Timeline for How should I lock my bike in a public front wheel bike stand
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| Jul 5, 2020 at 12:17 | comment | added | Willeke♦ | @Hjan, that depends on the place. If I park a bike in my country and take off the saddle, or any other obvious part, other parts will be gone by the time I return, certainly when left in the evening in a popular spot. It is seen as a bike left a long time and the owner not caring. | |
| Jul 5, 2020 at 5:41 | comment | added | Hjan | @cmaster-reinstatemonica if i have to park my nice mountainbike at some risky place i always remove the saddle. Which avoids that some else takes the saddle, but i think it also avoids that the bike is taken. But its just my small sample statistics. | |
| Jul 4, 2020 at 20:42 | comment | added | cmaster - reinstate monica | @Hjan ... or be otherwise uninteresting to thieves. Like being heavily customized. Or registered. Or both. Anything that makes the bike easily recognizable and/or totally out-of-fashion should reduce the retail value for the thief drastically. | |
| Jul 4, 2020 at 16:39 | comment | added | Hjan | +1 for recommending storing it in a place with lots of bikes. I like to add, make sure your bike has a lower price to lock quality ratio than average. | |
| Jul 4, 2020 at 7:29 | comment | added | juhist | @jpa sheldonbrown.com/images/locktechnique1.jpg -- more secure when done properly than just locking the rear wheel to the frame. | |
| Jul 4, 2020 at 7:27 | comment | added | jpa | Some street sign poles can just be lifted out of the hole, so in those cases this is not particularly secure. | |
| Jul 3, 2020 at 22:04 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | In some areas locking your bike to a street sign is a violation of ordinances. | |
| Jul 3, 2020 at 19:43 | history | answered | juhist | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
