Maybe the homeless man would have been clueless, but the thief would have noticed. Especially if the bike was secured with a compact u-lock.
Once you have a significant tube u-locked to a bike rack, the frame is secure, the rest is noise. My U lock is 1.6 pounds. The pits weigh less than regular skewers. It works. On Monday, June 22, 2015 at 9:03:54 PM UTC-5, Anne Paulson wrote: > > The locks are a good idea, but I doubt that the homeless man who > bought the bike for $30 would have noticed the pitlocks. > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Will <waller....@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Well now that you have it back... put pitlocks on the wheels and > seatpost. > > It will cost $100 to do it, but once done, a thief cannot sell your bike > > with secured wheels and seatpost without an outrageous story. > > > > No one will buy a bike that has unfixable flats. Every potential buyer > will > > notice during the illicit purchase that the seatpost cannot be adjusted. > > > -- > -- Anne Paulson > > It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. > -- 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.
