What do you do when you forget your lock?

Yesterday I forgot my lock. Luckily one of the staff at Julius Meinl let me lock up to her bike (thank you) while I got my morning coffee and did some work. Normally I would have rode home quick but I had to get online for work and had a dentist appointment. My awesome dentist also let me bring my bike in to his office.

I don't like to inconvenience people but what else could I have done? What would you do? Do you find people receptive to bringing your bike in to their establishments?

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Permalink Reply by Bike Bloke on March 31, 2012 at 10:21am

Well, I didn't forget the lock, but I did forget the key twice. First time I got away with it - only a combo cable lock to 'secure' the bike. The second time, the Friday after Thanksgiving, my wife had the day off and I had to work. I wasn't as careful as I'd usually be leaving home and I forgot the keys. The bike lasted until about 4pm with just that cable lock on a pole outside a convenience store at a busy intersection in Lakeview. My place of work was on that corner at street level, so the thief must have been really brazen.

Lesson learned. With the new bike being even more of a temptation to the sticky-fingered, even with two U-locks, I got permission from the boss to put the bike in the basement. The basement has a ramp, so it wasn't much extra hassle, and I had the additional benefit of keeping the bike dry while at work.

I needed a new bike anyway (and I hope the thief enjoyed fixing the spokes that pinged regularly), but one annoying aspect was that fittings for lights and mudguards were gone and rendered said lights and mudguards useless.