So…. Some scrote has chained their bike to the railing outside my house. It’s a half decebt trak hybrid.

Its been there a week and we’re a bit pissed about it. Partly as no permission was asked and also as it advertises that we have bikes. Plus if it was only overnight (it arrived when our neighbours had a late night party) we’d be happy

Do I cut it off or leave it there even though its blocking part of the pathway.

it’ll be cynic_al

Cut and dump it at the police station.

PS

I mean cut the lock and not the bike…..

Ask your neighbours if they know the owner. If not, cut it off.

I assume they ignored the signs ?

I’ve been tempted to cut the frame and leave the lock intact

Get a grip, leave it alone. Put a passive aggressive note on it if you must.

Id just put your own lock on it too..

Do i need permission to park my car on the steet outside yours too ?

Ask you neighbour if they know as some poor sod could be sat at home thinking he had had a good weekend but can’t remember where he left his bike.

Trail rat – no you don’t. If you knew where we live you’ll understand why chaining a bike to our railing is a little weird

I’d throw myself off the severn bridge if i had all that shit to deal with.

Oh its one of those areas.

Best get the home owners association onto it.

Remove and scrap the railing with the bike still attached. That will show them! 😈

You have railings, how working class most of us middle classes have either walls or hedges

Shit, I thought this was a forum for upper middle class **** who had swapped golf for mountain biking. Sorry – posted it in the wrong place 😉

You have railings, how working class most of us middle classes have either walls or hedges

Gravel straight off pavement, dahlings.

If you knew where we live you’ll understand why chaining a bike to our railing is a little weird

Downing Street or Buckingham Palace?

If you still live where you use to then they have no right to lock it to your railings plus the paths are narrow enough around there crazy.Cut the lock and take bike to police station.

Do i need permission to park my car on the steet outside yours too ?

Are you fine with random people parking in your driveway?

Anyway I’d have a word with the neighbour.

Gravel straight off pavement, dahlings.

Dear god, imagine living in a place with pavement

Dobiejessmo, Yep, still there.

Would talk to the neighbour but they’ve gone away for Christmas. Won’t see them now until January

I used to work for a really sh*t shop in Kensington High Street, London called Cyclopedia – unsurprisingly it went bust

the owner (a rather unpleasant man) would cut the locks of bicycles left on railings next to the shop, and replace said lock with a cable tie. Bike would normally be gone within the hour due to local bike thieves

owner would deny all knowledge of this activity.

he also did this for customers who had left their bikes in our workshop for more than 3 months, and failed to answer phonecalls or emails asking them to collect their bike. bike would be cable tied to railings outside shop and also gone within the hour. customer would be told that bike had been sold to recover “storage fees”

Lol, my wife has just said,totally unprompted, that if the bike isnt gone by Sunday night she’s selling it.

Seems I’m not the only one who’s peed off by it

A middle aged dude who obviously likes a drink or two regularly chains he bike up outside our house, I tend to not get bothered, as its one of those things that come with living 30 metres from the Main Street in town. I’ve actually had to stop myself nipping out and lubing the chain and moving the brake levers away from their 12 o’clock position.

Chill.

I’ve actually had to stop myself nipping out and lubing the chain and moving the brake levers away from their 12 o’clock position.

We turned a house bedsit last week for drugs. The lad had the handlebars on his bike on the wrong way round – 180 degrees on a horizontal plane so front brake lever on left facing backwards. I offered to sort it out for him, and would have, but judging by his response he either liked them that way round or thought I was taking the piss 🙂

Do you own the railings ?

Do you own the railings ?

Be very surprised if bush doesn’t, they are the railings that separate the small front yard from the VERY narrow pavement, it’s a traditional victorian terrace.

I’ve actually had to stop myself nipping out and lubing removing the chain and moving the brake levers away from their 12 o’clock position round to the “euro” setup.

😈

OP has a right to remove stuff that is on his property.Cut the lock tonight and leave it propped against a lamppost.

Yep, railings belong to me / the house

I did release the Qr on the front wheel last Monday but a pang of guilt made me put it back to how it was.

The amount of bike theft round here I’m truly surprised its not been nicked yet

If you knew where we live you’ll understand why chaining a bike to our railing is a little weird

Downing Street or Buckingham Palace? [/quote]

Or gorilla cage at London Zoo?

If it’s just the location bothering you then cut the lock and leave it in next doors back garden. Bloody rude to chain a bike there by the sounds of it.

Jesus wept. Supposedly a cycling forum…now a bedwetters and curtain twitchers one.

Definitely unacceptable. Especially if you live in a 3rd floor flat and they’re your balcony railings.

Railings?

Pah! No one can chain a bike to a ha-ha!

How is this affecting you? Why is it upsetting?.

I used to live in a new estate, was full of people like the OP that thought they owned the place.

I lasted 7 months.

“,Do i need permission to park my car on the steet outside yours too ?

Are you fine with random people parking in your driveway?”

Ah seems i was not privvy to the fact its on the inside of the railings ergo in his garden.

Are their tyres/valves in line? If not, angle grind that mother hubbard.

If they chain is on your side of the fence you could charge the owner rent.

Clamp the chain.