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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Quick! To Darlington!
Does riding a traditional British roadster count as Ironman training? When you’re riding to the train station & back?
Depends on your thinking really. I had just run 14 miles, this is a heavy bike, and the headwind on the way in was totally relentless.
So I’m logging it!
Workout:
Type: Cycle
Date: 03/19/2010
Total Time: 2:00:00.00
Calories: 1168
Distance: 24...
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Missing Item?
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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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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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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Bike Racks - Am I Missing The Point?
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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Is This Bike Locked?
Prizes for spotting the deliberate mistakes with this bike!
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Locked Bikes In London
When I was in That London the other week, I took some photos of locked bikes around Angel tube station,
Firstly, here’s a picture of one way to stop your bike being pinched. Have a bike that no-one would want to buy. Actually, it’s just the
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