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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The Good Lord Smites Bike Thieves
I’m a huge fan of Yehuda Moon, and last Friday evening I started doodling bike stuff on a napkin in a restaurant – just to keep Daughter entertained.
What I came up with was this (now re-drawn – I don’t routinely take colouring
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Integrated U-Lock?
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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How To LockYourBike[.co.uk] Video
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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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Carrera Bikes - Are They Honey Traps, @carltonreid ?
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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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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