Black Sheep
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i used to leave a £1000 custom built mtb outside my uni building very often and never had a single problem
basically when you lock it up you need to be a complete arse about it
i could have locked it with two cables through the wheels and onto a D lock so it all came undone with one key, but no, 4 locks did the job nicely, locked away in a bit of campus that you only went through to get to one specific building.
Coventry university's campus is also a main foot path from two large car parks and the rough bit of the city into the centre.
as people have said, what ever you get, get the gaffa tape out or better still, paint.
my frame was white and I painted black splodges on it so it looked like a cow, all my friends thought it was kind of cool and i guess it was a bit too distinctive to consider pinching - that and there were no badges or logos to know what it was
a lock through the rear triangle and wheel holds the back end nicely, a lock through the front wheel looping through the fork bridge (if you have suspension forks) works well, both locks also locking to something more solid than the frame itself, if they want it, they'll have to cut the frame
position the locks to make it hard to get to and it'll be harder for them to pick,
get some superglue disolver incase anyone puts glue in your lock thinking they'll come back at 3am when its quiet
basically when you lock it up you need to be a complete arse about it
i could have locked it with two cables through the wheels and onto a D lock so it all came undone with one key, but no, 4 locks did the job nicely, locked away in a bit of campus that you only went through to get to one specific building.
Coventry university's campus is also a main foot path from two large car parks and the rough bit of the city into the centre.
as people have said, what ever you get, get the gaffa tape out or better still, paint.
my frame was white and I painted black splodges on it so it looked like a cow, all my friends thought it was kind of cool and i guess it was a bit too distinctive to consider pinching - that and there were no badges or logos to know what it was
a lock through the rear triangle and wheel holds the back end nicely, a lock through the front wheel looping through the fork bridge (if you have suspension forks) works well, both locks also locking to something more solid than the frame itself, if they want it, they'll have to cut the frame
position the locks to make it hard to get to and it'll be harder for them to pick,
get some superglue disolver incase anyone puts glue in your lock thinking they'll come back at 3am when its quiet
