Originally Posted by
Robert Foster
Looking at this topic I pondered why cyclists are so often targeted for theft? I remember as a kid sometimes a bike was stolen from school but not all that often. If you had a simply U lock your bike was mostly safe at most stores. We all remember those long shackle key locks all stores used to sell that wouldn’t slow a bike thief for a minute today.
When I was working and commuting with a car I don’t remember ever having it broken into. I never even had a tire or wheel stolen. Someone got a hubcap once.
When I rode Motorcycles I lost a gas cap once but I never had a trunk of saddle bag broken into. But today bikes are like prime targets and if you leave something on a bike it most often gets ripped off. Also it seems as if MTBs and Flat bar bikes are prime targets but that might be because road bike riders don’t leave their bikes out of sight as often.
Still the question is why cyclists?
It's a lot easier to steal crap off a bike, which has no locking doors or trunk?