How to keep your bike from being stolen

Step 8 Don't Do This: Ignoring the first step

Remember the first thing you did, deciding whether or not your bike was really that valuable. It's important, and these people failed. They made the cardinal mistake of being the best bike locked up at a certain location, making them the focus of theft attempts.

Comments

[dinglballs]

hahahaha im beginning to think you were once a bike thief from the way you are talking about all this...

[realanthillkit]

It appears that they also made the mistake from your previous step: locking only the front wheel. At a quick first glance it may appear as if it's locked through the frame, but actually the owner lazily lopped it OVER the top of the frame. A little noodling around the handlebars, pop out the wheel, and abra cadabra! LeMond disappears!
I made this mistake once, lock AROUND not THROUGH the triangle--won't do it again...

[merpius]

All of these very expensive, poorly locked bikes are various shades of pink. Is this an indicator that women are more likely to have expensive bikes? More likely to lock their expensive bikes poorly? Or are pink expensive bikes just more noticeable than other colors?

[Ciuschi]

About the carbon-bike with 2 U-locks: do you mean this kind of bikes are unsuitable for common use, which involves parking in public places? Just to be locked indoor when not riding? no alternative issues to a properly trained attack-cat?

[thehumble1]

good call. I'd errantly remembered it as a SS decal. thanks for the great walkthrough for the noobs.

[thehumble1]

that's sick. someone needs a spanking. and what's the deal with the single speed decal on a triple chainring bike?

[Fuzz2050]

That's actually a crank brothers decal, but then again, whats a crank brothers decal doing on a bike with toe clips, and why is that the crank bothers logo anyway?