Bicycle parking in Brixton

[Earl Aelfheah]

Where is the best / safest place to leave a bike when getting the tube in the morning?

[rendelharris]

When I lived down that way I would lock up at the hoops outside the police station, on the assumption that being overlooked by the station and with lots of police coming and going would put off all but the most brazen thieves. Never had a bike nicked or tampered with there.

[diable rouge]

I've always locked mine to one of the numerous bike stands in the pedestrianized area to the side of M&S, not far from the Tube. Never been pinched or interfered with either...but I live in hope!

[malumbu]

Either hidden away where nobody goes or on display to all which makes it more obvious if someone wants to nick it.

Or by a more desirable bike with a poorer lock!

Hate leaving my bike out but only ever had a rear light nicked in Brixton, outside the Ritzy years ago.

(Bikes nicked Waterloo, Holborn and Northumberland Avenue).

[Earl Aelfheah]

Thanks all. Is it usually OK finding a free space outside the tube at around 8 O'clock?

[Robert Poste's Child]

diable rouge Wrote:

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> I've always locked mine to one of the numerous

> bike stands in the pedestrianized area to the side

> of M&S, not far from the Tube. Never been pinched

> or interfered with either...but I live in hope!

That's the only place I avoid after returning late at night a couple of years ago to find, as I fumbled in the dark with a strangely slippery D-lock, that someone had vomited copiously all over it, including handlebars, saddle, frame, brakes, inside the chain and pedals.

Anywhere well lit is fine, and I usually go straight for the stands outside TK Maxx rather than trying to find one outside the station as there's always room there.

I once locked up my bike in a forest of bikes outside the Ritzy, only to come back at midnight to find it standing on its own attached to nothing, yet not nicked.