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03-15-13 | 04:19 AM

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KonAaron Snake

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From: Philadelphia, PA

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Originally Posted by catonec

this may be a little extreme but

"DO NOT LEAVE ANY BIKE UNATTENDED THAT YOU DONT WANT STOLEN!"

If you do have to use a bike for transportation and leave it locked up for long periods of time, buy a $100 POS on craigslist, make it functionally perfect, ride it until someone steals it, start over. Sorry.

I disagree...depending on where you live. In Philly a properly locked bike is safe and few thieves know crap from gold. I get nervous leaving things overnight, but I haven't had issues. I know I've said this before - but my Merckx was abandoned with a crappy ubolt in north Philly for 4 months and no one stole or stripped its campy c-record parts.

There's also insurance.

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03-15-13 | 07:24 PM

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catonec

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of course there are exceptions to every thing. Luck has alot to do with it too.

I did say it was alittle extreme of a position to take but... loosing a $100 investment to a scumbag is much more acceptable than losing $1500.

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