goraman
27-01-2016, 18:49
Has any one ever come back to find there bike stolen and thought, "GOOD FOR ME, NEVER LIKED MY BIKE" of course not.
Bicycles can become a very personal thing with lots of adjustments and personal choices making it fit us and our needs.
We can spend lots of money to get it right and when you do and some pile of bipedal excrement comes along and steals it, there is a real sense of both loss and being violated.
What do you use short of several angry pit-bulls and Great Danes trained to kill tied to it.
The locks I use are very heavy and bulky but so far people have passed my bike by for easier pray.
My heavy security is 4 ft. Pewag cropper proof chain and an Abloy 362 padlock, Schlage D lock and 15 ft. of heavy cable.
The key is to make the whole bike a pain in the butt, I run the chain through the frame and rear wheel to a very hard solid steel pole or rack, then D lock the front wheel to another pole or the frame of the bike then run the cable through the wheels,basket, ect.... I also have a small chain that stays from the frame to the seat.
A cable armored or not is never used as the first line of defense, it is not used to secure wheels, but less expensive parts and is just one more layer to slow them down.
2 solid locks are always recommended, the cable is just there to be the last straw that keeps them walking.
Bicycles can become a very personal thing with lots of adjustments and personal choices making it fit us and our needs.
We can spend lots of money to get it right and when you do and some pile of bipedal excrement comes along and steals it, there is a real sense of both loss and being violated.
What do you use short of several angry pit-bulls and Great Danes trained to kill tied to it.
The locks I use are very heavy and bulky but so far people have passed my bike by for easier pray.
My heavy security is 4 ft. Pewag cropper proof chain and an Abloy 362 padlock, Schlage D lock and 15 ft. of heavy cable.
The key is to make the whole bike a pain in the butt, I run the chain through the frame and rear wheel to a very hard solid steel pole or rack, then D lock the front wheel to another pole or the frame of the bike then run the cable through the wheels,basket, ect.... I also have a small chain that stays from the frame to the seat.
A cable armored or not is never used as the first line of defense, it is not used to secure wheels, but less expensive parts and is just one more layer to slow them down.
2 solid locks are always recommended, the cable is just there to be the last straw that keeps them walking.