http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Bike rack etiquette en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:45:17 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589&page=2#post-168540 Sat, 18 Oct 2014 07:44:11 +0000 Nelly 168540@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It used to be quite territorial in our place, leaving D locks hanging etc.</p> <p>However it was decreed that all locks must hang from a central "lock hanging spot" as there had been incidents (people tripping over random locks.......really!).</p> <p>Sounds stupid, but now it means first come first served on the Sheffield stands, if you are late you probably get a wheelbender. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589&page=2#post-168538 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:18:55 +0000 Arellcat 168538@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I tend to use industrial strength D-locks…and accept the 3+kg hit!</em></p> <p>One of the locks I use with my motorbike weighs about 7kg. It actually doesn't fit through the spokes of a bicycle wheel.</p> <p>I used to territorialise the bike racks at work by leaving my lock hanging from 'my' one. Eventually I realised that no-one else cared for that and I tired of picking the lock up off the ground. Most of us leave our locks attached to the canopy, under cover, and on arrival generally park our bikes in whatever space is most convenient. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589&page=2#post-168528 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 20:19:56 +0000 wingpig 168528@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"You've not seen wingpig floating up the high street like it was flat then?"</em></blockquote><br /> I've not seen that. I've seen earthowned overtake me going up the Canongate, though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589&page=2#post-168521 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 18:26:25 +0000 steveo 168521@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I got mine at waitrose... :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589&page=2#post-168518 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 18:14:53 +0000 SRD 168518@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@dave I bought my 'leave at the offic' lock at sainsbury's.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589&page=2#post-168516 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 18:03:49 +0000 Roibeard 168516@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I tend to use industrial strength D-locks which cost as much as a Bike Station bike, so carry them, and accept the 3+kg hit!</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589&page=2#post-168515 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:43:15 +0000 Dave 168515@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sign of a middle class forum... D-locks are just disposable items that you leave lying around the place like you own it! :P </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589&page=2#post-168512 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:14:26 +0000 gembo 168512@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Rapha and Levi also make trousers that have been specifically designed to allow you to wear your lock on the back of the waistband. These people have gone to a lot of trouble to design this feature and instead people are leaving their locks lying around and even forgetting where they are leaving them tsk. Nearly as bad as those other people who carry their lock around and then forget to lock their bike with it (me). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589&page=2#post-168511 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:04:16 +0000 SRD 168511@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@earthowned if you want to royally piss off the transport offic try asking them how many people are on the wait list for the 'full' bike lookups and/or when they predict access becoming available. </p> <p>Given turnover of staff students, places must come available yes? but whenever anyone asks, we are told they are 'full'. </p> <p>And details of any wait list are somehow never forthcoming..... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589&page=2#post-168503 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:59:43 +0000 steveo 168503@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Wow! Imagine how easy (and fast) you'd find it without all that weight. </em></p> <p>You've not seen Wingpig floating up the high street like it was flat then? If he didn't have all his gear with him it would make the rest of us look <strike>bad</strike> even worse! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589&page=2#post-168500 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:44:37 +0000 Dave 168500@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Even if you do carry a lock with you normally, I'd *still* want to leave a lock at work because I need to use it every day, and the consequence of forgetting the lock on the bike would be extreme inconvenience*.</p> <p>I don't own the street outside our house but it still annoys me slightly when someone parks on it, even though we have masses of off-street parking.</p> <p>I once lost a lock somewhere in Edinburgh. It's locked to something where I expected to come back to it but then forgot all about it for long enough that I can't remember where to start looking!</p> <p>* not actually true because my particular office maintains communal spares for things like locks, track pumps etc., but then I suppose that makes us atypical. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589&page=2#post-168499 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:43:29 +0000 richardlmpearson 168499@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wow! Imagine how easy (and fast) you'd find it without all that weight. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168479 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:45:52 +0000 wingpig 168479@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I use the lesser of my two locks, which I carry everywhere, in the work car park. Should I wish to stop on the way home, as I frequently do, I use and therefore want both locks with me, in order to avoid having to walk home carrying all my stuff plus the shopping I was buying whilst the bike was stolen. Anyway, if I was into not carrying too much weight I'd not drag my SLR everywhere, clean the crap out of my pannier more frequently, buy coffee at work instead of taking it from home in a metal flask, buy food at lunchtime instead of trying to take as much as possible in in the morning, not repair my pannier with lumps of wood, not repair my mudguards with large quantities of nuts and bolts, not carry round a bag containing a multi-tool and a few extra larger tools (including cassette removal tool, mini-socket-wrench, adjustable wrench and a small bag of spare nuts and bolts) and not drag around the large and small chainrings when I probably use them less than 1% of the time. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168475 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:31:40 +0000 richardlmpearson 168475@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I leave my lock on the rack too. Far too heavy to carry everywhere. I sometimes carry a cheepy to deter opportunists if I'm just nipping into a shop.</p> <p>I do leave it on a rack, but have no issue if I have to retrieve it to lock to another rack. