Check bike stands before leaving your bike.

Saw this on facebook and thought I'd share it here:

Please check bike stands - this one is between Tesco and Costa near Millennium Square in Bristol. Someone has cut through the bar, with the cut hidden by foliage. Clearly they wait for the cyclist to leave and steal the bike.

Yeah, there's several of a similar design at my local Asda. Not sawn, but you can actually lift them out of the tarmac.

Scum!!!! Like to take the saw to certain parts of people like this.

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Bait the trap....

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Yrp, i check stands and sign posts, for secure fitment in the ground and as to whether chain can be lifted over the sign, the dign has to be bigger than the loop in the chain, also chrck tailing and choose the part thatll take longest to saw through.

Minifreak":1bmq0wmd said:

Scum!!!! Like to take the saw to certain parts of people like this.

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My local Tesco is clearly committed to cyclists, the three space cycle stand isn't even bolted to the ground, it's designed to be, but is in fact completely free standing. However, the barriers for lining up the trollies are fairly sturdy and securely fixed in the ground, so I lock my bicycle to them.

There is no specific provision for bicycles whatsoever at the nearest Lidl, Morrisons, or the two Sainsbury's.

At my nearest Aldi, there is single cycle rack, like this:



But it has been fitted too close to a wall, such that you can only really use the front "upright" and clearly not installed by a cyclist, so I lock my bike to the trolly barrier there too.

The nearest Halfords has a large bicycle department, but there is nothing really suitable for locking a bicycle to at all, there is a hand rail on the nearby flight of steps that you can use if you hang the bicycle on the lock with one wheel off the ground. :?

Most places you go you just have to look around for something sturdy and improvise. :?

I can sympathise, my last place of work was supposedly cycle friendly, but most of the racks were made from rusty angle iron and would scratch and gouge anything left within about a foot of them.

So put mine inside the workshop. Until they insisted that it go outside.

Then some one came on site and nicked a dozen or so (secure site as well, they drove a frigging van on site!!)

It then stayed in the workshop, with about 15 others for the remainder of my time at the company.