bike thieves now cutting racks

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12-29-12 | 08:08 PM

#101

tcs

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Originally Posted by lostforawhile

if you made something out of aluminum here...

My bad - while a blog claimed the NYC racks were cast aluminum (and perhaps the beautiful, polished contest-winning prototype was), the designer says the installed racks are (galvanized? and rather rough looking) cast iron.

Last edited by tcs; 12-30-12 at 09:51 AM.

12-30-12 | 12:45 PM

#102

whitenhiemer

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I just make sure to cable lock my frame and tires together, I've got a 5 foot cable. If they can get it off the post, they still have to carry it after that.

12-30-12 | 01:09 PM

#103

lostforawhile

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through whatever it's attached to in 20 seconds with a sawzall, throw it in the back of a van, and gone in under a minute.

12-30-12 | 01:51 PM

#104

lostforawhile

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we just had some idiot try to turn in an entire bike rack,complete with locked bikes attached, at the local scrap yard

01-02-13 | 03:29 AM

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smasha

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Quote:

Originally Posted by lostforawhile

we just had some idiot try to turn in an entire bike rack,complete with locked bikes attached, at the local scrap yard

did s/he get arrested over it? if not, s/he's not the idiot in this story...

01-02-13 | 11:30 AM

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Zorba

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Originally Posted by lostforawhile

if you made something out of aluminum here, they would steal the rack and leave the bikes, it takes a genius to make something out of a metal thats stolen day and night to sell for scrap. Why not just hang a sign on it that says steal me. They put in these nice aluminum street light poles here and the thieves simply unbolted the heavy cast aluminum access plates and stole every one. They also had aluminum covers for the inground garbage cans, until nearly every one was stolen and they had to go with fiberglass.

Its all in Ayn Rand...