How Lock Your Bike

With the help of a u lock or a chain lock this can be done fairly easily.

How lock your bike. You can usually carry your bike chain or lighter cable lock in your backpack or a basket mounted on your handle. Take a peak at our latest episode and let us know. The bikes at the end of a row of bikes are most visible to thieves but also the easiest for them to work on unobtrusively. Hi res version of video.

If you fail to lock your bike at the end of a journey you ll continue to be charged so always take a moment to double check. If you re cycling around town or if you ve stopped at a cafe where you leave your bike and how you lock it can prevent it from being a target for the dreaded bike thieves. The bike must be locked manually we aren t able to do this remotely. Always lock from frame to a solid object.

Make sure you don t lock your bike to another bike with a careless cable lock. The trick is to lock your bike so that it is as inconvenient as possible to even try to steal in the time and place it is locked in. Using real cctv footage of a bike being stolen and with the help of northumbria police s anti bike theft squad this two and a half minute video could keep your bike safe. Your beryl bike journey ends when you lock the bike unless you choose to pause your ride.

Lock your bike between other bikes when possible. There are plenty of mounting brackets available in the market. A badly locked bike in the street will disappear very quickly. Here our host amanda teaches you how to properly lock your bike.

But when carrying along heavier u locks you may find it more convenient to use a mounting bracket positioned on the bike frame. Even the best locks are no use if your bike can conveniently carried away or thrown into a back of a van.