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04-02-08, 05:55 PM
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I drink your MILKSHAKE
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04-02-08, 06:29 PM
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I've been using a cable lock with no problems. However, after reading this thread and now that I'll be parking the bike in various locations during the warmer months, I bought a Kryptonite Mini to help make me feel more secure.
04-02-08, 06:41 PM
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I have severe doubts about the alleged benefits of locking a bike in a public space, in the hope that some by-stander will care enough to stop a bike thief. I suspect it's more likely that they'll choose not to get involved. I prefer to hide mine as out of sight as possible. I only lock mine in public if I'm only going to be away from it for a few minutes, and even then I worry.
04-02-08, 06:43 PM
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I have severe doubts about the alleged benefits of locking a bike in a public space, in the hope that some by-stander will care enough to stop a bike thief. I suspect it's more likely that they'll choose not to get involved. I prefer to hide mine as out of sight as possible. I only lock mine in public if I'm only going to be away from it for a few minutes, and even then I worry.
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04-02-08, 07:22 PM
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Fortunately, my workplace has a nice bike cage in a private car park with card access for employees only. I don't even lock my bike to the rack during work.
04-03-08, 01:13 PM
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04-03-08, 02:00 PM
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i do have the serial in my paperwork, but do you think it would make a difference to give it to them. I mean I know it wouldn't be any type of priority for them and the serial number is probably filed off right. I'm just bummed about the whole situation. I feel like the bike is just gone.
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
