Originally Posted by
tallard
Of course, a place I worked last year in Florida had the air conditioner units stolen off the roof!!!!
But the point is, mostly, if you leave little expensive items on your cycle in the city overnight, there's a very good chance they'll be gone tomorrow. Extremists even take off their seats and front wheels! The only way to reasonably MANDATE presence of security devices is to have them built in. BUT, cycling is the transportation for those too poor to own motorised vehicles. So to make more expensive cycles in order that they have more similar safety features to cars IS counterproductive.
Cycling is safe, cycling is cheap, cycling is health promoting. Our societies should instead be working on REMOVING privileges from motorists and INCREASING privileges to cyclists. We are unfortunately headed the opposite direction.
IMO, the real issue is the security - or lack thereof - of bike parking facilities. battery lights and other small removable components like saddles can easily be taken with the owner when locking a bike, or, like front wheels, can be removed and locked with the bike. Or you can replace quick release devices with regular or security bolts such as those made by Pitlock.
I use dynamo lights on most of my bike, they are securely bolted to the bike frame and require a combination of several wrenches to remove, and I've never had a problem with theft.