Maybe I got soft living in rural Australia for those seven years, but when I moved back to LA in February, I was confident that the venerable Kryptonite U-lock and cable combo would suffice for security in a highly visible public place.
Until I came back to the bike rack right outside of a busy grocery store no more than 10 minutes later to find that I had one more lock than I started with. Some resourceful and obviously practiced would-be thief pulled the two eyelets at the ends of my cable together and joined them with a storage unit grade padlock. This effectively locked my front wheel to the frame, rendering it unrideable. No doubt in the hope that I would leave it there to regroup temporarily if not overnight, returning to find I was in the market for a new (old) bike. I hefted and lugged and rolled and cursed my bike for the two miles back home. Plenty of time to meditate on my inner vigilante. An angle grinder made short work of the padlock. I kept it like a war vet trophy. Jeff Hagedorn Los Angeles, CA USA On Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:16:52 AM UTC-7, Shoji Takahashi wrote: > > You might want to add a cable lock. That's two locks instead of one > without adding much weight or nuisance to lock up. (The cable laced through > the wheels and locked with the U still means only one lock.) > -- 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.
