Thank goodness Leah...what a heartbreaker if your lovely BF was stolen. Glad she's still there
On Friday, October 21, 2016 at 10:37:07 AM UTC-5, LeahFoy wrote: > > Faith in humanity remains! The Best Bike in the World is still mine! > [image: image1.JPG] > > [image: image2.JPG] > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 21, 2016, at 8:24 AM, Scott Henry <ske...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > What I generally do anytime that I am leaving the bike without a lock > (which I rarely carry) is just prevent it from being ridden off. I'll do > some combination of loosening all the QR levers, intentionally overshift to > drop the chain off the big ring and generally wrap a toe strap around a > crank arm or stays/spokes. Someone can still grab the bike and toss it > in the truck, but most bike thefts are ride-off crimes of opportunity. > If they grab it from the rack and the front wheel falls off or they can't > pedal away, hopefully they'll grab something else. > > People don't steal your bike because its anything special, people steal > bikes because they are easy to take. > Scott > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:00 AM, LeahFoy <jonasa...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I got to school and realized I don't have my bike lock. I'm here only for >> an hour or two to volunteer in my son's 2nd grade class. I have no choice >> but to leave The Best Bike in the World unlocked in the rack in front of >> the school office. TBBITW is finally set up exactly the way I've always >> dreamed - Big Nitto Front Rack, Big Nitto Back Rack, baskets and bags >> galore, and all the other accoutrements. It would be a crying shame to lose >> it now. All I can think about is this week's post from The Bike Snob about >> his stolen bike - which he left at HIS son's school! >> >> -- >> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/IWV-0H8eGeY/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
