Bike locks: How to properly lock up a bicycle

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Bike locks: How to properly lock up a bicycle

What's the best way to lock up a bike? And what kind of lock do you need? Steve Madden, editor of Bicycling Magazine, shows the proper way to lock up a bike.

Keywords:
different ways to attach a bike lock
how to set a bicycle lock

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• how to
• bike
• bicycle
• lock
• lockup
• attach
• secure
• steve madden
• howdini

[jazzx251]

I think stealing a bike should carry an automatic 4 years in prison (first offence). Then 365 days of community payback upon release. (Electronically tagged until the time is done).

PLUS - the criminal owes the victim 2000% victim payback.

So - a £300 bike costs the criminal £6000 which comes out of their bank account immediately - or out of their benefits until it's paid off.

Juveniles should get the 4 years in detention - their parents should do the victim payback.

[Commando303X]

This video is the work of an enterprising idiot:

1. Looks like a low-end model of Kryptonite U-lock.

2. Why in hell would you not use the U-lock to secure the frame AND the rear wheel? There's no good reason not to.

3. Why the fiddledy fuck didn't you take the cable around the front wheel, as well? Carrying a front wheel around with yourself might be a bit of a pain, no?

4. Your saddle still isn't secured.

There's good reason for which ~half the thumbs for this video are red.

[MisterMadcap]

Great work!

[animacs1]

that was not safe at all. what about the saddle? why take the front wheel, instead of locking it? and also, what if you have a rack, for example? those must be secured as well.

[TheBum642]

He wasted soo much benifit by locking just the frame.. lock the frame.. and the back wheel and your crank together..

then the front wheel and the frame all to the fence or bike post

[faribx1]

Frankly, all you need to cut any lock is a battery operated angle saw (30-100$ at any hardware store), which any true bike thief has in their toolbox so the two separate lock theory holds little ground; better to get two of the thickest most annoying locks one can find

[Renotech]

I came up with this video by watching how insecure the U-locks are. ;D

[julianv987]

120 people got their bikes stolen after this video

[jobeanie123]

@thecastman97 Cable locks and U-locks require separate tools to break; thieves usually only carry one lock. What he did was somewhat okay, but he should have put the U-lock THROUGH (not threw) he frame and the rear wheel. The cable lock should secure both wheels to the frame and whatever you're securing the bike to.

[UltraHunts]

Why don't you lock the frame and the back wheel with the u-lock then the front with the cable...