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those would be sweet to have and put on bikes that are not locked up properly, just as a friendly how-to

Was perplexed by the title of the thread. Seriously. Clicked through to find out what kind of notecards needed to be locked up.

i made my own of these a couple of times when i saw bikes locked up in a risky fashion...like when i saw the fixie with the loud color scheme at frick fine arts locked only by its front wheel with a quick release skewer...if only i had less morals id have more bikes. i left a note instead.

Was perplexed by the title of the thread. Seriously. Clicked through to find out what kind of notecards needed to be locked up.

Me, too!

I thought that kids at school must be wicked, indeed, if you need to lock your notecards.

I live in South Oakland. I used to own a car (I inherited it) and would never leave anything that looked like it might be valuable in my car. Which was convenient, because that means "leaving nothing," which kept my car uncluttered.

I would usually leave it unlocked, too. When castigated by friends about that, I'd point out that, even with it unlocked, if someone wanted to take something from the car, they would still probably break the window to get in.

(back to topic) I also found myself leaving "Don't leave musical instruments in your car in this neighborhood," a couple of times.

Mick

Punctuation is a wonderful thing.

How-to-lock notecards is how I would've spelled it.

I usually just use a three ring binder with a combination lock for my note cards, haven't had any problems yet...

Floggingdavy, was the fixie pink and green? Cause I saw one of these in the north side at a bike rack with a nice kryptonite. The lock was dangling from the frame.

These cards could come in handy though, I see a lot of nice bikes here in the southside locked up with a cheap cable lock. Ya know, the ones that a dumpster rat could gnaw through.

I had a trek stolen with one of those locks on it, wish someone would of left me a note.

that or "Notecards on How To Lock a Bike"

I would love to get some, or even one and I can copy it myself.

NOTECARDS ON HOW TO SERVE MAN

With diced potatoes and carrots paired with a good bottle of red wine.

Might want to fix the typo "theif" in the letter before making lots of copies. The Bike Fairy needs to use spell check.

Great idea.

I've always thought about doing this. When I went to Pitt I used to see horrible lock jobs all the time.

Once I saw a pretty nice Jamis road bike that had the front wheel taken off locked to the rack through the rim (quick release rear) to the rack.

This morning at S.Craig and Winthrop. Classic

I would like a few copies - let me know how I could get them.

Thanks

I was in Chicago for a week, and I saw this method used all over town: detach the front wheel and lock it to the rear wheel and frame. For my five years living in Pittsburgh I've never seen this done.

detach the front wheel and lock it to the rear wheel and frame

??? I guess I'm missing something. Why bother? Do they take a functional part with them? Or just that that makes the bike less desirable?

i think (hope) he's suggesting locking all 3 of them to a rack, so nobody can steal the bike or the wheels.

fwiw, i used to do that all the time, it's not too much of a pain but you need a pretty big u-lock. after i found out mine was the "pick it with a bic pen" type, i bought a new "compact" one. the new one has a cable to secure the front wheel but i generally don't use it - i'm sure my complacency will end when i come back to find a unicycle...

Yes, of course locking all 3 to the rack. I assumed that would be assumed.

cbobc,

yeah that sounds about right. i dont remember exactly but it had some garrish color scheme.

Joe, that's been "best practice" for twenty years or more. I would never leave a front wheel completely unlocked, unless it had a nutted axle instead of QR. If I think the location is secure, I might use a cable lock through everything, since the only purpose of the lock is to slow someone down a bit.

I definitely needed one of these cards today at the Carnegie Library in Oakland. There was a brand-new-looking Giant bike equipped with fenders, lights, a rack with custom elastic straps--the works--U-locked to one of the racks through the spokes of the front wheel only (not even the rim of the wheel). Oh, the front and rear blinkies, water bottle in cage and maybe trip computer (not sure about that) were also present, ready to be ripped off.

I wrote out a note saying that the owner needs to start locking down the frame and ideally one or both of the wheel rims if he or she wants to hang on to that really nice bike. Surely it's basically the same thing as is in these notecards.

Is someone having these printed up in bulk (hopefully having corrected any typos along the way)? I'd ride around with a couple and deploy them as needed if they were available to be picked up at the members' meeting. Or we could substitute a copy of page 12 of the Commuting 101 booklet for the interior page, and make this a Pittsburgh-specific item.

I would be happy with a pdf or something I could print myself.

Did anything happen with this? I think the printable PDF file would actually be a good solution; I know I'd keep a few in my bag and deploy them as needed.