Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
The comment by Sharpshin above reminded me that on one trip I saw a cable that been cut and left.
I could not figure out why they bothered to cut the cable, they should have been able to lift the bike and cable off of the parking meter, as the post was pretty short.
Probably ran the cable through the back wheel and frame, meaning even if you lifted it off, if you didn't have a truck or van to toss it in, it is still fairly hard to steal.
It is how I locked my bike up everywhere outside of Reykjavik in Iceland, and many areas in the Netherlands and Belgium. In fact, nothing but a rear wheel lock was rather ubiquitous in those last two countries.