Cycle lock prize winner

[horizon]

Have we flagged this up already?

http://www.nesta.org.uk/areas_of_work/c ... s_a_winner

[iviehoff]

Clearly the judges do not understand the usual requirements of a bike lock. A bike lock needs to facilitate the attachment of the bicycle to a piece of street furniture in a way that is resistant against the tools commonly carried by thieves. This one attaches the bike to the street furniture with a cable extension. Most cables can be snipped, and those that can't be are usually even heavier than a D-lock. I have seen bikes stolen where a person has used the D-lock to immobilise his bike and attached it to the street furniture with a cable extension. The thief snips the cable and loads the bike into his van to crack the D-lock at his leisure.

[BSRU]

Just seems to stop somebody riding off on it but not anyone wheeling it away or loading it into a van.

[Vantage]

A zip tie is more secure than that...

[Mick F]

Yes, a zip tie.

It was a good immobiliser, though the bike could just be picked up and carried away.

[AlaninWales]

Chain off chainrings, disconnect both brakes is usually ok (and occasionally hilarious) if you can see the bike from within the shop.

[[XAP]Bob]

Frankly a proper dutch frame lock does the same...

Hence why I have two on my upwrong?

[Postboxer]

The ideal situation would be either bike lockers everywhere, or bike stands with built in sturdy locks, so you don't have to carry the weight with you. That or the death penalty.

[mrjemm]

Something like this better perhaps;



http://www.bikerumor.com/2013/04/10/int ... er-cycles/

OK, a very fancy and probably very expensive bike, but a nice idea that combines a d-lock direct to frame and steerer lock in one. I guess a traditional vandal would just use the frame's leverage to destroy it though.

I wonder if the Dutch expectation of bikes being stolen in Amsterdam is the reason they use wheel locks; altruistically letting the bike go rather than be damaged... Remember Space 1999? My version of that was the gap in the railing against the canal that year, when my GT Timberline was released into the wild on my 1st foray into cycling in Europe.

[[XAP]Bob]

The ideal situation would be either bike lockers everywhere, or bike stands with built in sturdy locks, so you don't have to carry the weight with you. That or the death penalty.

No, the ideal situation would be a society which respects people's belongings.

[mrjemm]

Or just respects other people.

[[XAP]Bob]

Or just respects other people.

Yes, that of course would include their possessions

[mrjemm]

But never going to happen. Not in my lifetime anyway.

[Jughead]

How did that win? It's a bike that can be carried away. So what if its immobilised.

Am I missing something?

[Mick F]

You'd be missing your bike I you relied on that!