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Re: Bicycle theft alert

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From: Don Fong
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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From: dfong@cse.ucsc.edu (Don Fong)
Subject: Re: Bicycle theft alert
Date: 1995/04/07
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