I'm sure someone will immediately counter this with security cam footage of a thief stripping a bike clean in broad daylight with his boxed vintage Campy tools, leaving only a bare frame and the wheels behind, but this very neatly fits in the "things I never even thought of worrying about" category of bicycle concerns. And I won't worry about it again tomorrow.

I leave my Paramount locked outside work on the occasions I decide to ride it in. Big office plaza away from the main streets, minimal traffic outside of those who work there. I don't walk out at the end of the day wondering if it'll still be there or not.

In short (here comes the blasphemy) I believe we vastly overrate the desirability of most of our bikes (and in this case, their components) to your typical thief. The drug-money-seeking opportunist is looking for an easy target. Grab and go. Put my Abus-Bordo-secured Paramount next to a cheap-cable-locked box-store 29er, insert Sketchy Joe the Snatch-and-Grabber, and my bike is still gonna be there when I come out. And I doubt he's gonna look at the four-hole Campy FD and say "oh hey, they only made that one year, eBay here I come!"

Some here will say I'm whistling past the graveyard (or whatever the appropriate cliche' might be). I figure lock it well and don't leave it overnight gets the job done in most places. NYC or similar? Apparently handcuffing it to your wrist is the only viable option.

...And the high-dollar vintage bike thief who bought his Porsche with the proceeds from red-hot DeRosas and Jack Taylors? Pretty sure that guy's a myth.