Hi, Eric. Roberta from Philadelphia here, owner of your Wald basket giveaway (thank you). We met in Rittenhouse Square. Congratulations on your new adventure.
Personally, I love riding a pretty bike and would be sad riding anything less. You know how ugly most of the commuter bikes here are. You couldn't uglify a Riv enough. You didn't ask about locks, but I'll throw that idea out--use excellent locks, one or two frame/back wheel to rack and one front wheel to frame. Many of these better locks come with enough insurance to cover the bike if you register the lock and it gets stolen (I just got a NY standard lock, just one step down from their best Kryptonite, as a third lock to my good Arbus ones). Big negative is weight. Then use the the other ideas above. For 25 years, I locked my Specialized Hardrock in Philly with this two lock method and still had it to sell to help finance my Riv. Granted, not as desirable as a Riv, but it always looked way better than the other bikes locked nearby. On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 3:04:00 PM UTC-4, Eric Karnes wrote: > > Evening all- > > I'm interested in some group brainstorming. I recently moved to a > university area where I'm told there is a high incidence of bike theft. > (Granted this is a town in the UK and I just move here from Philadelphia, > so perhaps I should take that claim with a grain of salt). Nevertheless, my > AHH will shortly arrive here via Bikeflights. > > I'm a firm believer in riding my 'good bikes' anywhere and everywhere, but > I don't want to tempt fate. So I'm looking for ideas: how could I make my > Hilsen look less desirable to opporunistic British bike thrives? It's brown > and has albatross bars so it already looks a bit like an old British beater > to the uninformed. But all brainstorming welcome! I was thinking lots of > stickers and a bit of thoughtfully-smeared dirt. > > Thanks in advance! > > Eric > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/2f5bb138-bb5b-4f65-8bba-db4a50ccd6a2%40googlegroups.com.
