Fine, I can see people can't take a joke. We all get the point that if someone wants to steal your bike they will...And not all thieves are crackheads. Great. But why does everything on this forum turn into a debate? Look, if we can't say anything because there's always something someone can do to steal a bike, then this is a postmodern argument and no one wins with postmodernism--catch 22. We all agree that there are still things someone can do to steal your bike, chances are some thieves read this forum, but if they do they won't be thieves for long because you can view how much we love our bikes and if they're human they have a capacity for empathy. Look we all posted what we thought would work (I posted a poor joke that was again taken seriously). Let homes and future homes that read this site make up their own decisions about it. If your solution is to buy a crappy seat and post, then that's cool (even though I won't give up the style of my brooks), but I know people that "steal" crappy seats and posts off bike that no one's used in 3 years (I live on a college campus lots of rusted chains).

The point is we love our bike, we do what we can to protect them, and hopefully they don't get stolen. But even if they get stolen there's hope...Like this one time my buddy Jared saw my stolen bike, chained it up, hacksawed the other guy's lock off, the other guy came up to him and they got in an altercation, my friend won, and I got my bike back (and I gave my buddy a bike as a reward...).

For a community that shares a hobby and a "lifestyle" we bicker a whole f'in ton.