Coming Soon to a Poorly Locked Bike near You

I started tagging recently. Not the kind that involves aerosol cans and a talent for bubble lettering, though.

Along the lines of what I hinted in last Thursday's post, I've begun affixing tags—laminated pieces of paper—to bikes I spot on the street and deem insufficiently secured. A bike with only its frame locked, say, and anything relying solely on a cable "lock," for sure. I rubberband a tag over the bike's seatpost or around its handlebars. The first batch of tags features both a scannable QR code that takes the scanner to my post about Hal Ruzal's locking advice and an older-fashioned text version of BTB's URL. I've got two goals, one self-serving and one not: I want to both drive traffic to BTB and coax folks to better safeguard their bikes. I'll be traveling for work over the coming months—to Atlanta and Denver and Portland, OR—and I just might tuck some tags in my carry-on.