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168473 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:30:35 +0000 Baldcyclist 168473@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Are you all stripped down roadies on Strava missions? I'm a disorganised shambles."</p> <p>No, but carrying another 2kg for 44 miles every day seems silly when they only thing I've ever used that lock for is locking the work bike up. :)</p> <p>I have a lighter cable lock at home for shop journeys. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168472 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:26:46 +0000 paddyirish 168472@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>IWRATS - I just carry so much stuff on my back (mine and daughter's), that a heavy and bulky lock and cable just gets in the way.</p> <p>The only shops my 14 mile route home goes past are 2 massive shopping centres, neither of which offers me the slightest incentive to stop... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168470 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:25:06 +0000 amir 168470@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>How light is your lock? Mine is really heavy -plus I do cycle far enough for it to matter. Plus I worry that, combined with a pothole, it could help to write off my rear wheel ;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168467 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:17:12 +0000 I were right about that saddle 168467@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What's with the whole 'leaving the lock' thing? It doesn't slow you up that much and it makes stopping at Valvona and Crolla for an artichoke on the way home much easier. </p> <p>Are you all stripped down roadies on Strava missions? I'm a disorganised shambles. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168465 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:11:37 +0000 paddyirish 168465@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Same as almost everyone else- </p> <p>I leave my lock at the rack to save carrying it everywhere.<br /> I'm well aware that it doesn't give me "ownership", but it doesn't stop me being p!ssed off when someone uses else uses "my" rack. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168457 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:20:47 +0000 Baldcyclist 168457@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>New one under DHT, it's still practically empty. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168452 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 10:45:12 +0000 earthowned 168452@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Baldcyclist - if you don't mind me asking which secure bike store do you use? I have been asking our transport office for ages for access to a close store but they kept replying all places were full and told me to use the potterow one (even though that's a 5 minute walk away) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168446 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 10:23:41 +0000 PS 168446@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Glad to hear that this lock leaving isn't the bike lock equivalent of the ridiculous <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/mar/31/campaign-paris-love-locks-banned">love lock</a> "craze". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168441 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 09:52:59 +0000 kaputnik 168441@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The rack I parked my bike in today had 6 different locks of various sizes and types locked to it. I gave a few a good kicking to get them out the way. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168430 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:27:52 +0000 gembo 168430@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@tulyar -nice one, people can bagsy their bike lock space by locking their bike lock to it leaving the racks looking nice and clean. Does it actually work? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168426 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 00:44:35 +0000 Tulyar 168426@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The mess of locks lying around has lead to some London rail stations providing bicycle lock parking, where you park your lock overnight and collect it when you arrive to lock your bike to a rack </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168418 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 21:39:33 +0000 Kenny 168418@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em> Does locking your lock to the rack secure the space</em></p> <p>IMHO, it does not.</p> <p><em> General consensus seems to be that if I get there first in the morning then that rack is mine (for the day)</em></p> <p>Good luck with that. I certainly don't adhere to that rule. If my bike is in one space in the morning, and I am out at lunch and return some minutes later, I will lock it in whatever free space I want, and more often than not my original space is gone anyway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168417 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:58:22 +0000 SRD 168417@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Never even occurred to me that leaving my lock might be interpreted as 'claiming' a spot. Obviously it's convenient if that spot remains vacant until I arrive, but always thought that was fortuitous rather than entitlement. </p> <p>I did leave a note on a bike which was jammed in on top of mine the other day. I was in a prime spot (third in/second rack) but that's no excuse. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168414 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:50:42 +0000 HankChief 168414@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ Greenroofer - <em> monstrous contraption</em> - beauty is in the eye of the beholder... The other week I came out of the post office to find a young boy (c5yo) admiring it along with his mother. I asked if he wanted a shot and his eyes lit up (&amp; mum nodded), so we went for a spin up and down the pavement. Made his (&amp; my) day.</p> <p>@baldcyclist - I wouldn't read too much into their lock being left on the hoop. It's easier to leave it where they have taken it off from.</p> <p>Trick is to get in earlier than them and claim it back and they will move off to somewhere else. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168412 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:01:37 +0000 Baldcyclist 168412@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>General consensus seems to be that if I get there first in the morning then that rack is mine (for the day), and this is perfectly acceptable... ;)</p> <p>I think the thing that slightly annoyed me more than anything was that after 3 days, they started leaving their lock locked to the rack as if to 'claim' it for themselves in a "I have won" sort of fashion. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13589#post-168411 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:46:12 +0000 LivM 168411@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've used the same hoop at work for about 7 years, and left a lock and a cable attached. Sometimes someone else would attach their bike to the same hoop, but rather than the hassle of untangling my lock and cable, I would just attach my bike to the other side of the hoop. They generally get the message. </p> <p>Since July I've had to stop cycling because I'm growing a person, so I have removed my lock etc. Every day as I pass the rack I see other bikes parked on it and think mournfully of "my" space and hope that I can claim it back in a year or so when I am back to work :) </p>