🚀 go-pugleaf

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In article <1992Oct27.073007.25388@cs.brown.edu> cs123052@cs.brown.edu (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...)
>
>Does anybody out there know a good way of preventing or deterring a would-be-
>thief from doing this again?  I usually leave my bike in my dorm room, and

I managed to perform the *ultimate* fix on my Cannondale a few years
ago.  I rode all winter on the rollers, sweating like the proverbial
pig all the while.  When I decided to switch to a longer stem, I found
I couldn't budge the old one.  Not having access to the collected
wisdom of the universe via rec.bike.tech, I decided to bail out and
take my trusty steed to the local bike mechanic.  He finally had to
*saw off* the old stem and *hammer* the wedge out.

Note: Please don't flame me for my lack of maintenance... I *did* wipe
the bike down after every session on the rollers... Apparently, enough
industrial strength sweat had gotten in around the stem to sieze it.
I guess you could call it "biological welding".....

Mark (on your left) Hickey