Stolen Bike

Daevon said:

Hi everyone Today someone stole my bike ... again. This is not the first time it happens to me
because I do live in a city were bike theft are much common. What I'm seeking here is some advice
on a good anti-theft device. I've tried every type of chain (look at the last one on this page!)
automotomania.comabus.aspOpen ↗ but they've been easily cut.. Someone got any
Idea? I've heard of harder chains, of chains with an alarm that sounds if the chain gets cut and
so on... Please, ANY advice is welcome! Many thanks! Lorenzo

Yeh, ride a bike no one would want to steal. I've got an old rusty Schwinn with a banana seat I can
let you have cheap. It even has front and rear reflectors and a plastic flourescent flag on a long
fiberglass pole attached to the rear wheel. Plus, you won't have to worry about the components
getting stolen either. It has one gear and you peddle backwards to engage the brakes.

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Hi everyone Today someone stole my bike ... again. This is not the first time it happens to me
because I do live in a city

were

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bike theft are much common. What I'm seeking here is some advice on a good anti-theft device. I've
tried every type of chain (look at the last one on this page!)
automotomania.comabus.aspOpen ↗ but they've been easily cut.. Someone got any
Idea? I've heard of harder chains, of chains with an alarm that sounds if the chain gets cut and
so on... Please, ANY advice is welcome! Many thanks! Lorenzo

Have a look at this and also other products on the site.

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What city? I live in a small city nick- named little New York City. A few riders I know have had
their bikes stolen multi times due to cheap cheap locking devices. Masterlock has a nice set of
cuffs for around $ 60.00 USA. It also helps not to be gone from your bike for to long while its
locked. I ride my bike to work and I'm able to bring it in. I use to lock it up outside till the
horn got stolen. Which was recovered on the ride home. The stupid

show- ed them the CF ingraved on the bottom of the can.

I MTB 2004

"Daevon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hi everyone Today someone stole my bike ... again. This is not the first time it happens to me
because I do live in a city

were

Quoted message said:

bike theft are much common. What I'm seeking here is some advice on a good anti-theft device. I've
tried every type of chain (look at the last one on this page!)
automotomania.comabus.aspOpen ↗ but they've been easily cut.. Someone got any
Idea? I've heard of harder chains, of chains with an alarm that sounds if the chain gets cut and
so on... Please, ANY advice is welcome! Many thanks! Lorenzo

I would take my bike with me into any building or office I had to go into. When I do road rides in
S. Florida, and we stop at a restaurant, if they want our business, they don't mind our putting the
bikes inside where we can watch them. If they don't like our bikes inside, we look for a better
place. Rarely have I had problems with this though--most places won't mind. If your bike is worth
over 2 grand, any thief who wants it can steal it--regardless of the anti-theft devices you can put
on it. They can all be defeated by a determined thief. I'd love to have one try and take mine while
its parked in my view, inside a restaurant while we are eating--there would be one less bike thief
very quickly :-)

Regards, Dan V

Dan V

I agree, I rarely used any kind of locking device, rather I preferred to have my bike in a safe
place, watched or secure.

Where is the bike being left to be stolen from?

JeffP.....

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Quoted message said:

Hi everyone Today someone stole my bike ... again. This is not the first time it happens to me
because I do live in a city

were

Quoted message said:

bike theft are much common. What I'm seeking here is some advice on a good anti-theft device.
I've tried every type of chain (look at the last one on this page!)
automotomania.comabus.aspOpen ↗ but they've been easily cut.. Someone got any
Idea? I've heard of harder chains, of chains with an alarm that sounds if the chain gets cut and
so on... Please, ANY advice is welcome! Many thanks! Lorenzo

I would take my bike with me into any building or office I had to go into. When I do road rides in
S. Florida, and we stop at a restaurant, if they want our business, they don't mind our putting
the bikes inside where we can watch them. If they don't like our bikes inside, we look for a
better place. Rarely have I had problems with this though--most places won't mind. If your bike is
worth over 2 grand, any thief who wants it can steal it--regardless of the anti-theft devices you
can put on it. They can all be defeated by a determined thief. I'd love to have one try and take
mine while its parked in my view, inside a restaurant while we are eating--there would be one less
bike thief very quickly :-)

Regards, Dan V

Dan V

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Quoted message said:

Hi everyone Today someone stole my bike ... again. This is not the first time it happens to me
because I do live in a city were bike theft are much common. What I'm seeking here is some advice
on a good anti-theft device. I've tried every type of chain (look at the last one on this page!)
automotomania.comabus.aspOpen ↗ but they've been easily cut.. Someone got any
Idea? I've heard of harder chains, of chains with an alarm that sounds if the chain gets cut and
so on... Please, ANY advice is welcome! Many thanks! Lorenzo

