Originally Posted by mechBgon
If you refer to the first post in the thread, you can see that the risk of ruining a whole bike did
not stop thieves from attempting to steal the bike. They were evidently willing to trash it pretty badly in hopes of carrying off what was left. People over in Commuting are sometimes discussing filling in their hex-key fittings with epoxy to deter the theft of their derailleurs and whatnot, so a whole bike with a dead rear wheel (but everything else intact) might have more value to the thieves than you think.
I don't think they'll like the
mechBgon method either
I can't speak for any bike thieves, but I'd expect dual-point locking of the frame and both wheels to solidly-anchored objects to have a strong deterrence factor on sight. And it appears to me that it would also inhibit lift-&-twist attacks, since the bike (or
*cough* the rear wheel) can no longer be pivoted on one lock. Given that I take two locks along anyway, as Alan himself advocates quite frequently, that's how I'm going to use them. If your method is secure, then I think mine is moreso.
The first post sounds like the victim of a drunken or mischievious college student. Bike thieves by and large steal to resell or trade, destroying the entire bike? where was the gain, and what sort of regular bike thief thinks they can lever a Krypto mini with just the frame & have something left to steal? On campus you say? In Portland? I doubt it was a bike thief.
Many riders don't want to carry 2-3 locks everywhere they go, and most riders in the US don't need to, do they? Except in the large cities a bike is probably secure all day using the Sheldon method, in some places overnight. In the big cities it works fine for short hops, just not a long stay and no system at all works overnight as we all know.
Strange no one will acknowledge the difference in Sheldons method even if they don't agree it's worthwhile, the need to tout their own method as superior is too much to bear.