I leave my bike in the basement at work. Not locked. There's usually anywhere from 15 to 25 other bikes, of which mine is kind of middle-of-the-road for value, and the building is secure (sorta...the bike room is open to the office, but the outside door near the bike room requires a keyfob from the outside...the front door is unlocked, but you have to navigate a reception area and a maze of cubicals to get to the bike room from there.) Our office headcount is 155, and any one of them could potentially steal my bike, but seriously, what would they do with it that would be worth risking their job. That said, my office is a pretty high-income environment, so the job is worth a fair bit.

Always lock it

Size of town doesn't matter.

My metropolis has 469 residents.

I live next door to a thief whose girlfriend has a pill habit.

I needed to use my truck for the first time in a few months tomorrow. Went out to make sure it would start.

It wouldn't.

Battery had been stolen.

Back on topic.

I lock my bikes in the living room----to the ring that I had installed coming out of the floor.

I have since also moved my porta-band, sawzall and the like into the gun safe. No future in giving a thief the tools to use.

My company provides bike lockers, so I lock my bike in one of those. At a previous job there wasn't a bike rack so I would just keep my bike in my cube.

The parking garage in my building is pass controlled and inside the parking garage there is a secured bike parking room with a pass controlled door lock requiring a fob.

your key fob is programmed to open the bike room door only if you have registered with the building management as a bike commuter.

At the moment there are only 3 keys that open that door.

I park my bike in there, I usually leave my helmet, gloves and rain gear in there.

i still lock the bike.

I'm like that. My office building has a passcode-controlled bike cage inside the parking garage. Inside the cage is a regular bike rack so you can lock your bike there for extra security. You'll need to register your bike with the building management.

The fact that the door opens with a simple passcode (4-digit number) is a loophole. For that reason, I always lock my bike to the rack when I park it there. I take my helmet and gloves with me.

AT home it's in the garage.

At work, I lock to a bike rack in the parking garage that is next to the attendant's booth.
All of the attendants know me well, they even called me one day when a tire "blew-out" just sitting there (because it scared them).

I always lock my bikes except at home where I store them in the basement. When I used to work at a college I occasional kept my bike overnight in my office. I would lock it to the steel shelves I had. Schools seem to be magnets for thieves and just about anything & everything imaginable has been stolen from there. We certainly didn't trust the underpaid overnight security guards to prevent thefts.

Wow... I can't imagine not locking my bike when I go shopping. It only takes one "incident" to make your day a very bad one. My workplace is thankfully a fairly safe place so there are no worries.

This is *slightly off topic, but I'm always amazed at people that lock their bikes but leave their helmets dangling on their handlebars. During my motorcycle riding days my buddy used to do the same thing. One day someone decided to take the helmet and he was basically stranded 50 miles from his home because he didn't have a helmet. Of course it's different for a cyclist but still...

I always lock up my bike no matter where I go.

Lock it. While in college, I learned just how quick your bike/components can be taken. You may trust your coworkers, but you never what maintenance guys, delivery guys, random pedestrians, etc will be in the area. Granted, I'm also a Criminology major, so I usually assume the worst of people.

It sits in the back of my classroom. No lock and the kids know I might go crazy if they touch it...

Mine sits in my office, unlocked.

I bring mine up one flight of stairs into our office building and just park it there in the hallway no need to lock it. I wouldn't feel right leaving it locked outside where I can see it. Cables can be cut. Where I used to work, I left it outside the building with a cable lock but it was visible from my desk.

I work in a small architecture office. We're all pretty much family. Bike sits right by my space. Even when I drive home on Wednesday evening and drive back in Thursday morning it usually sits there unlocked.

That is one tall seat pole you have there.

Unless my bike is in my office, which itself can be locked, I always lock my bike. When it's out of sight, it gets locked. No exceptions. Bike theft is mainly one of opportunity; when it's gone, it'll suck big time. You'll be kicking yourself why you didn't take the extra 1 minute to securely lock up what you depend on - or at least really like owning - on a daily basis.

I even lock the bikes up when they're in my garage (which is itself locked). I can't count the number of times I'm moving stuff in and out of the garage into the back yard (e.g. lawn mower), and so things in the garage are exposed for at least a few minutes. All it takes is for someone to cruise by, see your nice bike sitting along the wall, and scurry off with it.

Nothing will stop a determined thief (you got to see this!), but a lock will give you peace of mind for 99% of the time.

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I work in a manufacturing plant and a coworker who lived right down the road (most live 30-40 miles away) would leave his bike inside the building out of the way near my equipment. The problem wasn't thinking someone would steal the bike, I don't think anyone would do that from inside the building with so many people roaming around (outside on a vehicle is another matter, I'll have to try to figure out how to lock mine to the car on a trunk mounted rack when I get a decent bike.) The problem for him was more, he would find it on top of the box trailer that was docked inside the building or he would find it locked to a materials rack with some other lock that he didn't have a key for, etc.

We would only do that to a good coworker friend, as he was a good friend, and always got it back to him before we left (several of us up front worked 8 hour 5 days while he worked production 12 hour shift.)

It's just the plant horseplay that happens. You should always expect to find your personal stuff messed with. People have come back from lunch break to find everything in their workspace cleaned out and hidden, hanging 50 feet up in the rafters, etc. The more you made a fuss about it, the more you got messed with.

Ever since my first decent bike was stolen from the bike rack in front of my college dorm, I always use a good lock to secure my bike no matter where I go if it's to be left outside, within reach of the public. If I'm running errands, getting groceries, going out for a bite, etc., I will always bing and use a good lock. For riding to work, I'll lock it to the rack inside the parking garage at one job, but I'll just bring it in to sit in the back storage area at my other job (it's a secure room in the back of a bike shop, so no worries there). For me, my lock is like my helmet: chances are, I won't need it on any given day, but I'll be damned glad to have it on the day that I do.

We have decent bike racks where I work. The bike gets locked during the day.

As a side note, we have a recording CCTV in the bike rack area as well. I used to think it would offer some additional security, or at least a way to recover stolen property. Well, some tools were stolen from that area, and it turns out the CCTV footage was/is so bad you can hardly tell whether the thief was human or alien. I don't know if they did anything to improve the image quality, but the cameras or their placement haven't changed. Don't rely on any help from CCTV unless you have seen actual sample pics yourself.

Consequences of having longer legs and shorter torso. It's a 56 and anything larger feels too "long" even with a shorter stem.

you can always try this