Cycleway town
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Milton Keynes, England
Posts: 1,402
Bikes: 2.6kw GT LTS e-tandem, 250w Voodoo, 250w solar recumbent trike, 3-speed shopper, Merlin ol/skl mtb, 80cc Ellswick
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I think personalisation is good, regardless of the style. Nobody was ever gonna steal my GT LTS-3 despite it being a very attractive bike and very clean, simply because it was blatantly the only one on the planet that looked the way it did. And theives just wanna pass a bike straight on.
Whether they are or not, a desirable bike to a thief looks common and standard. They want an easy 50 in their pocket. Steel, carbon, it'll probably go for the same price.
It reminds me of the un-stealable Mercedes - a rather wealthy arabic guy got Mercedes to build him an estate version of their new S-class Coupe in the early 1990s. The only 3-dr S-class on the planet. Somewhat of a hot potato on the black market.