I’m going to be parking my bike at a highschool. I will never leave it unattended overnight, but the bike will be there about 30 minutes after many students have left. Of course, there will be teachers roaming around the parking lot aswell as security guards, so I reflect they would help stop, or at least deter theives.

I will be locking my bike in this fashion: A excellent u-lock (Kryptonite Evolution or Kryptolok series 2) around my back wheel and frame securing it to the bike rack, and a cheap cable lock to secure my front wheel and saddle to the frame.

How do high school theives steal bikes? If they want to steal my bike, they will need a car jack and boltcutters, and they will also need to spend a excellent deal of time, probably 10-15 minutes stealing my bike. I don’t reflect they would do that, they would rather steal the bikes protected with a crappy cable lock.

The cable lock around my saddle and front wheel (and anchored to the frame) would preclude the opportunity for some random jackass to steal them for fun, right?

Are highschool thieves even smart enough to know what brand Giant is? Do they even care? My bike has no shock absorbers, and it doesn’t look ‘cool’ to the average highschool joe. Are highschoolers stupid enough to rather steal a ‘cooler looking’ annoyed or NEXT, just because it has shocks? My bike is an FCR3, a very nice bike fore smart people, a terrible ‘uncool’ bike for the average kid who subdue thinks he needs full suspension on the road. Its not a ‘cool’ mountain bike or a ‘cool’ BMX bikes, and those are the bikes stupid people probably reflect are better for commuting to school. I don’t mean any fault to any mountain bikes or BMX riders; I just watched the dew tour and the BMX stuff was snazzy, and mountain biking looks perilous and exiciting. I’m just saying, people shoudn’t commute to school on their BMX and mountain bikes, but on a nice hybrid or roadie.

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