Bike Security

We have ‘em here too: I stopped to chat to this guy on Saturday - everything that you’d want from a policeman on ‘the beat’: friendly, approachable, probably quite hard to outrun if you’re a bad’un, and on a bike. He was also quite knowledgeable about local bike shops and good routes from A to...
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One of my Twitter buddies (actually that doesn’t sound too good - can we say correspondant instead?), @carltonreid sent me a couple of photos of Carrera bikes in various states of being badly locked. First up, there was this one, ’secured&#
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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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I was flicking through some of the great Creative Commons licensed photos on Flickr for some suitable bike chain images (and believe me, there are some great ones . . . ), when I came across this photo by Bluejoh. If that isn’t begging for some sort of caption contest, I don’t know what...
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They’re somewhere to park and lock your bike, aren’t they? You can buy them pretty much off the shelf from a bunch of companies that bang them out by the thousand to a range of standard designs. And when things are produced in volumes like that, they tend to be pretty inexpensive. Trust me, I know...
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This made me laugh today - it was on Copenhagenize.com, and in a way sums up how it feels to ride to the shops instead of walking or driving: I don’t know if you think like me, but I was surprised by the second half - I thought the bike was going to disappear from...
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I’m sure this question’s been asked and answered before, but I got put on the spot in a meeting today: What sort of bike should people have for riding to work? Just to be clear about this - we’re talking about the 75% of people at the organisation I was visiting, who live within 5 miles...
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Prizes for spotting the deliberate mistakes with this bike!
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So here’s how I generally lock my Sturdy Commuting Bike (click to enlarge): Essentially, this is Sheldon Brown’s method, using a D-Lock (or, if you like, U-Lock) to secure the rear wheel of the bike to a good sturdy, immovable object. Said
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