Originally Posted by
Arthur Peabody
- I saw the most oddly-accesorized bike parked at the grocery store. It had a can of 'Fix-a-flat' (auto tire size - as if they make one for bike tires) in the bottle cage, 6 feet of ¼-inch chain wrapped around the top tube, holding a coping saw (not used to secure the bike - I didn't even see a padlock); it was secured to the rack by a thin (⅛-inch?) cable with a cylindrical combination lock (the kind upon which one rotates the numbers). I was sorry I didn't have a camera.
HAHA! You reminded me of the first real bike I had (one with gears). I bought one of those cable locks for it. Locked it up while I went in a store ... forgot the combination, and got so frustrated I broke the lock in half with my bare hands. Cast pot-metal. I never replaced it with anything.