http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Bad office bikerack etiquette? en Wed, 13 May 2026 03:55:50 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213&page=2#post-75700 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:21:55 +0000 gembo 75700@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tightened the data security after the first break in</p> <p>Had passing acquaintance with some of swamp trash and critter hill varmints. Some of whom re-emerged as shooglers </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213&page=2#post-75678 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:29:01 +0000 ruggtomcat 75678@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hows your data security?</p> <p>Shooglenifty were indeed a fine band.</p> <p>The only parking near the Dagda used to be the railings opposite but now the new student residences have their own (largely unused) bikeracks round the corner with ccv and everything and I tend to park up here when going to the pub, is this unethical? There are only about 2 other bikes for about 20+ racks. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213&page=2#post-75627 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:28:03 +0000 gembo 75627@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Our bike racks and the racks outside waverley court have been chocker this week despite the weather maybe to do with bike week? </p> <p>many of my companions at our office leave lights etc on the bikes. Curious given the rapidity of our computers getting nicked. The last time we were burgled the lads bled a little and the police picked up DNA and arrested the culprits who still had the laptops. They are still being held as evidence. when I mentioned this to Quentin at bike freebie fest he was mildly surprised at the retrieval as the booty is normally long gone ( and indeed the first time we didn't get them back,,or will get them back) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75513 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:24:26 +0000 Kenny 75513@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I don't know that people who leave D-locks attached to racks are necesarily "claiming" that rack - I used to do this (until my D-lock died) because I didn't need to take it anywhere else. If someone else put a bike on the stand to which my lock was attached, I just moved the lock.</em></p> <p>Yep, I leave my very heavy kryptonite lock on the bike racks at work so I don't have to carry it back across Edinburgh every day. Doesn't mean I "own" that rack or are attempting to claim it is mine, and if people thought that was what I was doing, then they are just plain wrong. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75512 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:21:07 +0000 kaputnik 75512@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@RJ one of my neighbours has started a campaign to rid our stair of the abandoned bikes and put up a nice note and tied a piece of red ribbon to each bike, asking it be removed if the bike is owned by someone in the stair.</p> <p>Cheekily, one has been removed off an old white and purple giant road bike at the bottom of the pile which has never moved in 18 months. I might equally-cheekily send that one to the Bike Station too :)</p> <p>There nothing wrong with active/working bikes parked (considerately) in the stair, but we've not much room and the ones that have been there for 2 years+ and the owners either don't care or don't want them, well as far as I'm concerned it's open season. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75509 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:16:41 +0000 Uberuce 75509@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Contact The Bike Station for their standard letter that you put on the bike. </p> <p>It says, in legalese, that in two weeks time they're sending the boys raaaaaahnd. If no-one objects in that time, the boys cut the lock off and someone gets a bike for the price of three nights on the ale. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75508 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:59:21 +0000 RJ 75508@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>OK - what etiquette for office bike-rack squatters/lon-stayers? How thick does the dust have to get before it's acceptable to be sufficiently brassed off to want to do something? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75498 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:44:40 +0000 gembo 75498@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shooglenifty - now they were a band, back when being in a band was a job for a man (trouble funk reference from Alex cox film Repo Man) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75463 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:52:36 +0000 Roibeard 75463@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shoogle - Also "to force" as in "use the Force, Luke".</p> <p>At least according to my kids, who play Lego Star Wars without ever having seen the filums[1].</p> <p>Robert<br /> [1] used in Norn Iron for "movie" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75459 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:30:58 +0000 DaveC 75459@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Every day is a School Day!! :-) Thanks guys and galls. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75456 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:26:07 +0000 alibali 75456@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>shoogle [ˈʃʊgəl] Dialect chiefly Scot<br /> vb<br /> to shake, sway, or rock back and forth<br /> n<br /> a rocking motion; shake<br /> [from dialectal shog, shug; apparently related to German schaukeln to shake]<br /> shoogly adj</p> <p>Widely understood by Geordies too, I think, though that could be the Auf Wiedersehen, Pet connection. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75453 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:21:38 +0000 kaputnik 75453@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@DaveC yes shoogly = shaky. To shoogle is to shake. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75447 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:59:27 +0000 Instography 75447@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mainstream Scots. As in, "yer jaicket's oan a shoogly peg". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75446 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:57:30 +0000 DaveC 75446@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shoogling... Shuggling... My 5 yr old son has started using this term. Is it an East coast Scotland term? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75439 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:35:49 +0000 Uberuce 75439@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The one downside of the rack at work is that the outer row doesn't shelter your bike from the rain if the wind is westerley, which it usually is, whereas the inner row keeps it dry but makes it almost impossible to push out without shoogling someone else's handlebars if not entire bike.</p> <p><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5459/7409115032_731feae01b_m.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75411 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:55:58 +0000 DaveC 75411@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I find the 'James Bond, For You're Eyes Only, White Lotus Esprit' method soon stops those who want to meddle with my bikes. I say 'Bikes' as I find the bits of blown up bike and body all messed up together make riding it again difficult and repulsive and so I have to buy another bike. Fixes thr N+1 excuse with the wife though!</p> <p>Otherwise I'd just lock it in place Andy and then the 'someone' won't be able to use the wheel bender.