I worked at a university. Students had very expensive bikes everywhere. I chained my beater up next to my office. I rode around campus because of traffic and finding parking. My beater was stolen and the expensive ones were left. I found out security thought it looked bad and took it out of the bike rack.

@TheWrongButton

8 ай бұрын

Did you get your bike back?

@vanceagher

8 ай бұрын

What a dumb reason, they moved it because it looked bad!?

@markfletcher4605

8 ай бұрын

According to research done in Toronto, Canada area, people with mid-range and lower priced bikes are much more likely to have their bikes stolen than extremely expensive bikes. This trend is also present in California, USA where I live. It is a misnomer that bike thieves only target expensive bikes.

@endurancegoliath4569

7 ай бұрын

@@markfletcher4605 in my country it's definatly the expensive ones. Heck; in some places they will just pull you off the bike and rob you from your bike if needed. The old beat up bikes only get stolen over the weekend, because some drunken fool decides it's to far to walk home, so they grab the first bike they can easily steal, which in most cases is a rundown bike ( or well; at least mostly over the weekend)

@AWriterWandering

7 ай бұрын

@@markfletcher4605 can you give the name of the research article? I’d love to look it up to see the details.

Don't insure your bike with Bikmo. I had my bike locked up with a gold standard lock and they found a loophole to avoid paying. This has also happened to many other people.

@426baron

8 ай бұрын

To my knowledge, those bike theft insurances that all recently recently popped up are scams. You can see the loopholes right from the first proposals they send you if you show any interest. Better see your usual insurance company. That's how I learned my house insurance also included my bikes wherever they may be stolen from.

I remember couple years ago my bike got stollen while I was at my apartment in Arizona, and I tried reporting it stolen, however if it's not worth I want to say around $1,000 police won't do crap.

I own a pretty expensive bike. I use one good lock to deter opportunity thieves. For everything else I have an insurance, that will pay 100% of the new bike price if stolen.

I've got a $16 alarm that works fine.

Nice video. Around 5 mins you mention adding glue to add security to wheel clamps and seat-post clamps etc. This DOES work but not ANY glue. You neglected to mention you are talking about cyanoacrylate commonly known as "superglue" and acetone is a solvent for that (nail varnish remover is principally acetone). Just a small point. a small ball-bearing pushed into the Allen-key slot and secured with cyanoacrylate will prevent easy access if a thief has the correct Allen-key. Perhaps talking a little slower would also be good, just IMHO as a videographer.

Great video! However, I`d recommend different security skewers. The ones you recommend can be easily opened with tools you can buy. Pinheads have a unique key. You can also order more skewers, seat etc locks for the same key

@julianallen515

8 ай бұрын

I had pinheads and they are good but bulky, as are the "keys" to unlock them. Also, they won't fit many applications like seattube clamps where the sides aren't parallel. I changed to hexlox which are smaller, lighter an more neat. The " key" to remove the hexlox is tiny and sits unobtrusively on your keyring. The only limitation is if you use non-ferrous bolts but even then you can buy a sticker which goes inside the bolt head to make it magnetic.

@kellylingus

8 ай бұрын

@@julianallen515 Seems cool. But are they Canadian, like pinheads? What if you lose the key? I never carry keys in my pocket when riding. Sharp objects near your groin could be bad in an accident. It doesn`t appear they sell in Western Canada

@julianallen515

8 ай бұрын

@@kellylingusIN order of your asking: No. Buy another, just the same as if you lose your pinhead key. That's why I put them in my back pocket on a carabiner and they aer not sharp. You can buy them easily online.

@AWriterWandering

7 ай бұрын

Abus offers security skewers and seat post locks that rely on gravity. Basically, you have to put the bike on its side to release the mechanism, which should be nearly impossible if the bike is properly secured to a rack.

Dude such nostalgia !!!

There are free services in the US like Bike Index with which you can record the serial number and other information about your bike, and share it online. Not sure if there is something similar in the UK.

@Moshimulations

Жыл бұрын

We have bike register.

@BartAnderson_writer

Жыл бұрын

@@Moshimulations , the online registries make it much easier to recover a bike. Some police departments use them too.

@Moshimulations

Жыл бұрын

@@BartAnderson_writer Bike Register is used by many police services

@julianallen515

8 ай бұрын

And Project 529 is the best system on the West Coast.

@BartAnderson_writer

8 ай бұрын

@@julianallen515 , haven't heard of it. Will look up. Thanks

I love in Berlin and my bike didn't get stolen in 10 years because I'm using 2 top of the line locks. Oh and now my bike is looking rusty and quite run down so nobody wants to steal it anymore.

the best way to avoid your bike getting stolen: use 2 locks. The lock that comes with the bike itself and a lock you can use to attach your bike to a fixed object like a gate, streetpole ect. And for gods sake; put that second lock through the frame, not the wheel.....thats about the best way to avoid it getting stolen. And ofcourse buy a quality lock, not a generic cheap padlock or a numeric padlock; those can be opened so easily...sadly, in my country the stats are alot worse; on average a bike gets stolen every minute. 1500 bikes per day on average

Would you like to park your bike safely in the city? Park it at 1 of the Biesieklette bicycle parking facilities it's free.

Living in a lawless society calls for extreme measures!

Keep you bikes in sight, take them in the house,,, not the garage/shed,, get a beater if you have to, take the bike in the store/work with you, I have a cargo van with deadlocks and alarm, bikes are safer there then in the house/garage/shed..

Where is the GPS tracker?

Thieves dont care about alarm going on, please watch other KZread’s videos. The locks here will be cut apart within 7 seconds

LPL would laugh at this. A lot of claims being made in this video without any evidence. Are alarmed locks effective deterrents? What are the stats on the recommendations made?

3:49 This is Berlin

Hi man! How do I contact you??

@DiscerningCyclist

Жыл бұрын

How can I help?

@speedyflixofficial

Жыл бұрын

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@DiscerningCyclist

Жыл бұрын

Please email pete@discerningcyclist.com

Excellent video! It’s about time someone took a good, hard look at bike security.

Get an ugly bike like that and nobody would steal.

@white_karnickel

9 ай бұрын

exactly ... i have that with my scooter, old and boring looking ... can leave it everywhere without big security ...

Get a litelok.

I refuse to become a slave of my bike. I don’t buy expensive stuff that I need to worry about too much. That includes bicycles. They only expensive stuff I have are home and car, and they are properly insured.

Украиниц?

Jesus Christ, the first two minutes of this video spent covering bike theft statistics. Was it necessary?