Where can I mount my lock?

[Norreka]

I have a Kryptonite U lock - which I like. However I can't quite work out where to mount the bracket so I can carry it on my bike (which I'd really prefer to do as it either rattles around on the pannier rack or gets put and inevitably lost inside whatever bag I have).

The bracket was originally on the seat tube, but I can't fit the lock inside the frame triangle when I've got a bottle in the cage (which is on the down tube). I can angle it so it avoids the bottle but then my knee keeps hitting the lock while I'm pedalling - which is even more annoying!

Is it really silly to attach the lock to the forks? Or the seat stays? I've been fiddling with it for a while and can't work out the best way the fix it.

 

[ianrauk]

I've seen U Locks attached to seat stays so would say that's your solution.

 

[mjr]

Mine mostly gets strapped to the top of whatever bag I'm using these days as that way the bag stops it from rattling much. I did used to have a way of locking it through the side of a dog-leg rack and permanent bungees so it didn't rattle or foul the wheel, but neither the Dutchie or the Falcon have dog-legs on their racks.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Seat stays or tie it down to the pannier rack so it doesn't rattle about or as an alternative thought, have you considered a mounting arm for the bottle cage that attaches to the seatpost or bars and leaves the inner triangle free for the lock unhindered?

 

[jim55]

On the exposed seat post pointing backwards over the back wheel

 

[jim55]

Top left image

 

[mjr]

View attachment 147087 Top left image

Is the top right an example of how to chip paint and the bottom left an example of how not to lock a bike with a QR wheel?

And while I'm here: how much seatpost exposed?

 

[jim55]

what part of top left don't u understand

 

[mjr]

what part of top left don't u understand ,

Top left is fine, if your bike's so small for you that you've a foot of seatpost exposed.

 

[ColinJ]

And while I'm here: how much seatpost exposed?

It's a very sloping top tube. That is about how much seatpost is exposed on my sloping top-tubed mountain bike ...

(That is a suspension post but it only has about 0.5 inches of sag on it.)

 

[HLaB]

When I carried a Krrptonite D Lock it was seat post mounted but the bracket was rotated outwards so that the lock was parallel with the seat stays I think that would work.

 

[HLaB]

When I carried a Krrptonite D Lock it was seat post mounted but the bracket was rotated outwards so that the lock was parallel with the seat stays I think that would work.

 

[Willam]

carry mine in my back pocket, tho I do have the smallest one they make.

 

[Scoosh]

Can you move the bracket from the seat tube or is that the difficulty ?

IIRC, to remove the bracket, you need to remove the lock, then take off the rubber protector from the bracket, revealing an allen screw which you undo and then remove the bracket and move to a chosen new position.

HTH.

Wouldn't recommend attaching to the forks, BTW.

 

[si_c]

If you've got a smaller frame and mounting the lock fouls the bottle cage, then you can try this approach