Originally Posted by Sheldon Brown

I have never heard of a cable being cut for the purpose of stealing a front wheel. This is the application I recommend cables for.

Exactly my point, but the variance between you and I is simply the what size of U lock to use, I prefer the larger one locking as previously mentioned then using a cable to lock the entire bike again...HOWEVER, I only use a CABLE!!!! It is the thickest cable you can get with ends to slip a lock on which I use the Abus lock; but I never have to lock the bike in bad places, and at work it's in the office with me.



Those are used in shipping new bikes, but it seems to me to be a silly additional complication to use one for locking your bike.

Again I don't lock my bike this way, but I have seen other who did and some used fork protectors...some didn't.



That's true for you or for me, but many folks are not so skillful mechanically.
You don't have to deal with the brakes to fix a flat, since a flat tire fits through the brakes with no problem.
It's particularly an issue since most newer bikes no longer have quick release brakes.
Maybe people are smarter/more skillful where you live, but around Boston and Cambridge, I see a very large number of bikes on the road with these problems.

Geez that's weird. I have seen childrens bikes not having their wheels on tight enough and fall off, but those parents didn't ride bikes so really were clueless



Since when is bicycling a "hobby?" It's a transportation mode to me, and to tens of thousands of others.

I think for those who use their bikes for a hobby you may run into a few people who might have problems putting a front wheel on. Every once in awhile I'll run into a someone who can't fix a flat and I will stop to help and teach them how to do it so next time they might be able to do it. But I'm a strange type of guy who feels that if your out riding a bike you should at the very least know how to fix a flat on the road and if your incapable of doing that then you need a new hobby (you can't use a bike for transportation if you can't fix a flat). But I'm just like you, I ride mine for transportation, but most people don't, in fact when I ride to work I'm lucky if I see one other person riding to work! And I live in a town with about 220,000 people! This was also true in when I lived in various places in California-a supposely green conscious area.



Thanks! I wish I was, but my condition continues to deteriorate... :-(

Sorry to hear that, your a great person and highly knowledgeable in the world of cycling (and probably other areas I'm unaware of), and I for one have learned from you and your website as I'm sure countless others have too.