Yes, the CC footage has been passed to the beat cops for that area, so we will wait and see what happensIf you are lucky, those "jakies" will be already known to the Police, and if they want to get those stats up...
In cities like London if I can't see my bike when locked I don't need to go there.
what's your bike?In cities like London if I can't see my bike when locked I don't need to go there.
Having read all this I know why bike insurance is so expensive now....
And some folk only have one bike, so why not get the best they can afford?Storage space, at home, can be a limiting factor as well.Bike insurance is expensive because generally the only people who bother to have it are the ones who own expensive bikes and insist on using them in high risk locations. That means the whole insurance risk pool is dodgy and is not diluted by having a large number of insured low-value, low theft risk bikes. i suspect there's also a disproportionate amount of bike insurance fraud being perpetrated compared with motor or household domestic claims.
I'd leave that suitably locked in a suitable place in london, or get a second bike for locking if possible. Plenty of things to be doing in town(at least outside this hell) and can't be cramping your style with having to bikesit.It's a Rayleigh Royal I got new and had for years upgrading as I went along. It does all I need it to and more.
And some folk only have one bike, so why not get the best they can afford?
No-one is forced to only have one bike no matter how tight your storage space is. A cheap hack can always live outside, even on the street chained to a railing or lamp post if you haven't got a garden. Two of mine are currently locked up in the garden, with carrier bags over the saddles. The chains get a quick squirt of lube before being ridden and that's all they need.
Even if you only have one bike, why the need for it to be an expensive one? Plenty of people only have one car, and they aren't all Rolls-Royces. There's absolutely nothing wrong with only having cheap bikes, cheap cars, cheap phones, cheap jeans or cheap anything else - so long as the item is functional and fit for purpose.
During the day?I wouldn't lock up a bike I paid £10 for in my neighbourhood. It wouldn't be there in the morning. And that's the sad reality of many places in the UK.
I was responding to skipdiver john's quote "A cheap hack can always live outside, even on the street chained to a railing or lamp post if you haven't got a garden. " I couldn't even leave a cheap bike outside for much over half a day where I live. Even during the day, it would be gone.During the day?
I wouldn't generally leave a bike overnight anywhere.