stiggs

to my u-lock on a quick jount to trader joes, after my last theft i am diligent about locking up no matter where, well i dared it, ran in for milk and a bottle of wine, the lines were slow (the last rush)...
10 min later came out to the bike rack and my bike was sittin there waiting for me to pedal home

cerewa

Never done this with trader joe's, but once I forgot my lock when going to the grocery store, and took my bike in and left it in view of the people at the front of the store. (this was actually after they told me I couldn't just wheel it around the store. I didn't really care as long as it was in the store, not outside.)

I also accidentally took my bike to the movie theater without a lock and left it with their front desk during the movie.

vik 

I thought I forgot the keys to my heavy duty chain lock the other day [turns out I had them after all!] anyways I still had two long cables that I use to secure my wheels and other bikes so I ran them all over the place and then tucked the unlocked ends into my Freeloaders on the Big Dummy. At least at a quick glance the bike looked reasonably secured.

wahoonc

Forgetting keys and locks is one of the reasons I spend the money for the Dutch style wheel locks and optional chains. They can be mounted on most bikes, several of mine came with the inserts for attaching them already in place You can't take the key out until you lock it. For higher risk areas I will carry a U lock too.

Aaron

Rob_E

Nice. I didn't realize the key had to stay in the lock when unlocked. I can see that being handy. Although I can also see an opportunity for mischief if someone doesn't bother to engage the wheel lock, only to find that someone else has and has taken the key with them.

How do these locks fasten to the bike? I was originally thinking this was the weak link in the lock, but then I realized that a wheel with an unattached lock is just as unrideable, and the wheel would probably still be unable to be removed if the lock were placed correctly.

I've been planning on getting these if/when I upgrade my wheels to a dynamo hub or an IGH.

I keep an extra bike lock key at work, just in case I get there and realize I forgot my key. I've considered hiding a lock key and maybe a house key inside the tubing of the bike, but I've pretty much determined that the easiest place to access the key would be by removing the seat, which would mean the key would be readily found if the seat were stolen. Anywhere else and I wouldn't be able to get at the key myself without tools, which I would probably need to get into my house to get, which means the house key would be of no use, and I have a spare bike lock key in the house, too...

wahoonc

I always lock mine when I am away from it, even at home. They attach to the seat stays. A lot of the commuter oriented bikes come with the braze ons already on the underside of the seat stay for a bolt on fit. My Redline R530 came with them and I know that the Breezers do too. If you don't have the braze on's the Axa lock comes with a little stainless steel clamp that wraps around the seat stay and pins inside the lock housing. They also make some type of adapter that will allow it to mount on the cantilever studs.

Aaron

alba-ny

I was going ot suggest that lock too. My bike came with one (I made sure) and I LOVE never forgetting my keys.

I doubt *knock on wood* that I'll ever leave them in accidentally allowing for mischief because I keep my chain and U lock keys on that ring. If I am anyplace that mischief would occur my bike would definitely be locked anyway.

I suppose you could also try to make a habit of leaving your keys on your bike rather than getting a wheel lock. I always put a giant safety pin on my keychains anyway, so I'd clip that to the seat rails or something. Still not foolproof though.

wahoonc

Here is a crappy picture of the installed lock on my Redline R530.

Aaron