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.
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.