Almost every time I go out I see $5-7,000 ebikes being locked up with $20 Amazon folding locks and nothing else. In order to own a bike you should be forced to watch a video that shows how fast a cordless angle grinder can go through a cheap bike lock. Maybe it might change a few minds at least.
Makes it easy to tell who the seasoned bike owners are and who are the ones that just bought their first expensive ebike. Another I’ve encountered is people saying “I’ll just park it in a really visible spot”. Doesn’t matter. They will cut your lock even in the middle of a crowd in daylight because nobody will stop them.
Almost every time I go out I see $5-7,000 ebikes being locked up with $20 Amazon folding locks and nothing else.
As I waited outside of a store with the bikes that my wife and I were using, I was observing the other cyclists who were stopping at the store.
I honestly couldn’t believe how many would either NOT LOCK THEIR BIKE or use something that could be broken with your bare hands. The only person I saw locking their bike up mindfully was a lady with an e-bike who absolutely looked like her bike was her main vehicle.
Same thing with schools. Parents sending their kids to school by bike, but then give them a dollar store lock. It’s not worth the hassle to cheap out on a bike lock.
This is why it’s so important to have bike lockers downtown. It saves bikes, people don’t have to buy multiple expensive locks to keep their bikes safe, and it staves off crime.
Most of the bike lockers here cost a nickel per hour. Fully enclosed, all metal, out of sight and out of mind, even if your city has addicts that steal anything not welded to the ground.
All of the above is good! We have lots of racks, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have an extra long chain because there’s sometimes no racks nearby, and you have to improvise with a streetlamp or something similar.
I’m the opposite: I ride entry level bikes with good locks.
For real! The only bike I’m willing to lock up anywhere is worth much less than the lock(s) protecting it.
I’d still hate to lose it. Thieves could steal my car, and it would be more like “thank god, take the fucking thing!”. But my bike? Man, that would hurt me to the core.
Almost every time I go out I see $5-7,000 ebikes being locked up with $20 Amazon folding locks and nothing else. In order to own a bike you should be forced to watch a video that shows how fast a cordless angle grinder can go through a cheap bike lock. Maybe it might change a few minds at least.
Makes it easy to tell who the seasoned bike owners are and who are the ones that just bought their first expensive ebike. Another I’ve encountered is people saying “I’ll just park it in a really visible spot”. Doesn’t matter. They will cut your lock even in the middle of a crowd in daylight because nobody will stop them.
As I waited outside of a store with the bikes that my wife and I were using, I was observing the other cyclists who were stopping at the store.
I honestly couldn’t believe how many would either NOT LOCK THEIR BIKE or use something that could be broken with your bare hands. The only person I saw locking their bike up mindfully was a lady with an e-bike who absolutely looked like her bike was her main vehicle.
Same thing with schools. Parents sending their kids to school by bike, but then give them a dollar store lock. It’s not worth the hassle to cheap out on a bike lock.
This is why it’s so important to have bike lockers downtown. It saves bikes, people don’t have to buy multiple expensive locks to keep their bikes safe, and it staves off crime.
Most of the bike lockers here cost a nickel per hour. Fully enclosed, all metal, out of sight and out of mind, even if your city has addicts that steal anything not welded to the ground.
I wish! It’s a BATTLE to even get shitty wheelbender racks installed at multi-business plazas!
I’m fine with having basic racks, but anything is better than nothing. And bike lockers would be incredible.
All of the above is good! We have lots of racks, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have an extra long chain because there’s sometimes no racks nearby, and you have to improvise with a streetlamp or something similar.
I’m the opposite: I ride entry level bikes with good locks.
They get me there just fine, are less likely to be targeted by thieves, and if they are, they’re much cheaper to fix or replace.
For real! The only bike I’m willing to lock up anywhere is worth much less than the lock(s) protecting it.
I’d still hate to lose it. Thieves could steal my car, and it would be more like “thank god, take the fucking thing!”. But my bike? Man, that would hurt me to the core.
If I caught someone trying to steal my bike or car I’d probably take it pretty personally but yeah, I think I might be angrier about the bicycle.