quick bike security question
brad1234uk
Posts: 22
would you ever risk leaving a £500 plus bike locked up in the city centre using an insurance approved bicycle lock. I would love to cycle more often but find that the facilitys for securing my bike scare me to the point of not bothering.
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It depends.
I've left a £600 bike locked up but...........
1) Not all day, just an hour or so.
2) Lock through both wheels and frame.
3) all lights, pack and comp removed.
4) Locking frames are in the middle of a ped zone with loads of people about.
5) Also under police CCTV area.
6) Was a road bike so not so chav desirable.
no problems so far.
*touches wood*0 -
Yes, I do it all the time, including in london, which is about as bad as it gets for bike crime . One or two (depending on city) good locks (and "insurance approved" doesn't cut it, there are only a handful of locks that are worth using), used properly, to a decent anchor, in the right place, no problems.
At the end of the day, if you've got insurance, it's only a bike. That's not to say don't take care, but I'd rather have the freedom to ride than worry about the consequences or not riding.0 -
Depends- on time, place, and how attractive I reckon my bike is to tea-leafs rather than how much it's worth as such. I don't reckon my 4/5 year old, SS-converted, mudguarded (and mud-covered!) hybrid is that attractive given the quality of my lock so I wouldn't be too concerned.
I'd be more worried about casual vandalism on, say, a Saturday night in the town centre.0 -
My bike is so handsome I'd be more worried about people trying to mate with it.
More seriously, for roadies like me, the thought of lugging locks about is wrong.
I''d buy a cheapo 2nd hand runabout if I wanted to ride into the city - scratched and old - and would not care less if it got nicked. Bit like gambling: never bet more than you are ok to lose.
My real bike never gets left outside.0 -
I do, but i have one of these:
and tend only to leave in relatively secure environments. I wouldn't lock up my good bikes though. They're just too nickable.0 -
Is that a church window?0
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No because a small handheld angle grinder can cut threw even the strongest of locks.0
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So can a LASER (seen it on a Bond Film).
Or Uri Geller. He could be shopping anywhere this Xmas, beware!0 -
nonsense, unless you've brought a couple of discs and a spare battery.
Not to mention the noise as you cut the really hard locks.
What you don't get from that pic is the size of the thing, it weighs about the same as my pompino (with pro3 race tyres on, not the cx ones)0
