What's your best security tip?

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Wheeledweenie

Über Member
Get it insured, buy a Sold Secure lock, be sensible and hope for the best.

I took mine clubbing on Saturday night and locked Reg (my bike) to a lamppost with the lock through the frame and wheel and a cable round the other wheel. I took all removable temptations such as lights but, more importantly, said lamppost was 10 yards from bouncers at said club, in a bright pool of light.

Even if the bouncers had been dodgy there's always CCTV outside nightclub entrances. And he is, of course, insured.
 

tmcd35

Active Member
Location
Norfolk
I've got fixed railing outside my front door, ideal for locking a bike to with a Sold Secure Silver D-Lock. I've put up a recording CCTV camera pointing at the railings so if anyone as a gp they'd be caught on camera :laugh: That and I insisted on a bike with a QR front wheel, so if they did steel the bike in front of a CCTV camera they couldn't ride it away, would have to carry.

Also, I live in a first floor flat so they'd have to carry down the stairs :tongue:
 

GrasB

Veteran
Location
Nr Cambridge
BentMikey said:
I don't think very many people would be capable of riding my bike away.
Why do you say that? I've ridden a tadpole & a short wheelbase 'bent both were a piece of p*** to ride. The only thing is you definitely use your muscles in a different way on a recumbent.... my legs were mildly sore the day after, fun though & certainly always in the back of my mind to buy one at some point.
 

BentMikey

Rider of Seolferwulf
Location
South London
Perhaps because most of my mates who tried to ride my Hurricane couldn't, not without lots of me holding them up and running with them first. A few managed, but only a relative few in a selection of 30 or so. All were amongst the better skaters in Hyde Park, so fairly fit, co-ordinated, and more likely to do well at other balance sports, IMO.

Then again, a quasi-lowracer Hurricane and a lowracer Fujin are amongst the more extreme recumbents to try riding. Fairly upright ones tend to be much easier.
 

GrasB

Veteran
Location
Nr Cambridge
Fair enough, I may have got on an easy to ride short wheelbase then, that or rowing &/or skulking gives you a good heads up on things balance wise on a recumbent.
 
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