Silly question about locks on a road bike

[shootingstar]

The snob addressed bike theft just this week:

http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2008...ike-theft.html

Pay extra attention to #4!

The above has been the criteria..for the level & price that I paid for my bikes..since we're carless.

One of my sisters saw 2 different bike thefts in downtown Toronto. One of the bikes was locked to a chain fence. Another person witnessed a serious heist of a bike where the bike was thrown into a truck of other stolen (?) bikes.

A woman at work at her bike stolen that she hid underneath her RV. (kinda naive in my opinion since they have neighbours. She suspects it was one of her neighbours.)

I had my saddle stolen. So I had my quick release on my saddle post changed after they installed my new saddle. Yea, I had to walk home with the saddleless bike..thankfully not so far. At the bike store, the attending bike mechanic said to me that sometimes it's just someone who just playing a prank and would have thrown my saddle somewhere.

Same attitude for some car thefts that have occurred around here, where car gets stolen, driven and trashed inside where people have partied in it. Car is then left somewhere else in the city. With bikes it's even easier since in the minds of some folks, it's a small, lighter thing to play a theft "joke" on the owner.

Depending on the geometry of the bike, I've had my bike lock holder mounted on the bike..but I realize this is not possible for lighter, compact road bikes.

[Savra]

I recently moved to the Buffalo area from California and am constantly amazed at how people lock their bikes (or don't lock their bikes). For the most part they are rarely locked with the front wheel and frame secure. Most often it is just the front wheel secure. If the frame and wheel are secure then it is only with the flimsiest of locks. Coming from California that would be like asking someone to "pretty please" take my bike. Since I did pay so much for my bike I lock the wheel and frame with a U-lock from Kryptonite and a cable from Kryptonite holds my seat post on. Even if I'm just stopping in for lunch or grabbing something from the store I double lock.