When I'm out and about using a U-lock, the Sheldon Brown method is my preferred choice. Do have the luxury of having Pitlocks for the wheels available and will use them in appropriate situations. At work, I use the Kryptonite "New York" lock. However, it does stay on the rack in the garage. A heavy sucker to tote around.
For riding in DC I'd think that should suffice. Although if you wanted to also throw a cable lock around the front wheel, that couldn't hurt. Also, will take the bags off the bike when commuting. In fact, in my more paranoid moments, will only use one bottle cage. Just one lest thing to tempt. Eric Platt St. Paul, MN On Jan 25, 2:00 pm, Rick <richardholc...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Howdy. I commute on either a Bleriot or Atlantis, and face these > issues regularly, locking my bike up on the ground floor of a parking > garage adjacent to my building in a downtown area. There's a roof, > but it's open on two sides, and easily accessed from the sidewalk; a > fixie fellow had his unit nicked by a wayward snips-armed junkie that > cut a cable lock, dropping his works in the process. So theft is a > concern. > > Both bikes have some wheel-removal-impedance measures, one with the > zephyr locks that Rivendell offers, the kind where you have to invert > the bike to get the wheels off, the other with skewers that require a > special wrench, pit-lock style, on offer from Velo Orange. I have the > mini-cable that runs around the saddle supports, so taking off the > saddle and/or seat-post would take at least an allen wrench, some > initiative, and additional time. I carry the cable lock Rivendell > sells -- it's very good -- and also keep a u-lock on the rack, which > stays there full-time. > > I rely on the skewers to keep my front wheel on. I lock the rear > wheel and frame with u-lock and cable lock to the rack, making sure > that the lock attaches "in the triangle," per Sheldon. > > http://www.sheldonbrown.com/lock-strategy.html > > I've zip-tied on the bags that don't come off (that's the Keven's and > Li'l Loafer on the Atlantis) to discourage the laziest of thieves. On > the Bleriot, I use the Nitto saddlebag grip thing RBW sells to take > off the Sackville Medium Saddlesack and carry it into the building, it > works very well. > > And I think good thoughts. > > Rick. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
