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Old 10-03-11 | 03:31 PM
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I'll have to measure and see if there's a Pitlock that will work with the extra long skewer on my Old Man Mountain front rack.

My current locking strategy is to lock the front wheel and frame to a stationary object with a U-lock. The rear wheel is secured with a ring lock, and sometimes I add a cable to go around an anchor, through the frame, and hook into the ring lock. Without the cable, the ring lock is really just an annoyance to a thief, but the rear wheel in such a pain to remove that even the ring lock is probably overkill. Currently the clearance is so tight at the rear axle that I have to unbolt either my rack or my fender stay in order to get the wrench around the axle nut. That alone deters me from removing the wheel unless absolutely necessary, so I figure it would also be a deterrent for a potential thief. But, even so, the pain of losing my rear, IGH wheel would be considerably more than losing my front wheel, so I still would like to use the U-lock at the rear wheel if I could secure the front wheel another way.

I used to do the remove-the-front-wheel thing, but I do not want to go back to that. Especially now that I have a generator hub that would have to be disconnected every time.
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