My son has 2 bikes now at university; not Rivs, but equally good targets (a Jones and and a rando bike). In addition to lockable skewers / seat bolt, we added a Knog AirTag/alarm to each of them, but more importantly: wrapped them both with duct tape, in several colors / wore it through / spray painted a little bit in various areas, etc. I don't recall the brand of duct tape, but many of them now come off residue free; we tried it, both when we put it on, and after 2 years; it came off, and the paint underneath was fine. In addition, he locks it up with a Ulock designed to blunt angle grinders. And filthy water bottles in the cages, and a beat up looking seat. And goes without saying, never leave it locked up outside overnight.
Whole frame seat post and bars are taped / the rack has a rusty basket zip tied to it. If someone wants your bike, they'lll get it; but around universities, esp the one he's at where there's a lot of bike thievery, they go for the easiest ones to steal. Ron in Western Ma On Tuesday, September 24, 2024 at 5:51:32 PM UTC-4 anthony...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi! I posted a while back asking for advice on what Riv model would fit me > and where I could try them. A month after visiting Riv HQ, I bought a used > homer, which is arriving tomorrow! > > Anyway the point of this post was to ask your opinion on this particular > situation. I commute to my university classes and intend on using the homer > for that. There's an indoor bike locker that is accessible to the public > (do not need student or faculty IDs to get in) and I was planning on > locking it up there. I will be using a chain lock for the front tire and > the frame and a u-lock for the rear wheel and frame (possibly a cable loop > for the seat as well). This room has a security camera but no active > security personnel. > > At most I would leave the bike there for 2 hours or so, would you risk > this? I know that ultimately this risk is up to me to live with, but I > wanted to hear some of your thoughts. I have attached a picture of the bike > locker! Thanks in advance! > > [image: Indoor Bike Parking - DSIT : r/ufl] > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/3d796cf8-34a5-45de-978f-1adf5062b92cn%40googlegroups.com.
