Poorly locked bicycles!

I was compelled to upright a poorly locked bicycle on a tight busy sidewalk at Clark south of Division.

It looked like a major trip hazard lying all on its side like that. With people being aware enough to walk around it.

My poor photo example, not exact bicycle, but same position.

Should I have even bothered?

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Permalink Reply by Ken Gray on October 9, 2011 at 9:36am

It was the right thing to do even though you took a chance of some nut job jumping out of somewhere claiming that you were messing with his bike. I've heard it said that no good deed goes unpunished, but I can't live like that. Sounds like you can't either.

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Permalink Reply by S.Presley☠ on October 9, 2011 at 2:35pm

I've had my perfectly up right bike laying down when I came back to it...wondered if someone just knocked it over. Picking a bike up is a good thing.

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Permalink Reply by Juan 2-3 or more mi. on October 10, 2011 at 7:09am

Thanks, the thought of the owner freaking out was on my mind. But the thought of pedestrians hating on us cyclists because they tripped on NuFred's poorly locked bike bothered me more. Besides, I still had to lock up on the other side of it.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on October 10, 2011 at 7:19am

In the big picture, picking up the bike is usually the best thing - better not to have a fallen bike create a hazard for pedestrians or have it get damaged.