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Your photo shows two male racks and only one female. That is discriminatory.
Won’t someone teach the person riding the hipster-fixie to secure one of their wheels? Part of me really wants to go around taking wheels off of bikes and leaving them next to the bike with a passive-agressive note.
Part of you, Graham? Or all of you?
Only part. Actually all of me for this bike. Especially with that 650/700 wheel set. Are doing bar spins that important? I’m just glad this person is getting some birth control. Inorite?
Hey Graham, I don’t think that bike has quick releases. It might even have a locking skewers. Why you gotta hate?
Someone’s going to lose an eye, or their male member, on those things.
@luckymike: Any decent thief is gonna have a 15mm wrench with them. And a 5mm allen. I could get the wheels off that bike in about 20 seconds. Also, you can’t use locking skewers on horizontal dropouts (I can’t tell from this picture what that frame has).
I can understand that sometimes it’s just nearly impossible to lock a wheel and the frame. But these are nicely shaped bike racks. It would take 0% extra effort to lock a wheel and the frame.
Where’s the Trans bike lock?
I understood about four words of Graham’s comment.
FOUR WORDS.
Wow, Graham. Maybe the rider was just stopping by to grab a couple condoms? It’s silly to spend 60 seconds threading a cable through your wheels when you’re only going to be inside a place for 30 seconds.
Yeah, a thief could steal stuff quickly. But it just doesn’t happen all that often in Portland, especially in broad daylight / on a well-traveled street.
I wouldn’t be surprised if one of those wheels got jacked if the bike was left locked there for a few days, or even overnight…but really– even in downtown Portland, the risk is low. This ain’t NYC.
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For Graham.
I never knew Graham was such a bike snob. Way to go Graham!