Originally Posted by
aley
The link above has a photo of a bike locked to one - you put the head tube against the horizontal bar of the rack, which should position your down tube somewhere close to the angled part of the coat hanger. Use a U-lock to lock both the wheel and the down tube to the coat hanger.
Noted.
The rack I'm complaining about has an advertising panel immediately above the horizontal bar. If memory serves me correctly, my bars bash into that panel before my frame is close enough to the coat hanger to lock up the bike.
The advertising panel is for a local LBS...