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Hey chaps,
I'm a student at Glasgow school of art currently working on a project to design a new way of securing a bike against theft. I was hoping you could post a few stories if you had a bike that was stolen and what you were using to secure it at the time and if you now use a new way of securing it? Or maybe you think you've devised a thief proof way of securing your bike. Thanks in advance |
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"twofourfour" wrote in message ... Hey chaps, I'm a student at Glasgow school of art currently working on a project to design a new way of securing a bike against theft. I was hoping you could post a few stories if you had a bike that was stolen and what you were using to secure it at the time and if you now use a new way of securing it? Or maybe you think you've devised a thief proof way of securing your bike. Thanks in advance -- twofourfour You are talkig about a battle that has been waged for a thousand years with no end in sight. How do you prevent evil? I'd like to know. OK, the best way to theft proof your bike - don't lock it up and keep it with you at all times. |
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OK, the best way to theft proof your bike - don't lock it up and keep it with you at all times.- Hide quoted text - That said, I wonder how many people here do that? For example, cycle to the grocery store to buy bread for tonight's pasta supper and bananas for tomorrow's breakfast, and bring the bike in to the store with them. If anybody has done that, what's the typical reaction.? Cullen |
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twofourfour writes: Hey chaps, I'm a student at Glasgow school of art currently working on a project to design a new way of securing a bike against theft. I was hoping you could post a few stories if you had a bike that was stolen and what you were using to secure it at the time and if you now use a new way of securing it? Or maybe you think you've devised a thief proof way of securing your bike. I can tell you this much: the best way to lose a bike to theft is to be lax; to reason you won't be away from it for very long so there's no reason to lock it. It'll be gone practically before you can blink your eyelids. No bicycle is theftproof, and a bicycle's vulnerability to theft is a function of time. And if they can't steal it after a certain period of time, they'll wreck/vandalise/moyderlize it. I'm sure you could plot a graph about the likelihood of a publicly parked bike over time either being stolen, or being vandalised, with both likelihoods will have their own respective lines. There'll come a point where the lines intersect. If the bike is oh-so-securely locked, over time the potential vandalism line will supercede and shoot past the potential theft line. Ya can't win. cheers, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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On Sep 26, 6:34*pm, " wrote:
OK, the best way to theft proof your bike - don't lock it up and keep it with you at all times.- Hide quoted text - That said, I wonder how many people here do that? For example, cycle to the grocery store to buy bread for tonight's pasta supper and bananas for tomorrow's breakfast, and bring the bike in to the store with them. If anybody has done that, what's the typical reaction.? Cullen Well, since you ask, I do this on a regular basis and have been for more than 10 years. The local Albertsons store (in Benbrook TX) has never made me feel anything less than WELCOME to shop in their store. The local Brookshires store went through a 'stupid' phase, soon after the Katrina hurricane, when they wouldn't let me shop there unless I left my backpack in their office while I walked around the store. This was because some of the evacuees that were being housed here had been coming in with backpacks and, allegedly, hiding some food in them. In truth, Abertsons bananas always seem to be much better quality than Brookshire's, so it was no loss to not be allowed in there. Lewis. ***** |
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Bellsouth Ijit 2.0 - 'Roid Rage Edition ® wrote:
"twofourfour" wrote in message ... Hey chaps, I'm a student at Glasgow school of art currently working on a project to design a new way of securing a bike against theft. I was hoping you could post a few stories if you had a bike that was stolen and what you were using to secure it at the time and if you now use a new way of securing it? Or maybe you think you've devised a thief proof way of securing your bike. Thanks in advance -- twofourfour You are talkig about a battle that has been waged for a thousand years with no end in sight. How do you prevent evil? I'd like to know. OK, the best way to theft proof your bike - don't lock it up and keep it with you at all times. I would think an exploding dyepack like banks use would be amusing. Little black box, blinking red light....... Oh yeah, put some tear gas in there too. |
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On Sep 26, 10:32 pm, twofourfour
wrote: Hey chaps, I'm a student at Glasgow school of art currently working on a project to design a new way of securing a bike against theft. I was hoping you could post a few stories if you had a bike that was stolen and what you were using to secure it at the time and if you now use a new way of securing it? Or maybe you think you've devised a thief proof way of securing your bike. Thanks in advance -- twofourfour http://www.sheldonbrown.com/lock-strategy.html I've only had bikes stolen where I neglected to lock to *something*, like a few years ago when I lost a favorite bike that I left on the back porch for a "minute" locked to itself--I forgot it overnight, and I've lost a couple in Gothenburg to those idiotic European integrated locks that I used in front of the shops. So using the above strategy, purchase whatever level of strength of u- lock that your town's thieves are intimidated by, and hope for the best. Mine are thwarted by a Pitbull mini with a length of extra cable for accessories. Mind--if you ride a nice enough bike--any lock can be opened, it's just a matter of time and patience. |
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twofourfour wrote:
Hey chaps, I'm a student at Glasgow school of art currently working on a project to design a new way of securing a bike against theft. I have been very lucky and have never had a bike stolen. Well, one time I had a bike with a cracked frame. I had removed all the components and had put the frame in the back yard for a few days, waiting for the weekend when I could take it to the scrap yard for recycling. Somebody stole it! I usually lock my bike like this when I need to leave it unattended: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/lock-strategy.html -- K. Lang may your lum reek. |
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