Do you lock your bike when it's on a train?

[RichardB]

How can a theft be an opportunist? BB

Thieving stuff when the perpetrator sees an opportunity, rather than planned in advance.

 

[bonsaibilly]

Doh.

 

[Tim Hall]

But the chance of that happening on a train is a bit slim, as is someone just passing by with an industrial pair of wire cutters. I appreciate there are thieves who use these things but the majority of bike thefts are opportunists.

Big FO wire cutters are, indeed, unlikely to be carried on a train. However, I took your post to mean you (a) used this wire routinely (If I leave my bike anywhere I lock it up and preferrably to something solid.) and (b) thought it approaching invincible. It isn't.

 

[steveindenmark]

Big FO wire cutters are, indeed, unlikely to be carried on a train. However, I took your post to mean you (a) used this wire routinely (If I leave my bike anywhere I lock it up and preferrably to something solid.) and (b) thought it approaching invincible. It isn't.

I do use it routinely but with a cable lock and I like to cable lock it to something solid. My wire is to make sure the wheels and panniers dont go missing, but it also goes round a post as well.

Its a bit belt and braces, especially in Denmark, where decent bikes are often found alongside bus stops in the middle of the countryside.

 

[steveindenmark]

Thieving stuff when the perpetrator sees an opportunity, rather than planned in advance.

You mean when they see a nice Carbon bike on a train and leave their Halfords mountain bike and steals the nice unlocked Carbon bike.

What an opportunist he was

 

[Custom24]

You mean when they see a nice Carbon bike on a train and leave their Halfords mountain bike and steals the nice unlocked Carbon bike.

What an opportunist he was

As opposed to, for example, notices nice carbon bikes regularly on a train, some locked with a wire, gets on at a stop where there is no guard for the bike carriage, with bolt cutters.

 

[L Q]

I am clearly a trusting kid of guy.

I have travelled 3 times from York to Inverness now and not once have a locked my bike.

Last time I travelled I even left my panniers loose next to my bike in the storage area, I didn't even check them at all and the train must stop at 15 stations en route.

After reading this I wont do it again knowing some bikes have actually been stolen during a train journey.

 

[al78]

I've never locked my bike on a train, but for local journeys I am always very close to my bike, and for long journeys I take my folding bike. I've never had a problem yet however I don't really like putting the folder somewhere out of my sight but it is necessary occasionally when the train is very crowded.