I bowed my head a little

Richard Bates

It was a sad moment yesterday, as I removed my bike lock from it's
home of the last three and a half years - the Sheffield stand at
Birmingham Children's Hospital.

My next employer, at which I start in early January, has a metal shed
with a concrete base, inside which has been fixed a anchor point. I do
hope my bike gets on with the lawnmower...

Unfortunately, my bike will have no company from others of the same
species as I will be the only cyclist. But I'm told that several
people walk to work.

Lockers and a shower are of course provided too, as requested in my
interview 2 months ago!

How exciting.

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you may also be interested in 'Garfield - The Movie'.
... erm, how do they figure that one out?

hyweljenkins@hotmail.com

Richard Bates wrote:
> It was a sad moment yesterday, as I removed my bike lock from it's
> home of the last three and a half years - the Sheffield stand at
> Birmingham Children's Hospital.
>
> My next employer, at which I start in early January, has a metal shed
> with a concrete base, inside which has been fixed a anchor point. I
do
> hope my bike gets on with the lawnmower...
>
> Unfortunately, my bike will have no company from others of the same
> species as I will be the only cyclist. But I'm told that several
> people walk to work.
>
> Lockers and a shower are of course provided too, as requested in my
> interview 2 months ago!

Lucky boy. Good luck in your new job. Our place has an underground
car park that averages 5 or 6 bike thefts a year. If security was
better (or if security existed), and there was a shower, I'd get a road
bike and would ride the 25 mile (each way) journey to work. It
wouldn't take much longer than driving it.

--
Hywel

dkahn400

Richard Bates wrote:

> Unfortunately, my bike will have no company from others of the
> same species as I will be the only cyclist. But I'm told that
> several people walk to work.

The use of a sensible transport mode can be catching. With luck you may
pass the contagion on. Good luck in your new job!

--
Dave...

Paul - xxx

Richard Bates composed the following ...
> It was a sad moment yesterday, as I removed my bike lock from it's
> home of the last three and a half years - the Sheffield stand at
> Birmingham Children's Hospital.

I always wondered if people left D-locks and the like so they could
'reserve' their place, or if people had simply mistakenly left them, or even
if the bikes had been stolen ..

> How exciting.

Good luck for your new job.

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Paul ...
http://www.4x4prejudice.org/index.php
(8(!) Homer Rules ...
"A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using."

Colin Blackburn

Paul - xxx wrote:
> Richard Bates composed the following ...
>
>>It was a sad moment yesterday, as I removed my bike lock from it's
>>home of the last three and a half years - the Sheffield stand at
>>Birmingham Children's Hospital.
>
>
> I always wondered if people left D-locks and the like so they could
> 'reserve' their place, [...]

It's not about reserving a place, it's about avoiding carrying a three
pound lump of metal each way on the ride.

Colin

Richard Bates

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:26:49 -0000, "Paul - xxx"
<notcheckedever@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I always wondered if people left D-locks and the like so they could
>'reserve' their place, or if people had simply mistakenly left them, or even
>if the bikes had been stolen ..

It just saves me carrying a heavy lock each way.
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you may also be interested in 'Garfield - The Movie'.
... erm, how do they figure that one out?

Gordon Taylor

I happen to work at a number of places and therefore have a number of
D-locks that I leave locked in various bike sheds.

Turned up on Friday at an office I had not been to in two weeks only to
find that the bike shed had gone! Soon found the new one that had been
build. However, no lock to be seen.

Phoned facilities to see if they could find it, quite expecting them to
say "what do you expect if you leave it locked to bike rack". However,
ten minutes later and I am off to the LBS to buy myself a nice new lock
all paid for by employer.

Gordon


Richard Bates wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:26:49 -0000, "Paul - xxx"
> <notcheckedever@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I always wondered if people left D-locks and the like so they could
>>'reserve' their place, or if people had simply mistakenly left them, or even
>>if the bikes had been stolen ..
>
>
> It just saves me carrying a heavy lock each way.

Peter B

"Colin Blackburn" <colin.blackburn@durham.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:cq91pn$5qm$1@heffalump.dur.ac.uk...
> Paul - xxx wrote:
> > I always wondered if people left D-locks and the like so they could
> > 'reserve' their place, [...]
>
> It's not about reserving a place, it's about avoiding carrying a three
> pound lump of metal each way on the ride.

Shounds a bit whiskey to me, it could get nicked.

Pete

Paul - xxx

Colin Blackburn composed the following ...
> Paul - xxx wrote:
>> Richard Bates composed the following ...
>>
>>> It was a sad moment yesterday, as I removed my bike lock from it's
>>> home of the last three and a half years - the Sheffield stand at
>>> Birmingham Children's Hospital.
>>
>>
>> I always wondered if people left D-locks and the like so they could
>> 'reserve' their place, [...]
>
> It's not about reserving a place, it's about avoiding carrying a three
> pound lump of metal each way on the ride.

Heheheh, I didn't even think of that.

--
Paul ...
http://www.4x4prejudice.org/index.php
(8(!) Homer Rules ...
"A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using."

Badger

Peter B wrote:

> "Colin Blackburn" <colin.blackburn@durham.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:cq91pn$5qm$1@heffalump.dur.ac.uk...
>
>>Paul - xxx wrote:
>>
>>>I always wondered if people left D-locks and the like so they could
>>>'reserve' their place, [...]
>>
>>It's not about reserving a place, it's about avoiding carrying a three
>>pound lump of metal each way on the ride.
>
>
> Shounds a bit whiskey to me, it could get nicked.
>
> Pete
Try it at the uni where I work and you'd find it full of super glue...

Richard Bates

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:49:24 GMT, Badger <the10ths.50th@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

>
>
>Peter B wrote:
>
>> "Colin Blackburn" <colin.blackburn@durham.ac.uk> wrote in message
>> news:cq91pn$5qm$1@heffalump.dur.ac.uk...
>>
>>>Paul - xxx wrote:
>>>
>>>>I always wondered if people left D-locks and the like so they could
>>>>'reserve' their place, [...]
>>>
>>>It's not about reserving a place, it's about avoiding carrying a three
>>>pound lump of metal each way on the ride.
>>
>>
>> Shounds a bit whiskey to me, it could get nicked.
>>
>> Pete
>Try it at the uni where I work and you'd find it full of super glue...

I don't leave locks in public areas. I left this particular one in an
area which was supposedly inaccessible to non-staff.


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you may also be interested in 'Garfield - The Movie'.
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nobody

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:26:49 -0000, "Paul - xxx"
<notcheckedever@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>I always wondered if people left D-locks and the like so they could
>'reserve' their place, or if people had simply mistakenly left them, or even
>if the bikes had been stolen ..
>

This is uk.rec.cycling, not hun.rec.sunlounger.

Badger

Richard Bates wrote:

>>Try it at the uni where I work and you'd find it full of super glue...
>
>
> I don't leave locks in public areas. I left this particular one in an
> area which was supposedly inaccessible to non-staff.
>
The flowers kids are bad enough, but some of the staff and students are
even worse....

Paul - xxx

nobody composed the following ...
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:26:49 -0000, "Paul - xxx"
> <notcheckedever@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I always wondered if people left D-locks and the like so they could
>> 'reserve' their place, or if people had simply mistakenly left them, or
>> even if the bikes had been stolen ..
>>
>
> This is uk.rec.cycling, not hun.rec.sunlounger.

At least they know where their towels are ....

--
Paul ...
http://www.4x4prejudice.org/index.php
(8(!) Homer Rules ...
"A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using."