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*shakes head in disbelief*

I have seen U-lock around the seat post on a reasonably priced bike.

However at work where many people leave locks, someone "locks" up their
bike with other peoples locks by looping the lock over their own handle
bars. Some of my colleagues don't even bother doing that.

Martin.

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Patter wrote:
However at work where many people leave locks, someone "locks" up their
bike with other peoples locks by looping the lock over their own handle
bars. Some of my colleagues don't even bother doing that.

Martin.

One of my colleagues locked his bike up outside the pub with one of those
rope locks, looked nice and meaty and theif proof. He then realised he had
left his key at home (150 miles away). After a short moment for thought a
friend of mine yanked on it and pop - it opened up fine lol. So much for
expensive locks!

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Patter wrote:
However at work where many people leave locks, someone "locks" up their
bike with other peoples locks by looping the lock over their own handle
bars. Some of my colleagues don't even bother doing that.

Martin.

One of my colleagues locked his bike up outside the pub with one of those
rope locks, looked nice and meaty and theif proof. He then realised he had
left his key at home (150 miles away). After a short moment for thought a
friend of mine yanked on it and pop - it opened up fine lol. So much for
expensive locks!

He cycled 150 miles to the pub...respect!
Peter

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Patter wrote:
However at work where many people leave locks, someone "locks" up their
bike with other peoples locks by looping the lock over their own handle
bars. Some of my colleagues don't even bother doing that.

Martin.

One of my colleagues locked his bike up outside the pub with one of those
rope locks, looked nice and meaty and theif proof. He then realised he had
left his key at home (150 miles away). After a short moment for thought a
friend of mine yanked on it and pop - it opened up fine lol. So much for
expensive locks!

He cycled 150 miles to the pub...respect!

I hope he didn't drink to much alcohol before the 150 mile trip home.

Ziggy proclaimed to uk.rec.cycling ...

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He cycled 150 miles to the pub...respect!

I hope he didn't drink to much alcohol before the 150 mile trip home.

Students get desperate 😉

Just to clear up, he left his keys at his parents house miles away, not at
his flat locally 🙂

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Quoted message said:

I've just discovered a new & improved secure way to lock your bike.

Take one full-suspension BSO, length of chain[1] in plastic tubing & a
padlock. Put the chain around a sheffield stand and the stem, then
padlock the ends together.

*shakes head in disbelief*

[1] chain should be long enough to pass over the handlebars

Point is, that chain is more valuable than the BSO. This system means that
if some little toe-rag decides to half-inch the BSO, they don't have to
damage the valuable lock or chain to do so.

--
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;; If you're doing this for fun, do what seems fun. If you're
;; doing it for money, stop now.
;; Rainer Deyke

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[1] chain should be long enough to pass over the handlebars

Not if the would-be thief has an allen key in his pocket. :-)

Patter twisted the electrons to say:

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I've just discovered a new & improved secure way to lock your bike.

I remember seeing some BSO locked up on York campus which had a D-lock
round the seat tube. So far so good, however the pole the D-lock was
round was only waist high!
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Alistair Gunn wrote on 12/04/2007 14:04 +0100:

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Patter twisted the electrons to say:

Quoted message said:

I've just discovered a new & improved secure way to lock your bike.

I remember seeing some BSO locked up on York campus which had a D-lock
round the seat tube. So far so good, however the pole the D-lock was
round was only waist high!

In Market Harborough the Council has thoughtfully provided a nice wooden
cycle stand to lock you bike to. To stay in keeping with this, it is
suggested you lock your bike to it with a piece of string.
http://www.camcycle.org.uk/map/location/8734/

--
Tony

"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there
is no good evidence either way."
- Bertrand Russell

In article <[email hidden]>, Alistair Gunn
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Quoted message said:

Patter twisted the electrons to say:

Quoted message said:

I've just discovered a new & improved secure way to lock your bike.

I remember seeing some BSO locked up on York campus which had a D-lock
round the seat tube. So far so good, however the pole the D-lock was
round was only waist high!

That wasn't to lock it, it was just to stop it falling over.
There again, with the weight of some of those BSOs ...

Rob Morley twisted the electrons to say:

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In article <[email hidden]>, Alistair Gunn
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Quoted message said:

I remember seeing some BSO locked up on York campus which had a D-lock
round the seat tube. So far so good, however the pole the D-lock was
round was only waist high!

That wasn't to lock it, it was just to stop it falling over.
There again, with the weight of some of those BSOs ...

When you say "it" do you mean the BSO or the pole? <grins>
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These opinions might not even be mine ...
Let alone connected with my employer ...

In article <[email hidden]>, Alistair Gunn
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Quoted message said:

Rob Morley twisted the electrons to say:

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Alistair Gunn
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

I remember seeing some BSO locked up on York campus which had a D-lock
round the seat tube. So far so good, however the pole the D-lock was
round was only waist high!

That wasn't to lock it, it was just to stop it falling over.
There again, with the weight of some of those BSOs ...

When you say "it" do you mean the BSO or the pole? <grins>

Yes. :-)