Originally Posted by mulveyr

I'm not sure that someone with three bikes listed in their profile can reasonably assert that it's not financially feasible. ;-)

As for the locking issue - it's not an aversion. It's a matter of evaluating reasonable probabilities, and choosing whether or not you choose to live in a place or with a mindset that treats everyone else as a potential criminal. When I stop at my usual haunts, it never even occurs to me to consider whether or not it's "safe", as that evaluation has already been made long, long ago. So prop the bike up somewhere, and go in and do what I'm there for. When I'm touring, if I stop to get a snack at a bodega that's surrounded by burned out cars, drunks puking on the sidewalk in front of the store, or people dealing drugs a few feet away on the corner, then it's time to re-evaluate the necessity for a lock in that place.

In reality, ANY lock, including 10-plus-pound-New-York-City-class monsters, can be defeated in under a minute with portable tools. At best a lock provides a very short delay before the bike gets stolen.