On Nov 10, 11:00 pm, jose <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All. I just moved to Oakland (Rockridge) from Houston and I'm > curious what peoples opinions are parking your Rivs here are. > > In Houston, I felt fairly comfortable with locking up my Atlantis with > bags/lights/brooks onboard with just a cable lock during the day. No > one there pays too much attention to an old looking slow bike with a > bunch of crap on it (ha!). > > Here I see only beater-bikes with no bags/lights/brooks parked on the > street. > > So I'm wondering how secure I should go. Never leave lights on the > bike? Cover up the Rivendell logos? Get one of those locking seat > post clamp things? I realize that no bike on the street is ever safe, > but I'd like get a sense of what the probability of getting my stuff > jacked here is. > > Oh, and I'm asking for during the day coffee and errand type trips. > For BART parking and late-night pub crawls I just bought a $50 > craigslist special, but I would really like to be on my Atlantis as > much as I can be. > > Thanks in advance, > -- J.
I live about 6 blocks west of you in Temescal and I NEVER leave my bike anywhere out of my sight. Period. Theft in the area is oppurtunistic, not highly organized. But it very definately exists. There's a bike shop on Telegraph that serves as a fence for stolen bikes and he's always got lots of bikes. Sadly Oakland is the crime capitol of the East Bay due in large part to the inaction of the police. They will not even take a report on stolen property. Berkeley, just to the north, is a completely different story. Go figure. Phil Brown -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
