If there's no place to park your bike, do you take your bike and park it inside some place?
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Noble Experiment at 04.18.08 - 1:44 pm
So i'm at my lunch and there's no place for me to park my bike at the Torrance Crossroads next door to the entrance of Claim Jumpers (i like their boca burgers) and the next bike rack is like 1000 feet in this shoptropolis by office depot (i'd have to walk through a massive parking lot full of clueless drivers) so I just brought my bike inside claim jumpers and parked it by an empty table.
do you engage in situations like this? I always have to do this at least in Torrance.
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take it inside; if someone says something just say, "what bike? ..you must be seeing things. how many fingers am i holding up?"
khaos04.18.08 - 1:51 pm
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Torrance is exactly the problem. although i usually mob around with no lock so i always end up doing this. never get any problems.
HANDBONE04.18.08 - 1:55 pm
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or just lock your bike on a fence or anything permanently fixed to the floor.
HANDBONE04.18.08 - 1:56 pm
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I also do it whenever I forget my lock which is often.
At Mr T's I put it behind the dining counter. I do try to be stealth about it.
The key is to bring it in and walk away from it as fast as possible so when the bike is noticed by the powers, they can't link it to anyone in particular and they give up.
marino04.18.08 - 2:05 pm
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There's no fence close by to the entrance. There is a fence but it's all covered by branches and vine next to an office park. There's literally no fences and the trees don't help with my u-lock either.
luckily management's super chill, so they just let me be with my bike and my lunch and my beer.
but then it gets to me that places here in Torrance where i work at is not bike friendly at all. Pretty much the new shoptropolises they build here have little or no bike parking so there's times i'd have to just bring my bike to trader joes or office depot and park it inside their stores.
Noble Experiment04.18.08 - 2:13 pm
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I never have trouble with this at restaurants - though I've never tried it at anyplace that might have delusions of grandeur. But plenty of retail places (apple store...hello!) won't even let me stick my bike inside in some unobtrusive place. So I don't give those places my business. There's always a friendlier alternative that clearly deserves my custom far more..
ideasculptor04.19.08 - 12:55 pm
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I like to use a lack of typical bike parking/locking as an excuse to get creative.
Lock it to the branches of a tree. Lock it to a sewer grate. Lock it 6 feet up a fence. Light polls, stop signs, parking signs etc...all good ways to store and showcase your favorite method of transportation.
Eric Hair04.19.08 - 1:03 pm
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