Leaving covers and locks where you park your bike

[P.addy]

Leaving covers and locks where you park your bike... do you do it?

I used to keep bringing my cover indoors, but I have since got far too lazy to climb 28 stairs..

That has bitten me in the rectum as I've just arrived home to find 2 homeless people wrapped up in it shivering their cornholes off.

I did think they kinda need it more than the bike does...I'm not that much of a bastard, but seriously?

Ah well, so.. who (stupidly) leaves their covers and what no where you park your bike

[ukdiceman]

I live in flats with a gated courtyard, always leave my cover neatly folded on my parking space, no problems so far!
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[Vincent]

I chuck mine over the garden fence unless it's soaking - then it goes over the washing line. For recognition purposes, it's not a bad idea to daub yer name all over it.

When I lived in a shared house, we found a tramp asleep on the sofa in the kitchen one morning We gave him a bong and sent him on his merry way. I bet he was hungry by the time he got to the soup kitchen
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[BigDan1190]

[johnnyarctic]

[P.addy]

It doesn't bother me, I don't cover the bike...its purely for when I had the sumo.

[yaigi]

[Redoko]

Mine's in my hallway by my front door when it's not on the bike.
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[illuminateTHE...]

i live in a flat (4 floors and im at the top)....

Chain/Padlock: i chain it to the rails next to the staircase.. i never leave it outside as ive heard a few stories about thiefs tampering with padlocks by putting super glue inside the barrel... which prevents the owner of the bike from securing it sufficiently

Cover: i usually leave it inside my apartment or shove it in my bag if theres any room

[J.M.]

1.6m chain wraps lovely around my bike so I take that with me everywhere.

As for the cover, I just chuck it in that pathetic excuse of a garage that I have now.
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[J.M.]

[Rogerborg]

If you really cared about warming up those tramps, you'd donate them more things from your bike, like some petrol and a spark.

I do whatever takes my fancy at the time. Stuff gets nicked, it doesn't get nicked, eh, it's just stuff. Entropy gonna getcha.
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[DonDino]

I throw my cover in the paper recycling bin, which is in the front garden (near the bike).
The bin is clean (only paper in there) and keeps the cover safe and dry.
Chain either comes with me or stays on wall anchor.
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[map]

Would never leave a chain/lock. Too paranoid that someone would superglue the lock so that they'd get a chance to nick an unlocked bike.
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[binge]

The best (or worst) story I've heard about a lock which was left around a lamp post was that a thief pulled back the fabric cover, sawed through a link, and replaced it with a heavy duty cable tie.

[Bendy]

I used to leave my chain round 'my' lamppost due to extreme laziness, until the day I can home to find it all done up with official Westminster Council cable ties.

Fair enough really, it does look a bit scabby if every solid object had a manky old bike chain wrapped around it.

[P.addy]

The kind people left it for me... sitting next to my bike this morning flapping in the wind.

I'll let them keep it

[Joncrete Cungle]

Had a couple of covers stolen in the past so I keep the covers inside when not chained to a bike. Don't leave chains / padlocks outside when not locking a bike up as I am paranoid someone will superglue the padlock or cut the chain and leave me no way of locking my bike up properly.

[haroman666]

I park my bike down the middle of 2 semi-detached houses where there's hedges and the like to slightly obscure view. My lock stays around the 6 foot bit of I-section that makes for part of the gate frame and the cover either gets bunged around the corner into the back garden or just scrunched up next to where my bike was.

I probably ought to exercise more caution, as when we viewed this house last year, the tenants at the time said over the Christmas period their bikes (Pedal bikes) got nicked. But they said they weren't locked. And i'd imagine it was because there's nobody there over Christmas.
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[DrSnoosnoo]

We have a shed in the back yard. Get's flung in there. There's no lock on it and not had it nicked yet (he says confidently, after only living there 2 months) Also the lock is generally with the bike, I go over to the girlfriends and will take it there to lock it at hers.

If I just go out shopping though I'll leave it around my drainpipe under the tarpaulin tent I've created with items found in my local pound shop
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[i.p.phrealy]

wouldn't do it, mostly because it tells the passing scrotes that a bike parks there sometimes... if they see the bike covered, then that's another issue.
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[Kierran]

I leave mines in one of the works garaged 300m from my house. Thankfully the gates get locked between 0000 and 0700 and its manned at all other times my only issue is the shed in which i store it has a few pigeons so my rain cover is more a bird shit catcher! The chain stays in the boot of my car at the flat in case I am being lazy, but unfortunately there is nothing to chain it to!!!


Would be interesting to see if I could fit a substantial enough chain or bike lock through a stank cover and turn it into a ground anchor!
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[janner_10]

Tucked behind the wheely bin!
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