[Closed] This is why bikes are chained up in bike shops

Madness not to lock up a £6500 bike, hopefully they will from now on.

I've never seen a bike chained up in a shop, maybe it's a thing in that London.

It's not a thing in the US unfortunately

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/bike-shop-employee-seriously-injured-attempting-to-stop-theives.html

I’ve never seen a bike chained up in a shop, maybe it’s a thing in that London.

It usually is, here in That London. 🙁

Nobeer - they are all locked up in Evans Braehead

Asking for trouble imo,£6500 worth of goods with two wheels and no doubt 12 gears too escape with, with no means of security by the door??come on,this could of been a lot worst for the poor chap having too apprehend bike,what if it wasn't a non violent scrote,maybe a couple of post code gang members hooded up and armed with your run of the mill kitchen knives who need to make a few quid for the weekend???
I've been in a few shops that have at least a cable lock,especially with an item worth as much as that,sensible me thinks,fair play too the chap.
Could you see the getaway wheels??

I’ve never seen a bike chained up in a shop, maybe it’s a thing in that London.

I's been standard policy in all Evans Cycles shops for at least 20 years - it was brought in when I was working there after 3 guys walked in and helped themselves to about £8000 worth of Specialized full sus bikes that were in pride of place on the shop floor - unfortunately in direct line of the front door.

£8000 back then was a lot of money - 3 top end full sus bikes. I know that now, you can't get one top end full sus for that.... 😉

One shop in these parts has an electric door release operated by the staff.

6500 quid Yeti unlocked next to the door with no-one even in the front of the shop? Good on the workshop guy for being switched on, but he shouldn't be put in the position of having to keep an eye on a CCTV monitor as well as doing his job back there.

Another advantage of the newer wheel sizes. He'd have got away if it was a 26"

When I worked in TBC the bike in the front window (and therefore adjacent to the door) had a cable lock on. That was 10 years ago.

A lock is no guarantee, nor is having the bike away from the door.

A couple of examples from my time working for Halfords (about 20 years ago).

First one was by the entrance. There was a display of top-end Carreras around the £500-600. They had all been locked together with an alarm system. A cable that when broken sounds an alarm. A group of ne'er do goods entered the store and cause a disturbance while one of them dropped the control box for the alarm into an ice cream tub full of water. That cause it to die allowing him to cut the cable and start trying to make it out the door with a couple o<span style="background-color: #f6d5d9; font-size: 12.8px;">f </span><span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">bikes. If he'd just taken one he might of got away with it.</span>

Second time the store (a different one) was very quiet. I was out the back having a meeting with the manager. Scrot walks up to the tills with a brand new mid-range GT and tells the young on the check-out that he's just had it serviced and the guy on the cycle desk told him to just take it out - no charge. She let him walk out without questioning it. I finished my meeting and immediately saw the bike gone and asked when it had go sold. Mupppet in cycle counter didn't even realise it had gone. Cue him getting a massive b*llockign form me (dept supervisor) followed by the same from the store manager.

Happy days.

Asking for trouble imo,£6500 worth of goods with two wheels and no doubt 12 gears too escape with, with no means of security by the door??

No pedals. Would have been funnier if he'd tried to pedal it away!

I can see why wide bars are popular.....

We had a decpetion theft like that too.

Our store till system knew which member of staff had done which sale and it tallied it up at the end of the week for salesperson bonuses so there was always a bit of a competition to get a "good" sale.

Anyway, newboy on the shop floor, bit of a jack-the-lad; some guy comes in starts talking bikes (around the £2000 mark), knows what he's on about, wants to try a couple out. Newboy takes the guys credit card, doesn't even look at it, guy goes off on a bike, comes back after 10 minutes; yeah, it's not that comfy, I've got a bad back, let's try a full sus. That one in the window, the £2000 Klein Mantra. Newboy is seeing his name against a £2000 sale here and nothing else. Yeah, off you go mate, let's sort this for you mate, see you soon mate!

20 minutes later the manager comes onto the shop floor - you sold that Klein yet?
Oh no, he's still out for test ride.
Manager went quiet and then asked how long he'd been gone. Ah, only 5 minutes, he'll be back soon. Er yeah, try 25 minutes.

One phone call to the bank and the credit card was of course stolen.
Newboy got a massive bollocking and the store removed the staff name under sale thing, added a whole new raft of policies around signing a piece of paper to make sure the signatures matched, running a test transaction to make sure the customer knew the PIN....

Amazingly the bike turned up about a year later when the police raided a house connected with drug dealing.

Cue him getting a massive b*llockign form me

Swoon.

Never trust a guy wearing only one glove. Have we learned nothing from Michael Jackson?

maybe a couple of post code gang members hooded up and armed with your run of the mill kitchen knives who need to make a few quid for the weekend???

So which would I prefer as a bike shop employee:

a) "post code gang members" coming in and taking a bike, perhaps running after them and being threatened.
b) having to be threatened first to open up the locks.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, sure if I had a shop I'd probably lock up the bikes - at least if I wasn't able to quickly getup to the shop floor - but back when I worked in an LBS we lost one or two bikes from the basement through a hole knocked in the wall (the alarm at night only covered the ground floor)