</p> <p>Our bike locker room is open to the public but hidden under the St James Center and only visited by security zapping their cards on the security sensor once an hour. Its a warm large room, but it grinds on me when they leave the light on and door wide open so visiting delivery people can look in and see bikes, which fortunatley and locked to Sheffield Staples. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75409 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:50:58 +0000 PS 75409@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Never rub another man's rhubarb.</p> <p>I try to avoid even touching someone else's bike on a rack unless it is absolutely necessary. You never know where they've been. ;o) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75406 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:17:00 +0000 alibali 75406@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>..our racks are covered in locks when everybody's gone home..</em></p> <p>At Linlithgow station I've noticed a trend to park D locks on the roof frame of the cycle park rather than on a cycle support loop.</p> <p>More convenient for everyone and I'm sure it would catch on if someone started it.</p> <p>No such nicety if you have to park your bike under the stairs though. Everybody moves everyone elses bike as required. LIke living in the olden days, really... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75404 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:07:55 +0000 wingpig 75404@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Combination lock plus Post-It® with "don't make me go in there" or similar until you can draw something more complicated. I haven't had to regularly use wheeltwisters since I was based in a different building, but then always just leant against one of the rain-cover support pillars so that there was something solid to chain the frame to rather than just something flexible to which to attach the rim. On the current building's car-park's Sheffield stands the most I've ever had to do is spend a few minutes threading a helmet along a lock so that the other half of a stand was rendered usable. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75394 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:35:55 +0000 AKen 75394@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Leaving work one day, I discovered that someone had locked their bike to the office bike-rack and also managed to ptu their lock round MY bike as well. Now that's bad etiquette.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75392 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:32:40 +0000 recombodna 75392@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I think I know who did it but will consult with recombodna's spies." lolz! My spies wouldn't dare move bikes!!!</p> <p>The only time I would move someones bike is when it's lying on the pavement still locked to a lamp post and people would rather walk over it than pick it up. Like the woman I saw trying to push a pram over a fallen bike last week....... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75391 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:27:03 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 75391@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>+1, our racks are covered in locks when everybody's gone home, but you just put your bike wherever you like and move your lock. Seems a shame to have to carry a heavy lock around (I waited for a decent sale and bought a dedicated work lock a few years back - means the spare key can live in my desk, too).</em>"</p> <p>+2 - hotstanding? hotlocking? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75390 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:22:25 +0000 Dave 75390@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Pretty bad form. I'm not shy about moving people's bikes to get access, but adjusting them for no reason is a bit like going round inflating tyres to whatever you think they should be, or some other sinister invasion.</p> <p>Tie it on and leave a stern note!</p> <p><em>I don't know that people who leave D-locks attached to racks are necesarily "claiming" that rack - I used to do this (until my D-lock died) because I didn't need to take it anywhere else. If someone else put a bike on the stand to which my lock was attached, I just moved the lock.</em></p> <p>+1, our racks are covered in locks when everybody's gone home, but you just put your bike wherever you like and move your lock. Seems a shame to have to carry a heavy lock around (I waited for a decent sale and bought a dedicated work lock a few years back - means the spare key can live in my desk, too). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75380 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:39:00 +0000 fimm 75380@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't know that people who leave D-locks attached to racks are necesarily "claiming" that rack - I used to do this (until my D-lock died) because I didn't need to take it anywhere else. If someone else put a bike on the stand to which my lock was attached, I just moved the lock.</p> <p>OP is it possible that the mysterious bicycle mover thinks you don't know how to use the wheel-bender stand? (I think I'd go for the cheap combination lock option if I was concerned that my bike would get damaged.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75327 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:11:52 +0000 Uberuce 75327@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Perhaps find someone who can draw(dunno if you know anyone like that) and suggest they make a picture of an unhappy bike with sore spokes from the wheelbenders, and then a Kappily smiling one in the aforedescribed position you prefer.</p> <p>Affix said artwork to bike. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75326 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:11:45 +0000 kaputnik 75326@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Nelly I never go that way, prefer chancing the 2-lanes-changes-to-3-lanes-changes-to-1-lane mess that is the South Gyle Broadway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75325 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:11:12 +0000 gembo 75325@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My bike was moved tonight but no big deal as I had wedged it into the only available space in a very crowded shed. I think I know who did it but will consult with recombodna's spies. I have long cable which provides more options than d lock </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75323 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:06:16 +0000 Nelly 75323@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Really bad form, </p> <p>Somebody was messing with my hotel shower caps a few weeks ago, and I was raging......until I found it was a buddy having a laugh.</p> <p>n.b. You could just park it in one of those ENORMOUS holes in the road in front of your office. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75322 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:01:10 +0000 Morningsider 75322@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This is very bad form - I would never move someone's bike (unless its fallen over) without speaking to the owner first. I think it is acceptable to tweak a handlebar to get into an empty space, but that's all. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7213#post-75318 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:52:26 +0000 justsitting 75318@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I always move the D-Locks that are left behind, but would only move the handlebars or maybe slightly straighten a bike to allow access to the other side of the rack. But NO on the movement into those horrible racks that you describe that makes your bike feel all floppy and vulnerable. </p>