Originally Posted by grolby
Nonsense; the right way (i.e. most secure) way to lock a bike isn't a matter of opinion or personal taste. There are locks and means of using them that will lock your bike very securely, making a thief's work take some serious time and effort. Then there are locks and techniques for using them that enable a thief to make off with your bike in less than a minute.
Personal taste comes into lock solution and locking strategy to the extent that, for example, I don't want my bike to be stolen, but you don't really care that much if yours is. Aside from that kind of opinion, there is indeed a "right way." Because I don't want my bike to be stolen, I will lock it up correctly. If you don't really care... well, your call. But it's pretty easy to tell the difference between a bicycle that is securely locked and one that isn't.
The very fact that you had to caveat "the right way" implies that the binary usage of correct/incorrect or right/wrong is inappropriate to the situation. To then enter pluralism into the argument is rather self-defeating as you have practically stated that there are correct way
s to lock a bike.
The very simple fact is that there are a variety, regardless of size of variety, of way
s in which you can lock a bike which offer absolutly no compromise in security. For instance I could use five of Kryptonite's most effective locks to attach my bike to a Sheffield Stand. That wouldn't render my locking method incorrect simply because it doesn't have the magic approval of You, Sheldon Brown and ABH (evidently the venerable trinity of bike locking). Or I could lock a bike with a piece of string and an entire squadron of the Swiss Guard armed to the teeth and ordered to shoot bike theives on sight. Either fashion offers no compromise on security and now we're up to at least three ways. Would you like me to continue?