Originally Posted by sashae
As someone that has never even considered locking a bike outside in NYC up until now, how prevalent *is* theft anyway? I've had two bikes stolen in my life (both out of garages), but I keep hearing horror stories of bikes getting evaporated even when locked up with enough steel to rebuild the terminator.
I'm looking at building a steel fix just to avoid parking my nice roadie on the street (plus, it's carbon, so it's bound to get smashed if locked..) Am I insane to even consider an even slightly nice frame? Should I be looking at a smashed beater to avoid the grip of the theftman?
-s
I've had a bike and my gfriends bike parked in the street for ovedr 8 yrs. 1 stolen seat, 1 stoled rear wheel (totally my fault), 2 attempts to cut through kryp[toflex cables, but no luck on their part. if you have an ugly bike, chain the seat and tape it, square chain and american lock (better than the kryptos in my opinion (or multilock even better, but 80 for the lock itself), around rear wheel and frame, cable around front wheel, rebuild your headset, super glue the hex bolt on stem. no problem. on the other side of the coin, just 2 months ago a crazy neighbor destroyed both bikes b/c he didn't like the m parked in fron tof his building. he then cut em loose with a grinder, which i saw. this 1 super bad event in 8 yrs aint so bad, but im still pissed, on the positive side, someone left a worksman foldingg bike out with the garbage several weeks later. several weeks after that I fouind ajnother big wald basket. done. karma. i mean he destroyed EVERY part of theose other bikes. still looking to replace my g-friends too.
i would go for it, also rattlecan the whole thing, even tires. this makes it lot less liikely to get stolen and perhaops yuo will see the part riding by one day like my friend did. most bike theives, unless they are nice bikes, seem to be neighborhood kids needing a part