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Bike Parking and Bike Lock Fails. Spot It. Snap It. Share It.

Do you see some poor soul out there with a wheel locked to the rack but nothing else? Take a pic and post it to this thread.

Also, if you see someone managing to take up most of the bike rack with their bike so that pretty much no one else can lock their bike there? Take a pick and post it to this thread. 

I saw one bike lock fail that turned out to be a bike lock psych out - a guy made it look like his bike was locked but too lazy to actually lock it when he did his grocery shopping at TJ's (I ran in to him when I was leaving and he confirmed he was being lazy).

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Here's a different kind of fail - locked to the bus stop railing in the Washington bike lane at State St. This is not a bike rack.

smh!

Bikes belong in the bike lanes!(just not like this)

Exactly.

With a bike rack configuration like this, parking perpendicular to the racks like this person did is rack hogging.

Parking parallel to the racks to allow the maximum number of bikes is the more considerate way to go.

In the case of this picture, I'll agree: the racks are mounted perpendicular to the street or curb.
 
But what about when the rack(s) are mounted at right-angles to the street?  Locking the bike parallel to the rack allows for two bikes per rack, but locking the bikes perpendicular to the racks allows three bikes per rack: one on each side, and the 3rd up the middle and underneath the rack.

(I wish I had a picture - it would be easier to demonstrate!)

Not as much as you'd hope. You will have to space the staples further apart so the bikes don't hit one another and so people with their bikes in the middle can get in. (It's not like an airplane where the guy on the aisle will just grumble and let you into the middle seat.)

If there were nine bikes locked as you suggest to the three foreground staples in the above picture, I'd hate to be the poor schmuck who came out and wanted to retrieve his bike from the middle of the second staple, especially if it wasn't short enough to simply roll in there in the first place.

If they are INDIVIDUAL racks of this style (not adjacent to another rack), then 3 bikes per rack can be feasible. If there's more than rack close together, I'd agree with Skip's comment. 

Hmmm, can I lock my bike to my wheel?

Geez, I guess I shoulda gotten a new phone for cyber monday to take better pics!! DOH!

Spotted a guy locking up his bike with a u-lock through the front fork on Wacker Drive. Perfect way to lose a bike.

I stopped and convinced him to lock up through the rear wheel. It took some talking to get him onboard, he seemed completely confused that someone could steal his whole bike (minus the front wheel) the way he was locking.

He only had one lock and no cable, so I hope his front wheel is still there when he gets back.

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