Originally Posted by
badger1
Bicycles are not cars. They are not laptops.
If there were a demand for bicycles with built-in theft-proofing, whether that be mechanical or electronic or some combination of the two, someone ( a mfg.) would be making them. There is not, so they are not. Clearly, most buyers -- self included -- are not prepared to incur the added expense to purchase a bicycle with effective mechanical/electronic 'theft proofing' built in.
You want to 'theft-proof' your bike? Buy an appropriate lock, lug it around with you, and lock up your bike as
conditions necessitate. Most of us have long since figured this one out.
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Actually in quite a few places in Europe, bikes come ready equipped with lights, racks, locks and fenders, as people regularly commute and use bikes just like Americans use cars. In fact such bikes were quite the norm in Finland, and finding a "stripped bike" like that typically seen in America was a "special order."
So it's not as if such things don't have a market... it is more like America just isn't the market for them. (or at least so we've been told...
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