How To Lock Up A Bike With A Cable

If your wheels are quick release remove the front wheel and put it beside the rear wheel and frame.

How to lock up a bike with a cable.

Push a loop of the cable through the rails of your saddle. Use a d lock on the rear wheel pass it through the frame and an immovable object. Position your lock off the ground with the keyhole facing down. Make sure what you lock your bike to cannot be cut.

Lock according to value frame first then back wheel and finally front wheel. Lock the free end in the d lock. A 16mm cable real thick in other words can be sheared with a bolt cutters or cut with a hack saw but it s one hell of job. Then push one end of the cable through the front wheel pass one loop through the other loop and secure the first loop to the main lock.

Secure the front wheel using one end of the cable. Catch u lock by your non dominant hand. The advantage of this method is that the cable is very light. With the help of a u lock or a chain lock this can be done fairly easily.

Attach a u lock or chain around the rear wheel the frame and the bike rack as above. The less room inside of the u lock or chain the more difficult it will be for thieves to use their tools. Take a peak at. Here our host amanda teaches you how to properly lock your bike.

Press and twirl the pen into the keyhole. Use a d lock on rear wheel through frame and an immovable object. Secure by passing the free end of the cable through the loop. Secure the free end in the d lock.

Grasp the ballpoint pen by your dominant hand and coil it into the lock at the time of pushing rigidly. Secure the front wheel using one end of the cable by pushing it through. Never use just a cable lock. A guy i met at a downtown bike rack showed me his 16mm cable lock that a thief had tried to cut twice bolt cutters hacksaw.

Slide your u lock through your frame and both wheels. Get a pen that fits well inside the keyhole after the cap has been detached. The thief dented it but never severed it. Push a loop of the cable through the rails of your saddle.

The ideal lock system is a good u lock or heavy duty chain and a second lock like a cable.