Bike Security

When I came out of the supermarket today, I noticed something odd about how the bike next to mine was locked up: Initially I thought that the bike wasn’t locked at all. Then I realised that the liquorice-stick cable lock was looped around a single spoke. Did you spot the other error though? Yes, that’s right - the...
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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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Flicking through my photos from Croatia, I came across this one of a bike parked up in Osijek: This bike was parked in the same location for several days, and I was left puzzling . . . Did the owner always park up int he same place, but having no saddle lock, take it with...
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First off, let me say that I like the Dutchess. Cannondale’s take on the classic ladies’ bike is full of the sort of design features that would normally not make it past the eyeball grabbing concept bike stage. I love the structural rear-mudguard, the fact that it comes with a rack as standard, and that...
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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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We took a walk around the retail end of Ashington today at lunch time to see how the businesses were doing, and what they were facing in terms of competition from the new Cylon Mothership Asda-Walmart store that opened this Monday. Passing through the bus station, I saw these: What are these? Well, look...
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Nope. I’m not suspicious at all. btw – do you want to buy a $50 bike?
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This is pretty cool. A U-lock integrated into the bike design. It enables you to lock the bike to something, or for those just-nipping-into-the-shop moments, to render it un-ridable, by locking the steering. It reminds me a little of those
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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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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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