I just started selling these locks, they seem to be of Kryptonite quality for a fraction of the
price, so you can buy two different types and use them both. I took the biggest pair of bolt cutters
in the shop to the Mega Link 3600 and I barely scratched it. So at least it stands up to that. They
probably won't handle a torch or power saw however. bikeguardlocks.combikeguardlocks.comOpen ↗
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Quoted message said:

Hi everyone Today someone stole my bike ... again. This is not the first time it happens to me
because I do live in a city

were

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bike theft are much common. What I'm seeking here is some advice on a good anti-theft device.
I've tried every type of chain (look at the last one on this page!)
automotomania.comabus.aspOpen ↗ but they've been easily cut.. Someone got any
Idea? I've heard of harder chains, of chains with an

alarm

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that sounds if the chain gets cut and so on... Please, ANY advice is welcome! Many thanks!
Lorenzo

I just started selling these locks, they seem to be of Kryptonite quality for a fraction of the
price, so you can buy two different types and use them both. I took the biggest pair of bolt
cutters in the shop to the Mega Link 3600 and I barely scratched it. So at least it stands up to
that. They probably won't handle a torch or power saw however. bikeguardlocks.combikeguardlocks.comOpen ↗
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Chris Phillipo - Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

I saw a news special once where they showed big locks like this, being sprayed with freon or some
other ultra cold liquid form of a gas, bringing the lock to a temperature somewhere around or below
100 degrees below zero--maybe way lower, I don't recall....This took a few seconds of spraying, then
the theif would just smack the lock with a bar or something, and the lock would shatter like glass.
For every type of lock or special cable the program showed, the thiefs had an near instantaneous
solution to breaking it....

Dan V

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I saw a news special once where they showed big locks like this, being sprayed with freon or some
other ultra cold liquid form of a gas, bringing the lock to a temperature somewhere around or
below 100 degrees below zero--maybe way lower, I don't recall....This took a few seconds of
spraying, then the theif would just smack the lock with a bar or something, and the lock would
shatter like glass. For every type of lock or special cable the program showed, the thiefs had an
near instantaneous solution to breaking it....

Dan V

I think I saw that one or a similar one, cable locks took like 5 seconds, good u-locks like 10-30
seconds, chains about the same. The only thing that increased the time it took to steal the bike to
a minute or more was multiple locks of different types and that's only if it wasn't locked to
somethign that itself could be cut even faster.
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Chris Phillipo said:

I think I saw that one or a similar one, cable locks took like 5 seconds, good u-locks like 10-30
seconds, chains about the same. The only thing that increased the time it took to steal the bike
to a minute or more was multiple locks of different types and that's only if it wasn't locked to
somethign that itself could be cut even faster.

I used to chain my bike to one of the main power conduits leading to the engineering quad. Never in
3 years did anyone try to steal my bike.

As in real estate, location is everything.

--Kamus

Daevon said:

Hi everyone Today someone stole my bike ... again. This is not the first time it happens to me
because I do live in a city were bike theft are much common. What I'm seeking here is some advice
on a good anti-theft device. I've tried every type of chain (look at the last one on this page!)
automotomania.comabus.aspOpen ↗ but they've been easily cut.. Someone got any
Idea? I've heard of harder chains, of chains with an alarm that sounds if the chain gets cut and
so on... Please, ANY advice is welcome! Many thanks! Lorenzo

Sheldon Brown has some interesting thoughts upon this. sheldonbrown.comlockOpen ↗
strategy.html

In short he says to carry both a U-lock and a cable lock. Both can be cut open by a thief but they
require different tools. Chances are that the thief to be is specializing on one or the other. And
of course to have a bike that nobody wants to steal. Only problem with that is I wouldn't want to
ride it either.

I only ever lock up my commuter bike. My nice roadbike and even nicer MTB I never ever leave
out of sight.

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Perre

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Ride-A-Lot said:

Daevon said:

Hi everyone Today someone stole my bike ... again. This is not the first time it happens to me
because I do live in a city were bike theft are much common. What I'm seeking here is some advice
on a good anti-theft device. I've tried every type of chain (look at the last one on this page!)
automotomania.comabus.aspOpen ↗ but they've been easily cut.. Someone got any
Idea? I've heard of harder chains, of chains with an alarm that sounds if the chain gets cut and
so on... Please, ANY advice is welcome! Many thanks! Lorenzo

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and a plastic flourescent flag on a long fiberglass pole attached to the rear wheel.

Whoo Hoo. Go the chopperguard! That brings back memories ;-)
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Daevon said:

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The yellow lock in the upper right corner

The other thing is a useful deterrent of crime as well ;-)

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