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Article #18Re: Protecting your Stem from Theft
From: Gordon Hamachi
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 21:40
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 21:40
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Michael Lee writes > This past weekend, some person ripped off the handlebars from my > mountain bike. What the thief did was basically, cut the brake & derailleur > cables, unbolt the stem, and walk off with the entire assemblly. > (I was a bit surprised by this since I locked my bike under a light > post in front of the computer center...but anyways...) I once dismantled and repaired a friend's bicycle as it was locked in a very obvious position in front of the UC Berkeley undergraduate library. This was during the day, and a lot of people passed by. I must have spent over an hour. Nobody challenged me. I believe that no public, unsupervised parking spot is safe.
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Newsgroups: rec.bicycles Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!ames!decwrl!adobe!usenet From: hamachi@adobe.com (Gordon Hamachi) Subject: Re: Protecting your Stem from Theft Message-ID: <1992Oct27.214027.25039@adobe.com> Sender: usenet@adobe.com (USENET NEWS) Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated References: <1992Oct27.073007.25388@cs.brown.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 21:40:27 GMT Lines: 14