Damn, how stupid! He didn't lock up his wheels!

yeah, but it's real hard to get around the back wheel, the frame, AND a street pole with a u-lock.
thats why some people carry a chain and a padlock, cause you can lock it to anything, it doesnt have to be as thin.

that bikes too pretty to ride.

Simple: the mini u-lock goes around ONLY the rear wheel. NEVER around the seat tube or any part of the frame. Most crooks are lazy and stupid. So, once in their life, they might attempt to steal a bike that is correctly locked. And, they will fail, and never bother with a correctly locked bike again. Too many incorrecty locked bikes to bother.

I use the "rear wheel" method in some of the worst areas of one of America's major crime centers. Late at night in neighborhoods where the police refuse to patrol alone, I put a second lock on the front wheel. No bikes stolen. No bikes tampered with.

There is a bike in downtown Houston that has been locked to a pole for about a year. The owner put the u-lock around the frame. The crook attempted to use the frame as a lever to break the u-lock. Instead, he just turned the frame into a pretzel. The owner must have decided to not bother taking the ruined frame home...it may hang on that pole forever...

I use an Evo Mini U-lock around the frame and an old Kryptolock from frame to front wheel. They have two different types of key patterns, so it just looks like a headache to hack.

It seems like 2 u-locks would be a pain, but I've gotten it down to an artform.

alan, you should do some consulting for "law and order: criminal intent." i've been obsessed with that show lately. there was a guy trackstanding in an episode i watched recently!!!!!!

that's my only problem with locking it up this way. i see hundreds of bikes/frames, with locks around the wheels that are all twisted up like that, and that is the only reason why i won't do it.

2 ulock minis or mini+ one bigs$$chain, if i'm out of sight for a bit.

I used the "sheldon" technique tonight while I did the "spoke card" photocopy / cut / paste / laminate dance at my friendly neighborhood kinko's.

My fixie neither disappeared or turned into a pretzel. It works, people!

That better have been my spoke card. I still haven't got mine. Santa must not be real.














JERKS.

its not that it doesn't work, but as i sit here now i know of 5 frame/wheel/twisted piles of junk. i could never quite figure it out until reading of that locking method. and that 5 is very conservative, hell i'm out of alcohol and will be dashing out in a second... i'll snap a couple pics of these piles of junk and let the pics talk for themselves...

Mine are not going to Austin. That's all I'm sayin'.

If it makes you feel any better, I've yet to see my card too. Oh, and Santa is King of Jerks.

Man, you killed 5 bikes trying to figure out how it works? That's a world record for sure!


PS: two posts up I said "neither....or" which clearly should have been "neither...nor". It was the Schlitz talking.

not really recommended, but...

three bikes, hooked up high on a light pole (those street signs are about 15 feet up). throw a few locks through them and it's pretty secure. not much to use for leverage when you climb up there.

http://thirdrate.com/pics/deersparty/DSC_6620-01.jpg

Onguard 2006 catalog, not yet on their front web page

http://www.onguardlock.com/2006-OnGuardLocks.pdf

The new bulldog mini TC (thin cover) combines with the kryptonite ny colors :D

Wrench wrench wrench....

Someone just stole three rear wheels. Oops.

lock ur bike to ur d-i-c-k- and u might be safe

woah what is that bladed fork on the green bike?