The Sheldon Method
12-27-06, 04:43 PM
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One day working on very few hours of sleep I walked out of an office building to find a messenger buddy standing with his hands on his hips tapping his foot and giving me a glare I'll never forget. Next I looked over to my rather sizable chain, locked around the seatpost of my carbon/ultegra racer.
Sigh.
Sigh.
12-27-06, 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Rugen
My favorite is when folks in SF take the time to remove & lock their QR front wheel to their downtube, but don't do anything to secure their QR rear wheel.
or you see a guy run stop for a drop off and set his lock on his saddle rather than lock it run in make the drop and his bike is still there I am just saying one day it might not be and I hope I am wrong about this
12-27-06, 07:04 PM
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I am ashamed to admit that I once did the same to my then new Felt F-80 in front of a coffee shop. Fortunately no one noticed and I was only inside for a couple of minutes. The lock was only through the down tube. I FELT really dumb. Never again!!!
Once I saw a full CF Trek (Madone??) locked to a bike rack at a grocery store (the infamous Wicker Park Jewel on Milwaukee/Paulina) with just the cutest, itsy-bitsy, floppy, little cable lock around the top tube. I was really tempted to break it just to make a point and wait for the "owner" to come out.
Once I saw a full CF Trek (Madone??) locked to a bike rack at a grocery store (the infamous Wicker Park Jewel on Milwaukee/Paulina) with just the cutest, itsy-bitsy, floppy, little cable lock around the top tube. I was really tempted to break it just to make a point and wait for the "owner" to come out.
12-27-06, 10:07 PM
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I rock this orange metal rubber-coated chain that people always assume is made out of plastic. (I would think they also assume I'm ******** ********.)
12-28-06, 10:32 AM
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Update: Bike is there today... no one stole it.
12-28-06, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by I Like Peeing
Update: Bike is there today... no one stole it.
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12-28-06, 11:23 AM
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Not an overnighter. I was surprised it was still there, though. I get the urge to leave lots of suggestions on bikes to help them out, but it draws attention to them and in some situations that could really suck.
12-28-06, 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Cynikal
The worst lockup I've seen was when some asshat next to me locked my bike with his. I was stuck there for a couple of hours.
But it really pissed me off, made me late to class. Closest I've ever been to vandalizing someone's whip right then...
12-28-06, 11:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Nouia
****!! Some ******-nozzle did that to me this fall at school. Fortunately it only went through the brake cables, not the frame, so I managed to free myself by taking off my brake temporarily.
But it really pissed me off, made me late to class. Closest I've ever been to vandalizing someone's whip right then...
But it really pissed me off, made me late to class. Closest I've ever been to vandalizing someone's whip right then...
