Lost your key? Use a BICİ

[way124]

I know bike locks are can sometimes be ridiculously easy to break, but not this ricidulously easy to break.

http://bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=66128

So, if you bike around a lot, make sure you shouldn't feel safe with the famed Kryptonite. Get another kind of lock... I have U-lock and combo. Maybe I should get a welder too? Probably an alarm... or even motion sensor will be enough. Or a hidden camera. I always have an axe ready in case I need to chop someone's hands off.

[Wazza]

And now they're advertising the fact of the problem. And all the people who don't realise it, only find out once their bikes have been stolen. &(

[XY_Futura]

funny i leave my bike un chained up right infront of the local shoppin center for like 2 hrs. its just leanin there no chaines or anything and yet its never been stollen.. and its not like its a Crap bike, its a $300 bike that was given to me.

Rob

[Y2kGoofball]

yeah but if you watch the simpsons... (this was taken off a simpsons transcript site, no I didnt remember it word by word!)

Bart: Dad, you really want to get rid of this trampoline?
Homer: Uh huh.
Bart: Observe ... a bike lock!
[He locks the trampoline to a post]
"Now just turn around, and count to three: one, two, three --"
[They turn around to see Snake with a pair of bolt cutters]
Bart: "Uh, better make it five."
Snake: "All right! I got me a bed."

[FIATLOVE]

I used to have a "blue" version of Cryptonite locks, I got it in 1989, and back then it was the most reliable lock on marked (the blue version was standing OK against ice sprays and it had 3/4 whole turn on the key)

Well, 5 years ago that lock was defined as "not worth a shit"
So I started using it to locking 2 bikes together (in addition to other locks, making it worse to move bikes away from parking)

Here in Europe there is 1 bike lock brand who differs alot from all others, it's made in UK and it's called SQUIRE (can't find a URL for it, sorry)
They are expensive but they are dam tuff.


I recommend Squire, it's heck expensive but if your bike is costy it will keep thiefs away (if the bike is costy enough they will disamble all the goodparts anyway, like my bike, I have barends of OCLV carbon (TREK brand), they costs 180 USD or so, my seat is a Selle Italie Flite, that costs ca 100 USD, my seatpost is a MCO Titanium, it cost ca. 180 USD..) Each of my tires costs ca 50 USD, rims are 400 USD for rear and 250 USD for front
So when I'm at the post office I watch more the bike outside than i following the countingmeter in postcuee ^_^
And I need a hecking backsack to carry the locks into :rolleyes:
So mostly I use foots or car when doing errands, in old days i dragged the bike into all kinda stores (the only building my arguments about "my tyres are cleaner than your floor" :D did not work was back in 1990, in the US embassy (Arnold Swarznegger as Terminator was much nicer than that guard, LOL)

When I'm on vacation I lock the bike onto a stud in my building, inside my appartment.
They can take my TV and my clothes, even my PC (cus I have backups), but if they take my bike, I will not only cry, I will be desperate and depressive.


:Peace: :wave:


Mads