locking your bike

GreenTeaDisease
GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
edited April 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
for those of you who get around on a bike, do you take the time to remove the front wheel (if it's quick release) and lock it to the back wheel and the back of the frame? Have you ever had a wheel stolen?
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  • NY PJ1
    NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    for those of you who get around on a bike, do you take the time to remove the front wheel (if it's quick release) and lock it to the back wheel and the back of the frame? Have you ever had a wheel stolen?


    this is why you're sweating
  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    NY PJ1 wrote:
    this is why you're sweating

    no I walked/T'd today. I sweat more walking than biking around here because there's no hills. if there were hills it would debatable.
  • theroachman
    theroachman Posts: 362
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    for those of you who get around on a bike, do you take the time to remove the front wheel (if it's quick release) and lock it to the back wheel and the back of the frame? Have you ever had a wheel stolen?


    Always lock them. I dont like to spend cash on something I could prevent. And yes I have had a front tire stolen and that old bike wasn't even a quick release.
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  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    i have a cable lock attached to my seat that hooks the back wheel and frame to a bike rack ... i then take my u-lock to lock the front wheel to my frame ...
  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,381
    NY PJ1 wrote:
    this is why you're sweating

    LOL!
  • NY PJ1
    NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    dissidentman wrote:
    LOL!


    ?? made sense at the time

    but she said she walked
  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    polaris wrote:
    i have a cable lock attached to my seat that hooks the back wheel and frame to a bike rack ... i then take my u-lock to lock the front wheel to my frame ...

    yeah I usually use two locks as well, it seems easier than removing the wheel, that's why I was curious.

    I've had 2 bikes stolen in the past two years which is just the worst feeling. both bikes were in the garage of my apartment complex and were double-locked. on one of them I had the old type of u-lock that were easily broken however. they were stolen by professional bike thieves who drive a truck right up to bike racks and just start breaking locks and filling up the truck. I'm trying to avoid that now- I've got a road bike that never leaves my sight and is always kept indoors, but I just got a commuting bike replacement that I would like to have for at least a year...I think it'll be better around here though. in durham petty crime like that is just crazy and there were a lot of places to get a truck full of bikes.

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