Bike Security in Bristol

The Bristol Traffic blog has great tips for bike security today:

If you’re a bike shop, loosen the stems of all the bikes you have anywhere near the door – it makes them un-ridable, and less likely to have some scroat head off down the road on ‘em.
Have the police stake out the road right outside [...]

More Bike Security Tips From The Ministry

Yes, they’ve been at it again . . .well sort of.
I did a little noodling around on YouTube, and came up with two public information videos about locking your bike. The first is from the ’70s, and is worth watching if only for the Quentin Crisp-alike’s insistence that he doesn’t want to talk about what [...]

The Men From The Ministry

Well, what do you know – the UK government takes bike theft seriously.
The ‘keep your bicycle safe’ page on the Home Office’s web site lists all sorts of useful tips for protecting your bike from theft. The first of these is to get your bike insured, which seems a little like locking the stable door [...]

This Bike Isn’t Locked

Found this today on Bike Snob NYC – someone who thinks that bike thieves don’t understand the complexities of a quickrelease fixing for a seatpost:

For once, I’m left speechless.

Be Better Locked Than Your Neighbour

This joke’s a metaphor – stick with it ’till the end:
Two guys are on safari, and camping out in a tent. Suddenly, a lion sticks his head through the tent flap, and says, “Roarrr! I’m a lion, and I’m hungry, so I’m going to eat one of you! But I fancy a bit of sport [...]

Bike Theft: Daylight Robbery

Here’s an interesting little film. A couple of guys got fed up with having their bikes and parts of their bikes stolen. So they set out to find  how easy it is to steal bikes . . . and what the public’s response would be when this was done in broad daylight.
Naturally, they’re not real [...]

Want a set of wheels?

Got a good lock? One of those nifty little D-locks that are as hard as it gets, and could only be cut off with a petrol-driven angle grinder? One that’s small enough that when it locks the bike to something tough & immovable that no-one’s going to get a jack in there to crack it [...]

Hold it, Lock it, or Lose It

This sad story was in the Newcastle Journal on Monday. Local paper boy, Matthew Reid was doing his morning round on his pride and joy customised Giant Glory. Like most paperboys, he used his bike to get from house to house, but then left it at the garden gate while he walked to the front [...]