Originally Posted by
indyfabz
How long do I have to wait for someone to steal my bike while it's locked up outside? I have been locking bikes outside for more than 30 years and I it still hasn't happened. I feel left out, especially since I now often lock my LHT with $420 worth of racks on it outside my office building in the 5th largest city in the U.S. In fact, the only place I have ever had a bike stolen is from inside my house, while I was home, awake.
Meh, like anything it is a crapshoot. I park in not particularly nice areas of Detroit regularly, never had a car broken into there, yet at the same time it has been broken into twice in far safer cities.
I generally agree with you, though, I don't think that most of us ever have anywhere near the issues we worry about with locks. Unless you have something super nice (and while a LHT is, it doesn't exactly scream it the way carbon wheels or titanium frame does), I'm a firm believer that you would rarely need anything more substantial than what would stop a snatch and ride.