lock 2 lock

www.lock2lock.co.uk

"The scheme is simplicity itself. By attaching a L2L sticker to your
bike, motorcyclists can help to drastically reduce motorcycle theft.
The L2L sticker displayed on a motorcycle authorises another
Lock-2-Lock member to lock his or her bike security chain to that
particular bike's security chain. Only the locks are locked together,
therefore any of the bikes can be removed from the "chain" of bikes
when the owner desires."

Good idea or a waste of time and effort?

 

This scheme is at least ten years old.

IIRC, one of the bike mags, or it might have been MCN, started
off the idea and gave away loads of "lock2lock friendly" stickers
to put onto your bike.

It's a great idea, and would certainly make it harder to lift a
bike into a van, but I don't get why you'd want to pay £10 for
a couple of stickers and some discounts?

 

I'd not heard of it before, but having read the blurb, you're right.

The email got sent to us at work, as they're having a new promotion of
it between 21/7 and 4/8 this year, in conjunction with the City of
London CDRP (Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnership)

Again, I didn't know that.

fair comment, but I guess there's some admin overhead. I guess it
ought to be funded by the police, as they're failing in their duty of
care if your bike gets nicked.

 

Lol, that would be a great point to make at an open day!

 

[snip]

I'm of the same opinion. However, it raises my next question: do
professional bike thieves regularly steal bikes from London bike bays
in broad daylight?

 

Good idea until some fucker locks their bike straight to yours.

 

For the unprofessional bike thieves, perhaps.

 

I'm not saying bikes don't get nicked (though I've never had a bike
nicked from a bike bay, nor can I think of anyone I know who has).

 

well, that's where learning Bear's X Y and Z skills comes in handy.

 

They do around here. Some fuckers stuck someones bike in the back of a
transit out of the bike bay under my window in EC4. I wasn't around,
but by the time my colleagues had legged it down from the 2nd floor,
they were away.

Lock to lock would have helped, as it'd be twice as difficult to lift 2
bikes locked together into the back of a van, and would require more
scrotes.

P.

 

Ah good point. It's likely to be a scheme embraced by the dim. Is it
endorsed by MAG, by any chance?[/QUOTE]

I've never had it happen to a motorbike but I had it happen to the
pushbike a couple of times at uni.

 

() gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

A couple of years ago, I and others watched from a 4th floor office on
Marsh Wall as a couple of scrotes lobbed an R6 in the side door of a van,
bike alarm wailing as they did so. Building security had been given a false
alarm round the other side about a minute before...

Plod got a running commentary, but reckoned the white Renault Trafic we
were looking at was actually a small blue Kia hatchback, according to the
plate.

 

yes, I know, you sensitive twonk. I meant "the skills to which Bear
referred".

Fairly obviously, I though.