I used to be mega paranoid about leaving my Atlantis locked up anywhere, anytime. Bike theft has gone up and up where I live too, but for some reason, I'm much less worried now. I lock up the rear wheel with the 'sheldon brown method', and walk away. Sometimes I'll cover the Brooks saddle up with the rain cover. But I leave my Carradice bags on the bike, and the front wheel is mounted with a regular allen bolt. Maybe it's because I live in a city where a Riv is looked at as an old clunker. Nobody believes me that you can still buy it new. Just not a very multifaceted cycling market here. The bottom end Giant CX bike with Sora and disc brakes locked next to me is more likely to get pinched than my fendered, racked heavy steel touring bike. I mean, who even WANTS those bikes anymore.... lol.
On Friday, October 21, 2016 at 2:57:25 PM UTC-5, René wrote: > > Why would seeing a Rivendell unlocked would be any different from seeing > any bike unlocked? I would think it's the owner's responsibility to decide > how to go about leaving their bike on the street and continue my way, > perhaps thinking that someone is taking stupid risks needlessly. > > All the suggestions made earlier about bringing it inside and so on are > what I would prefer to do, but you can't always do it. Certainly not > routinely. I've ridden home and then driven out in the car to do an errand > I could have done when commuting by bike, only because I didn't have a lock > with me. > > On a personal note, I sweat blood when I take my Cheviot downtown and > leave it locked to a rack while being in line of sight of the bike. And > haven't been able to bring myself to leave it locked and go into a store or > restaurant where I won't have line of sight on the bike. Being latin > american I'm doubly paranoid about it, even having Pitlocks in addition to > the U-Lock. I will have to learn... to trust the security devices and the > security strategies about making your bike less "attractive" to steal than > the others nearby... > > You can take a risk like Leah did, and I'm sure this is the last time it > happens for her. I would have brought the bike inside and if not allowed, > would have blackmailed them that unless allowed, I wouldn't be able to stay > to do my commitment. The school would have certainly not reimbursed her if > it was stolen. Even if it was locked. > > René > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Garth <gart...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> >> I would ask myself, is the bike in really danger from a thief , or >> from the idea that there is something to steal and protect ? It's just no >> way to live anymore because the moment you deem something as needing >> protection it becomes your personal boat anchor. >> >> Sure the bike may "seem" safe for the meantime, but you's live in >> h-e-double toothpicks as it's then never safe. >> >> Nah, that's just a bad dream ! HaH !! >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Friday, October 21, 2016 at 2:56:11 PM UTC-4, Lungimsam wrote: >>> >>> In light of Leah's recent post on leaving her Rivendell unlocked at >>> school what would you do if you were in public and saw an unlocked >>> Rivendell sitting outside of a building somewhere? What would your concern >>> for the owner of the unlocked Rivendell lead you to do? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
