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loty

Whoa - nice bike. Did it ever jackknife on you let's say when you doing 30mph downhill and hit a pot hole? Just kidding. Great idea though. Does it come equiped with Kryptonite Fahgettaboudit?

68venable

nice.

coldfeet

Interesting, I wonder, could you use those S and S ( ? ) couplers, you know, the ones that let you pack a bike in a smaller box, with a way of locking them? Uncouple the bike, assemble it around something, then lock couplers?

thegooddoctor

It's a novel approach. I can't see how it locks to the fixed object other than using a conventional lock. Am I missing something or does Rube Goldberg live on?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg

StephenH

It looks like you still need a lock to lock it. And if it is in fact a good bike, and if in fact, that modification makes it worth more, then the theft problem is worse instead of better.

Here's my idea of an anti-theft bikes:

It's a reasonably sturdy and rideable bike, but no single component on it is really worth walking away with. It's too old to be valueable, but not old enough to be valuable, either. The picture doesn't do full justice to the ugliness of the paint job, either. Put a good U-lock on it and you're reasonable safe. (I will have to admit, I had a worn-out mountain bike that cost $100 brand new that was stolen, so nothing is really sure!)

Somebody mentioned the couplers. They are high-dollar items, so they would work against you.

A simpler modification would be to make it where the main triangle comes apart in two places, so you just put the triangle around a lamppost and lock it back into place. With proper lock positioning, you wouldn't be able to steal it unless you sawed through the frame itself.

coldfeet

I'm missing something here, don't the couplers I mentioned usually get fitted in the main triangle? And how does the increase in expense of adding locking couplers make it more attractive, when, to get the bike, you have to break the couplers?

loty

Are you kidding me? These babies are stolen every second in NYC. If you want an anti-theft bike you should be looking for something like this:

And even then you'd better lock it up