Jose, Welcome to beautiful Oakland! This is what I do in Rockridge. Even though Rockridge is considered a nice neighborhood, and is really not at all like the Oakland that people think of from the news, it is still a moderately urban area with lots of people moving through on foot, bike, bart, cars, and hence opportunistic crimes are not unusual.
I would ALWAYS lock the bike with a u-lock. Generally, for 30-minute situations, I just lock the front wheel and the frame to a rack/meter. (Actually, I think a cable lock would be OK for these situations, but since you'll need to get a u-lock for other situations, might as well use it.) If I'm going to be locking it up for longer periods, particularly if it's going to be out of sight the whole time, I would use a cable with the u-lock to lock up both front and rear wheels. I NEVER leave lights on the bike, except at the garage at my work (also in Oakland). Brooks saddles---I personally don't worry about it, particularly on a coffee/errand run. But if you were to park it at Bart everyday all day, I wouldn't be surprised if it got stolen on a bad luck day. As for bags, I generally leave my Carradice on the bike, but I have a nagging worry that it could get stolen. I would not leave an easily detachable bag, such as removable panniers, on the bike. >From personal experience, I have had the following happen to me over the past 10 years. I have had a seat bag with tools stolen while parked at Rockridge BART all day, a seatpost and saddle from a beater stolen (had a QR, I should have known better) while parked at Rockridge BART all day, an unlocked bike stolen from my side yard at my old house in Oakland (which was not in Rockridge), a cable-locked bike stolen from the North Berkeley Bart station while parked there all day. I would think this is fairly representative for someone who is generally careful, but not obsessive. Drop me a line offlist, Greg On Nov 10, 11:00 pm, jose <jose.cor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All. I just moved to Oakland (Rockridge) from Houston and I'm > curious what peoples opinions are parking your Rivs here are. > > In Houston, I felt fairly comfortable with locking up my Atlantis with > bags/lights/brooks onboard with just a cable lock during the day. No > one there pays too much attention to an old looking slow bike with a > bunch of crap on it (ha!). > > Here I see only beater-bikes with no bags/lights/brooks parked on the > street. > > So I'm wondering how secure I should go. Never leave lights on the > bike? Cover up the Rivendell logos? Get one of those locking seat > post clamp things? I realize that no bike on the street is ever safe, > but I'd like get a sense of what the probability of getting my stuff > jacked here is. > > Oh, and I'm asking for during the day coffee and errand type trips. > For BART parking and late-night pub crawls I just bought a $50 > craigslist special, but I would really like to be on my Atlantis as > much as I can be. > > Thanks in advance, > -- J. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
