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Article #61Re: Bicycle theft alert
From: Don Fong
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 00:00
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In article <dickmanD6oGsG.H1u@netcom.com>,
Bob Dickman <dickman@netcom.com> wrote:
>I have a bike locking theory that I use with my ugly but very nice old
>Ritchie converted hybrid. I figure that true bike thieves are cruising
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>around prepared to defeat state-of-the-art locking methods. Currently,
>those methods involve U-locks. So I lock mine with a simple cable lock
>and padlock. I figure it's unlikely that a thief will be prepped to
>defeat both U-locks *and* cables. In a sense, I feel safer than if I
>had locked with a U-lock. Plus, I save alot of weight. Anyone concur
>or object to this theory?
one problem with your theory is that there may be both true bike
thieves *and* untrue bike thieves cruising around. :-|
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d50a,4448dd83e8e6ee75 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d50a,public X-Google-Thread: 10decc,4448dd83e8e6ee75 X-Google-Attributes: gid10decc,public From: dfong@cse.ucsc.edu (Don Fong) Subject: Re: Bicycle theft alert Date: 1995/04/07 Message-ID: <3m476o$nuf@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> X-Deja-AN: 100093369 references: <dickmanD6oGsG.H1u@netcom.com> organization: UC Santa Cruz CIS/CE newsgroups: scruz.general,ba.bicycles