How do you secure your bikes while camping?
Our family just upgraded from Walmart bikes to new better quality bikes that we will take camping. I am a little concerned about the bikes getting stolen from the campsite, this has happened to peopl...
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Bikes are just too easy to steal. If I'm not sitting on it or doing something with it, I lock it. It only takes seconds for someone to hop on and ride off, or grab it, stuff it in a car, and head for the hills... and even though the bike's frame may have the serial number registered with the local popo... most bikes past the department store junk can be disassembled and parted out for more than what the bike cost (especially wheels, forks, derailleurs, and brakes), so the bad guys know this and just break up the bikes to sell at a flea market a county or two over.
I worked in a previous life at a university in Austin, which used to be one of the top 10 cities for bike theft. It had gotten better, but there was a time when bike theft was so bad, that people would even steal forks, pedals, wheels, and other parts. From the university setting, it is an ingrained behavior of mine to lock things up, and use European "insurance locks" for the job.
I worked in a previous life at a university in Austin, which used to be one of the top 10 cities for bike theft. It had gotten better, but there was a time when bike theft was so bad, that people would even steal forks, pedals, wheels, and other parts. From the university setting, it is an ingrained behavior of mine to lock things up, and use European "insurance locks" for the job.
