just a comment(stolen bikes)

[hiker chick]

Bravo on the upcoming new bike!

After your experience, I was so paranoid about my bike being on my car at the shop yesterday that I took it into the waiting room with me.

[BeeLady]

One tip I learned from driving my F250 Crew Cab Diesel pickup for 100,000 miles, if you have something on the back of your car (or in the bed of a really big truck) back into whereever you park. Back close enough to a wall or car behind you so the tail gate can't be opened or a bike can't be easily removed from a rear rack.

Another car can leave so that's why you should try and back it all the way up against a wall, post, etc. Won't make the bike impossible to steal but makes it a less easy target.

[CyclChyk]

oh yeh - post pics.... you must be so excited!

[Tuckervill]

One tip I learned from driving my F250 Crew Cab Diesel pickup for 100,000 miles, if you have something on the back of your car (or in the bed of a really big truck) back into whereever you park. Back close enough to a wall or car behind you so the tail gate can't be opened or a bike can't be easily removed from a rear rack.

Doesn't anyone else lock their bike to the rack? I have a rack that folds down and I run a cable through the bikes and attach the cable plus lock to the rack in a convenient hole. I also lock the rack to the hitch with a hitch pin lock. I know there are racks that hang off the back with straps and can't be locked onto the vehicle...but you could at least lock the bike to the rack and slow up the theives that way.

Karen

[suzieqtwa]

I have the rack that comes down ,and I ran a kryptonite cable through the bike and they just snipped it in half,and took the bike.

[BeeLady]

Yeah, my comment assumed that a person would only leave a bike on a car rack while locked. Locks don't take much to foil, but the physical difficulty of getting the proper leverage, and room to actually remove the bike would be an additional deterent.

[li10up]

I have the rack that comes down ,and I ran a kryptonite cable through the bike and they just snipped it in half,and took the bike.

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE WHO WALK AROUND WITH CUTTERS!!!!! And what truly amazes me is that nobody ever catches them in the act? I don't buy it. They just don't want to "get involved." I saw a show on tv about a guy stealing bikes. They showed him stealing them and there were all these people just walking by, looking at him but not saying a thing. So sad.........

[run it, ride it]

I keep my bicycle not only in my house, but in my room--my locked door is harder to get through than the front door, and my student housing is such a crack shack I'm thinking and thief crazy enough to think there might be anything valuable in here would give up shortly after they fell through the hole at the top of the stairs.

If the bike's in my van, I cover it with a blanket.

If for some reason I take it to campus, it enters every classroom with me, and you'd better bet I drag that thing into the bathroom, too!

Sucks that you have to be so paranoid... I've had a bike stolen before and it's just terrible. I was a kid and it was my only way to get to school.

The bike I actually commute with is probably worth about $10. I don't even lock it half the time, half-hoping someone WILL take it off my hands--but then I remember I paid a good $20 for the fenders and try to hold onto it.