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Please take care of your bicycle. One of the most helpful articles I've read concerning how to properly use one's U-Lock can be found on Sheldon Browns encyclopedic web site. If you are a cyclist, please take a moment to read it. I must admit that it took me a few days to trust his method, but I have not had a problem with wheel or seat theft . . . yet.

Here is the core of the locking strategy, copied exactly from the longer article written by Sheldon Brown:

People tend to buy the big clunky U-locks because they don't know how to use them properly. A U-lock should go around the rear rim and tire, somewhere inside the rear triangle of the frame. There is no need to loop it around the seat tube as well, because the wheel cannot be pulled through the rear triangle.

And may your bicycle take good care of you. Ride on!