BIKEPGH MESSAGE BOARD ARCHIVE

If your bike is in view you can always just lean the bike against the window and lock the rear wheel to the frame. There are also usually no parking signs and fire lane signs near the curb.

The Walgreens by me only has benches that aren't bolted down. I've locked to the side of those because they're better than nothing. I figure the odds are small that someone wants to throw my bike and a bench in a truck in the time I'm picking up a prescription.

@IB, I've had trouble locking up at Waterworks, too. There aren't any signs to lock up to, I ended up locking to a bench in front of the theater.

Another good reason to use the belt & suspenders approach - ie ulock & cable.

I have also been known to lock my bike to two shopping carts, reasoning that it would be hard to push two carts plus a bike very far.

A cable gives you more options than the Bulldog Mini. It is less secure, but of course you won't be leaving your bike alone that long.

At the Waterfront theater I lock to a tree behind some bushes, thinking my bike is less likely to be a target if it's hidden.

For that spot, you could chain to the perimeter fence, but I would probably run the U-Lock around the back tire and frame and keep an eye on it next to the window. Where is a thief going to go? Run with the bike towards the dumb Getgo? Run with it in the parking lot? The best anyone could do is have a pickup truck at the ready and throw it in the back and try and get out of that area. Good luck with all the traffic on Freeport and there are a ton of cops in that area that don't do much. How many calls do you think O'Hara gets. Yeah Waterworks is in the city, but to get out of there you need to get through part of O'Hara or even worse for a thief, Aspinwall. It isn't a high crime area for such a thing. Shoplifting of course is a huge problem with the East Liberty crowd always for some odd reason shopping there.

i lock to the no bikes permitted signs when i go there.

thank for lumping all of us in the east liberty area together as theives, hcurtis. why don't you just say "black people" instead, since that's what you so obviously mean? afraid it might sound racist? maybe thats because it is.

I ran my cable around the bike and a couple of shopping carts when I went to the Cedar Ave Giant Eagle a couple weeks ago. I got there just as they were starting to put the carts in for the night, and they had to stop when they got to the ones I was locked to.

Not a problem at the Pines Plaza Shop & Save; the carts are out 24/7. If I went into Citizens Bank, I rolled the bike in between the double doors. For the 5 minutes I was going to be in there, I doubt anyone needed to get into that big safe I had to block.

I knew I wasn't just failing at life when I couldn't get my lock around those handicapped signs either.

Fuck the police.

A "no bicycles" sign is THE place to lock a bike to! Especially when you come out with a bagful of product you purchased there!

I am trying to do the right thing and suppress my immediate desire to LOL at FTP!

At Waterworks, on the end near Caribou Coffee - go over towards La Capella and find the steel hand rail - I've locked there before.

At the other end, find the walk between the movie theater and where Burgatory/ Uncle Sam's is. There are a couple of signs there - including a "protected" sign in the mulch in the corner I've locked up at.

There are some other spots - a fence near Alladin's, and a sign by the Citizen's Bank (which I lock up to when I go to Giant Eagle).

(By the way I lock with a regular size u-lock.)

I ride and lock my bike over there a lot and even though there are the "no skateboards/ bikes" signs, I've never been bothered. (I suspect the signs are intended to prevent bmx/trick bikes and skateboarders on the concrete planters there.)

Eat n shart has racks to lock up to, in case I missed that being mentioned.