There was an article in the Downtown News that bike thefts are up 60% in downtown LA. The Central Library and restaurants are thieve favorite places to steal bikes. I've never brought my Rivendell down there. I only bring the Bridgestone.
http://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/bike-thefts-soar-nearly-in-downtown/article_6fb464ce-f5cc-11e4-b0d8-3b3feb0bd0e6.html On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 10:06:19 PM UTC-7, drew wrote: > > I have no doubts about the pitlock security and I suppose I'll eventually > go that way myself. Here in LA, Ive become a firm believer in appearing the > most locked up. Most casual thieves won't know a pitlock's resiliency until > they do some messing with it and the bike. A ulock thru the back and a > thick cable thru the front conveys a fairly straightforward message that my > bike will take 15-20 minutes of work out in the open. Maybe you could get > the front wheel off faster, but you'd still need to deflate the tire...Most > thieves won't risk all that when another barely locked bike is half a block > away. > Again, Ill get pitlocks one day soon, but I'll probably still carry a > u-lock and cable for what it conveys. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
