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Article #63Re: Bicycle theft alert
From: ez.
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 00:00
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I think all that's necessary to cut a cable is some sort of metal snips/plier thingy. You might be more careful - my bike was locked with a cable and padlock and was stolen from the Berkeley campus in the middle of the day in front of a busy building entrance. I'd say at least use a u-lock to slow them down... -erik In article <dickmanD6oGsG.H1u@netcom.com>, dickman@netcom.com (Bob Dickman) 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? > > -- > ------------------ > Bob Dickman > dickman@netcom.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10decc,4448dd83e8e6ee75 X-Google-Attributes: gid10decc,public X-Google-Thread: 10d50a,4448dd83e8e6ee75 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d50a,public From: zing@cafe.berkeley.edu (ez.) Subject: Re: Bicycle theft alert Date: 1995/04/08 Message-ID: <zing-0804951634400001@lsmf-30.berkeley.edu> X-Deja-AN: 100093360 references: <dickmanD6oGsG.H1u@netcom.com> organization: uc berkeley newsgroups: scruz.general,ba.bicycles