Howdy. I commute on either a Bleriot or Atlantis, and face these issues regularly, locking my bike up on the ground floor of a parking garage adjacent to my building in a downtown area. There's a roof, but it's open on two sides, and easily accessed from the sidewalk; a fixie fellow had his unit nicked by a wayward snips-armed junkie that cut a cable lock, dropping his works in the process. So theft is a concern.
Both bikes have some wheel-removal-impedance measures, one with the zephyr locks that Rivendell offers, the kind where you have to invert the bike to get the wheels off, the other with skewers that require a special wrench, pit-lock style, on offer from Velo Orange. I have the mini-cable that runs around the saddle supports, so taking off the saddle and/or seat-post would take at least an allen wrench, some initiative, and additional time. I carry the cable lock Rivendell sells -- it's very good -- and also keep a u-lock on the rack, which stays there full-time. I rely on the skewers to keep my front wheel on. I lock the rear wheel and frame with u-lock and cable lock to the rack, making sure that the lock attaches "in the triangle," per Sheldon. http://www.sheldonbrown.com/lock-strategy.html I've zip-tied on the bags that don't come off (that's the Keven's and Li'l Loafer on the Atlantis) to discourage the laziest of thieves. On the Bleriot, I use the Nitto saddlebag grip thing RBW sells to take off the Sackville Medium Saddlesack and carry it into the building, it works very well. And I think good thoughts. Rick. -- 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-bunch@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.
