Originally Posted by ryan_c
Man, there is this one a-hole who ALWAYS parks his bike the wrong way across the bike rack at the train station (parallel to the rack instead of perpendicular) thus taking up the majority of the rack... I would love to put an old funky lock on this persons bike... g-dammn MTB'er. This has seriously been driving me nuts, as I have occasionally been left with no rack space because this bike takes up 4-5 possible bike spots. It's either that or just leave a nasty note on the bike.
/drunken ramble
he´s probably parallel parking for better security as many bike racks only allow for locking up the front wheel. I used to do the same thing when I used to work at the University in Manchester (UK). I did take the front wheel off though so that did reduce the size of the final package. I did get some abuse for it from other cyclists but there was no way I was going to leave a 1000 dollar MTB locked up only by the front wheel. Although I didnt pay full price as I bought the bike 2nd hand, that bike was worth a lot to me as a poor student and the bike would have lasted a matter of hours only locked by a quick release front wheel.