Quick question!
05-31-15 | 02:24 PM
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Quick question!
Quick question and first post!
I am trying to find a bike lock (Specifically a U lock) for this bike: Specialized Bicycle Components
The frame isn't a perfect circle, so the one I purchased from dicks didn't work (The piece that holds the U when riding was too small and couldn't go around anything on my bike)
ANy ideas?
I am trying to find a bike lock (Specifically a U lock) for this bike: Specialized Bicycle Components
The frame isn't a perfect circle, so the one I purchased from dicks didn't work (The piece that holds the U when riding was too small and couldn't go around anything on my bike)
ANy ideas?
05-31-15 | 04:11 PM
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From: St Peters, Missouri
Bikes: Catrike 559 I own some others but they don't get ridden very much.
How secure do you need to be?
The truth is that the first lock that you use with your bike, however cheezy, is about 90% effective because if forces the thief to bring a tool with him. Going from 90% effective to 99% effective is a progressively expensive, bulky and heavy process. There is no 100% effective lock. Anything made by one man can be cut by another given the time and technology.
Unless you have to leave your bike in a theft prone area I'd get myself a cable lock and wrap it around the seatpost. If you leave your bike in the same place regularly, leave a heavy secure lock at each destination to use when you get there.
Honestly, I seldom use a lock of any kind.
The truth is that the first lock that you use with your bike, however cheezy, is about 90% effective because if forces the thief to bring a tool with him. Going from 90% effective to 99% effective is a progressively expensive, bulky and heavy process. There is no 100% effective lock. Anything made by one man can be cut by another given the time and technology.
Unless you have to leave your bike in a theft prone area I'd get myself a cable lock and wrap it around the seatpost. If you leave your bike in the same place regularly, leave a heavy secure lock at each destination to use when you get there.
Honestly, I seldom use a lock of any kind.
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05-31-15 | 07:23 PM
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How secure do you need to be?
The truth is that the first lock that you use with your bike, however cheezy, is about 90% effective because if forces the thief to bring a tool with him. Going from 90% effective to 99% effective is a progressively expensive, bulky and heavy process. There is no 100% effective lock. Anything made by one man can be cut by another given the time and technology.
Unless you have to leave your bike in a theft prone area I'd get myself a cable lock and wrap it around the seatpost. If you leave your bike in the same place regularly, leave a heavy secure lock at each destination to use when you get there.
Honestly, I seldom use a lock of any kind.
The truth is that the first lock that you use with your bike, however cheezy, is about 90% effective because if forces the thief to bring a tool with him. Going from 90% effective to 99% effective is a progressively expensive, bulky and heavy process. There is no 100% effective lock. Anything made by one man can be cut by another given the time and technology.
Unless you have to leave your bike in a theft prone area I'd get myself a cable lock and wrap it around the seatpost. If you leave your bike in the same place regularly, leave a heavy secure lock at each destination to use when you get there.
Honestly, I seldom use a lock of any kind.
06-01-15 | 06:20 AM
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From: St Peters, Missouri
Bikes: Catrike 559 I own some others but they don't get ridden very much.
Yes, and he has aero shaped tubes that won't accept a bracket designed for round tubes so I suggested a couple of alternatives. Any suggestion may or may not help. Offering nothing will never help.
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My greatest fear is all of my kids standing around my coffin and talking about "how sensible" dad was.
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