This Bike Is Not Locked!
Seen in Whitley Bay last weekend - a bike with a nice big lock:
Nice sensible bike - pannier bags and a basket at the front. Ideal for shopping trips.
And the owner has secured it to these nice wibbly-wobbly bike stands.
You can probably see the problem though, can’t you? That lock is just HUGE, and it only goes around the outside of the frame, rather than passing through any of the frame’s triangles. And the quick release wheels are just left there for the taking.
When the owner got back, I explained all this, and demonstrated that I could get the lock off the bike simply by passing the handlebars & front wheel through its massive loop.
She’ll be using a different locking method in future!
I saw a couple of youths steal a bike from central Greenwich because the D-Lock hadn’t been correctly attached and could simply be slipped off. The speed they did it was incredible, and even after sending the fuzz hurtling after them a few seconds later they didn’t get caught. Bad times.
Yes, I mock these people too, but I’ve done it twice in the last few weeks at work by double-threading my chain lock to take up the slack and accidentally looping it back the same way. Mind you, it was in a locked bike cage at the time. Never happened before I got the chain lock. Must be a defective design.
Or maybe I need my morning coffee BEFORE my ride to work. |-( zzz
Anyone can have an off-day. But IMHO, most people are honest, so the occasional lapse will mostly go unnoticed.
Woa! @Amoeba - what’s going on with that avatar of yours??