Remember the way to protect your bike?
Use a good quality, small U-lock that’s very difficult to attack by jacking. Just like this, that I saw in Ashington yesterday:
That’d be a security failure then.
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Use A Good Quality Lock
How To Make One Usable Bike From Two Perfectly Good Ones…
Pick a high crime area, and use a single mini U-lock to tether two bikes, while you head off for dinner.
(via Cyclelicious )
When you return, the chances are that the front wheels of both bikes will be missing, though with any luck you’ll still have the rear ones. So if you can somehow manage...
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I Was Only Away For A Second!
While I was walking through town today, I saw a guy ride up & park his bike outside a shop before popping inside. He was just nipping in to pick something up, so didn’t bother to lock it:
This is a mistake that people frequently make (just t
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Spot The Deliberate Mistake
Free bike, anyone?
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How To LockYourBike[.co.uk] Video
![How To LockYourBike[.co.uk] Video](http://img.youtube.com/vi/r6xnkEkP2WY/2.jpg)
Here’s a great video by Carlton Reid, produced for Northumbria Police. It shows genuine bikes being stolen by genuine thieves, as well as some tip-top advice for how to Lock Your Bike and avoid this pain yourself:
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Spot The Deliberate Mistake
On the way home tonight, I stopped off to buy some flowers for my Beautiful Wife. Outside the shop I saw this locked up – looks like maybe last year’s model of either the Focus Cayo 105 Tripple, the Cayo Ultegra, or at a push, the Cayo Pro.
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Hal Grades Your Locking.
Hal, the mechanic at Bicycle Habitat in New York City is an expert in how to properly lock your bike. In this funny and very informative video Hal walks around the neighborhood and points out common mistakes people make in locking their bikes. How well would you do? Watch and learn!
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Hal Grades Your Locking
I’ve been waiting for a version of this excellent StreetFilms vid to appear on YouTube for a while . . . and here it is. Watch and learn!
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Lock ALL Of Your Bike
When I was in That London yesterday, I acted like the worst kind of tourist, photographing pretty much every bike I saw.
Looking at the huge number of bikes locked up to railings, what I generally saw was a sorry tale of half-baked efforts:
Actually
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Sheldon Brown Locking Method: Potential Flaw?
Remember the Sheldon Brown Locking Method? This one:
Well, I thought this article on Commute By Bike showed a potential flaw in Sheldon’s system:
Basically, what the thief’s done is cut every single one of the spokes so they can take the
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