Wow! Imagine how easy (and fast) you'd find it without all that weight.
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Bike rack etiquette
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Posted 10 years ago #
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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*.
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.
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!
* 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.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Wow! Imagine how easy (and fast) you'd find it without all that weight.
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
badeven worse!Posted 10 years ago # -
@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.
Given turnover of staff students, places must come available yes? but whenever anyone asks, we are told they are 'full'.
And details of any wait list are somehow never forthcoming.....
Posted 10 years ago # -
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).
Posted 10 years ago # -
Sign of a middle class forum... D-locks are just disposable items that you leave lying around the place like you own it! :P
Posted 10 years ago # -
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!
Robert
Posted 10 years ago # -
@dave I bought my 'leave at the offic' lock at sainsbury's....
Posted 10 years ago # -
I got mine at waitrose... :)
Posted 10 years ago # -
"You've not seen wingpig floating up the high street like it was flat then?"
I've not seen that. I've seen earthowned overtake me going up the Canongate, though.Posted 10 years ago # -
I tend to use industrial strength D-locks…and accept the 3+kg hit!
One of the locks I use with my motorbike weighs about 7kg. It actually doesn't fit through the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
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.
Posted 10 years ago # -
It used to be quite territorial in our place, leaving D locks hanging etc.
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!).
Sounds stupid, but now it means first come first served on the Sheffield stands, if you are late you probably get a wheelbender.
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