Originally Posted by
chefisaac
Can you tell me YOUR procedure after you lock up your bike? I was going to stash all my lights and stuff in my panniers but then it would have been a pain in the @ss to dig them out on the bottom. My panniers, the ortliebs, only have small pockets inside. I am wondering how to stream line this a little.
I see no point in using a high end computer for utility cycling, so I use a $10 generic one and just leave it on. Various lights, I sometimes took off and still would if I rode with an expensive one, but again for daytime driving one or two LED flashlights is sufficient for visibility. Heresy, I know, but objectively we can go overboard. So I just leave my light on the bike. (that's when I'm riding old-fashioned, not the faired profile bike).
Naturally, I'm judging the risk to be fairly low at my usual supermarkets. $25 light times, say, 1% risk is a quarter I'm "spending" every time I leave it. That's an acceptable amount to me to not mess with it. Any higher cost or higher risk and that would change. I'd say the battery itself has a lower risk of theft so personally I wouldn't take that in either unless it was really easy to disconnect and carry.