Locking your Bike in Piermont, Nyack, Morristown etc?

[Bacciagalupe]

I spun up to Piermont this weekend, with a cable lock attached to my bike. (Which, I might add, probably costs 1/4 of whatever bike you, dear reader, happen to own. ;) ) I think I was the only person on 9W with a lock on their bike.

So if you're going out of NYC for 2-4 hours -- e.g. Piermont, Nyack, Morristown, Chatham etc. -- especially on a solo ride, do you bring a lock?

And if so, then where are you hiding it? (Maybe I don't wanna know....)

[Air]

I went up once, I stopped outside a deli on the way up and had it outside but kept an eye on it.

[Stacy]

When I was in Piermont I locked my bike outside the bike shop on Ash Street and did some shopping. Granted my little Sirrus was probably the cheapest bikw in rack but, if anything happened to it, not only would I be out a bike but I would have had to take public transportation back to Manhattan :eek:

When I stopped at what was probably the same deli Air mentioned I also left the bike propped up outside - watching all the while.

By comparison, when I've done centuries in Suffolk county I no longer bother to bring a lock. There's nothing to lock the bike to and there are always other cyclists willing to keep a watchful eye.

[.:Jimbo:.]

I've never really worried about my bike up there unlocked, yet in the city, I have two u-locks on it and cable locks weaved through the wheels, pedals and my seat. Seems weird that I'm quite carefree up there, but my bike is a fraction of many of the other bikes, and I generally don't stray to far from my ride anyways. Thus I feel comfortable enough there to leave my locks home when riding up 9w or river road.

[slvoid]

I usually just bring a tiny (i mean tiny, like deck of cards tiny) cable lock for luggage. Its just to prevent someone from walking away with it. Otherwise your bikes are pretty safe in piermont and nyack.

Though the first time I went up there with my carbon wheels some guy with a van was oggling and feeling em up. I think he really wanted jimbo's wheels but didn't want to touch his debris, I mean bike. :p

[.:Jimbo:.]

I usually just bring a tiny (i mean tiny, like deck of cards tiny) cable lock for luggage. Its just to prevent someone from walking away with it. Otherwise your bikes are pretty safe in piermont and nyack.

Though the first time I went up there with my carbon wheels some guy with a van was oggling and feeling em up. I think he really wanted jimbo's wheels but didn't want to touch his debris, I mean bike. :p

I said it then, and I'll say it again, I know you're just jealous that he truly liked my bike withs it's sub par ksyriums, despite my whole bike costing less than your thousand dollar wheel set alone. :p He was trying to deceive us, asking a ton of questions about your bike to divert our attention to it, and then he takes mine and runs. :D

Don't worry, you're in for a surprise when you you see my new...I mean newer bike!

[slvoid]

You do realize that if my bike falls over onto a curb and gets scratched, I can keep riding it, your new one will catastrophically shatter.

[.:Jimbo:.]

Wait, if mine breaks, I'll just jack yours grand theft auto vice city style!

Anyways, I suppose one shouldn't be so careless with their expensive toys, hence I will be so careful with my bike, I won't even ride it. :p I'll just take pictures of it, walk it to all the cycling events, put it on a car rack, talk about, and pimp it out to the point where "everyone" drools over it.

Then 160 years down the road when only steel and titanium bikes are left, my carbon Scott will finally come out of hiding and sell on e bay for $1,664,382,294,483,493,707. That should be enough money to bring me back to life, and be, oh, so wealthy, or if i can't be brough back from the dead, I'll simply be the richest dead guy! :D:p,


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