I have no idea how the food chain of locks plays in the typical drug-needy bike thief, they are looking for items to sell fast, at a known price. Here the police responding to a friend's break-in said there are dealer of hot goods that frequent certain convenience store parking lots and have sort of a fixed price wholesale trade; CDs $3, DVDs $5, laptops $50, and bikes usually trade from junkie thieves for $20. I don't think the aforethought of a cordless angle grinder and ability to spot a secluded-enough bike to chop free occurs in this criminal subset. The good news about this tier of thief is that they are not discriminating, any bike will score them the same price.
Someone willing to fight better security of location and locking is a bike-specific thief and those rings do move around regions to hit the value, fill their till and move on before their pattern is clear to enforcement. Info on the guy with Rusty Clicks Sam will be interesting to hear. one of those rings and individuals making contacts locally, establishing a background that built plausibility for higher volume of parts and frames for sale. They disappear when someone starts asking questions. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Thursday, September 11, 2014 12:00:15 PM UTC-4, Jim M. wrote: > > On Thursday, September 11, 2014 7:46:54 AM UTC-7, Andrew Marchant-Shapiro > wrote: >> >> Which raises an interesting question, since many of us use >> U-locks-and-cable approaches. Are there ways of locking up with a U-lock >> (preferrably a smallish one) that defeat most methods of defeating the >> things? >> >> Simple answer: No. > > An angle grinder will cut through any u-lock pretty quickly. You can see > videos on youtube of how fast it is. I've seen a titanium lock -- Tigr IIRC > -- that will delay an angle grinder longer, but still isn't uncuttable. It > sounds like the recovered Sam had it's lock picked or else not latched > completely. > > > jim m > wc ca > -- 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.
