Is this how bikes were locked in the 60's ?

[J i m s t e r]

When I was a student in Manchester I heard that some crooks put their own locks on your bike, so you couldn't take it home when campus was busy, and they'd rock up about 4AM and take theirs off and bolt-crop yours off.

You'd have been better resigning to the fact your bike was going to be nicked, and taking your own lock off it, to use on your next bike - at least this way, you don't need to buy a new lock...

Re: the 60's, why would anyone want to nick a bike like that anyway? I am sure folks weren't paying £4000 for full unobtainium full-suzzers back then; they must have had minimal resale value.

And if there was no crime back in the day, where did those Victorian prisons come from? And the population of Australia? :twisted: (I keed, I keed my Antipodean bredrens).

 

[ekiborter]

That is a pretty common scam to lock a cheep bike next to a nice bike and accidently lock the nice bike up.....

most people think it is a dumb mistake and resign themselves to going home and coming back the next day for their bike....

oddly their bike is gone the next day :evil:

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[pete_mcc]

Brother and I owned a Mk1 escort, but only had one key. The key cutting place said that spares were a fiver or he reckoned we could use a chubb door key. Best advice ever, I only needed one key on my key ring to open the car, start the engine and open our house.

 

[pete_mcc]

And if there was no crime back in the day, where did those Victorian prisons come from? And the population of Australia?

Have you tried locking a sheep to a lamp post, or a loaf of bread to a bike stand?

 

[hamster]

pal of mine who used to live in the centre of Newcastle had a Mk2 escort...got so sick of it going wandering on Friday nights that he just used to remove the steering wheel as a security measure.

..The kids just turned up with a spare steering wheel

 

[alanf]

a guy I worked with in milton keynes had a skoda rapide he said it was a great car! he never locked it as you could unlock the doors and start the car with anything key shaped! it didnt matter though as when it went missing from outside his house they had the choice of going left or right on the main road, both ways had roundabouts on a few hundred yards away from his front door so you could find the car near either of them as the steering lock came on when you turned the wheel enough times for it to latch, you could start the car and drive off without the pucker key but not beat the steering lock which latched on after a few turns of the wheel and being milton keynes you could never get far before you met a roundabout

 

[Tad]

That is a pretty common scam to lock a cheep bike next to a nice bike and accidently lock the nice bike up.....

most people think it is a dumb mistake and resign themselves to going home and coming back the next day for their bike....

oddly their bike is gone the next day :evil:

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I had this happen to me only they used a crap couple of quid lock. Quick jog home and back saw me hacksaw the lock off in about 30 seconds and ride away. I now only ride absolute sheds on bimbles into town.