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stopping wheel theft?
I guess the most obvious way to stop wheel theft is to actually loop a
cable or chain lock through both tires and locked to the frame and/or the bike rack. The other way, but not so easy, is to replace the quick release w/ the screw & nuts. I just recently learned that one can use a hose clamp to prevent the quick release from working unless a thief is properly equipped w/ the right tools. What other ways can be done to prevent wheel theft? |
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On Thu, 21 May 2009 02:03:07, Ablang wrote:
I guess the most obvious way to stop wheel theft is to actually loop a cable or chain lock through both tires and locked to the frame and/or the bike rack. The other way, but not so easy, is to replace the quick release w/ the screw & nuts. I just recently learned that one can use a hose clamp to prevent the quick release from working unless a thief is properly equipped w/ the right tools. What other ways can be done to prevent wheel theft? There exist several options that replace the quick release skewers with more secure locking skewers which require a compact, but specialized tool to release or sometimes a normal hex key. For example: http://www.rei.com/product/732406 http://www.comcycle-usa.com/ProductInfo.aspx?id=3071653 http://www.comcycle-usa.com/ProductInfo.aspx?id=3071870 A google search for "secure bicycle skewer" finds several of them. -a -- Alan Hoyle - - http://www.alanhoyle.com/ |
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SMS writes:
Lockers are now rare in junior high schools so you have to take everything back and forth to school every day. I.e., I see a kid riding his bicycle to the middle school carrying his trombone every day on a specially constructed rear rack. Bravo for him, but if the school had the large instruments to play at school, he wouldn't have to do this. When I was in school, at least, the students owned their own instruments, so this would require him to own two of them, one to play at school, and one to use for practice at home. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org |
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On 21 May, 07:03, Ablang wrote:
I guess the most obvious way to stop wheel theft is to actually loop a cable or chain lock through both tires and locked to the frame and/or the bike rack. The other way, but not so easy, is to replace the quick release w/ the screw & nuts. I just recently learned that one can use a hose clamp to prevent the quick release from working unless a thief is properly equipped w/ the right tools. What other ways can be done to prevent wheel theft? Use a shoulder strap and remove it from the rest of the bike, which is then less desirable. Machines with mismatched wheels still get stolen, one wheeled bicycles, rarely. And hang the remainder 8foot up off a street lamp. You could use nutted axles with securing roll pins through the nuts. |
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Ablang wrote:
I guess the most obvious way to stop wheel theft is to actually loop a cable or chain lock through both tires and locked to the frame and/or the bike rack. The other way, but not so easy, is to replace the quick release w/ the screw & nuts. I just recently learned that one can use a hose clamp to prevent the quick release from working unless a thief is properly equipped w/ the right tools. What other ways can be done to prevent wheel theft? I stopped using cable or chain locks after my last bike was stolen (1969). I still have (and use) the original Kryptonite. If the circumstances permit, I'll remove the front wheel & put the "U" through it, the rear & frame. When I can't, I'll just take the front wheel (with frame pump & saddle bag) along with me. |
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"someone" wrote: (clip) You could use nutted axles with securing roll pins through the nuts. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remember to add a drift punch and hammer to your tool kit. Sounds a little "nuts." ;-) |
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On May 22, 11:13*am, Peter Cole wrote:
Same here (Boston area), good question. My impression is that street safety is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Streets are deemed unsafe, so no one uses them, so drivers come to expect no "impediments", speed and carelessness go up, and then the streets really are unsafe. [snip] With GPS navigation, cell phone glued to the ear and satellite radio ambiance, the pedal crankers in the road are reduced to some dim abstraction, blurred by speed and tinted glass until they're just part of your master of the universe video game. [snip] We have been sold on a seamless experience. We want the TV commercial version -- empty streets (slightly wet for dramatic reflections), green lights all through midtown, sultry model in evening gown riding shotgun. Instead we get Tom Joad, bumper to bumper in rush hour logjams. It's no wonder people are a bit testy. Tom Joad, at least, drove a HOV and/or hauled freight. It's all those 1.1 occupant cars that clog things up. I like your video game analogy - well said. |
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