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Old 08-31-07 | 11:36 PM
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CdCf
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From: Gothenburg, Sweden

Bikes: 1 road bike (simple, light), 1 TT bike (could be more aero, could be lighter), 1 all-weather commuter and winter bike, 1 Monark 828E ergometer indoor bike

freako, what is your problem?

At least for Sweden, almost all stolen bikes were either not locked at all, locked with a cheap cable lock, locked only to themselves (good lock or bad doesn't matter much in that situation) or locked with a good lock to something that was easy to cut (thin wire fence, for example). The number of thefts here of bikes locked to a secure bike stand with a hardened steel D-lock is vanishingly small. Most of those cases were bikes locked in secluded places during the night, and the typical method of breaking the locks is by either cutting through it with power tools or using a hydraulic jack.

The number of bike thefts where locks have been picked is so low that it's not in the statistics.

Maybe it's different where you live.
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