Stop stealing our bikes!!

[ldu03168]

Hi,

I'm a design student at Strathclyde University. I'm trying to design something to stop runts stealing our bikes.

Please fill in this survey to help me out.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=zjBWluQYmaMo_2bVXvUR6WHA_3d_3d

Thanks

Stuart

 

[Jake]

The Taliban have success with minefields, maybe an IDE attached to the bike? although you would still loose your bike.

 

[Amanda P]

What about bike cages/lockers? They don't get talked about much. They're suggested form time to time, and occasionally a council puts up half a dozen, but they never seem to last long.

That seems a shame because they prevent the bike being tampered with if you're away from it all day or overnight, prevent other cyclists knocking it over or scuffing it, and you can leave helmets, bags, lights and the like on the bike without fear of them disappearing.

At a station, when I'm away all day, I'd happily pay a pound or something a day to use one of these.

 

[HF2300]

What about bike cages/lockers? ... they prevent the bike being tampered with if you're away from it all day or overnight, prevent other cyclists knocking it over or scuffing it, and you can leave helmets, bags, lights and the like on the bike without fear of them disappearing...

An idea has been proposed to design a secure public bike stand with an integrated lock. As the lock is fixed, a heavy duty mechanism could be used to make the bike more resistant to theft. Does this sound like something you would use to lock your bike?

Sounds inferior to what's already available. There are a few around here, but not enough to be really useful.

 

[marinyork]

The problem with lockers is people usually try and keep them exclusive so only the nomenklatura at a workplace or whatever can use them. Or they put them in insane places (there's one in my city centre in the bowels of a multistorey car park that can hold a wait for it - whole 5 bikes!). It's a difficult issue as there are so many places with Sheffield Stand deserts, let alone anything better i.e. covered stand or secure stand.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Hang on, this is the third such survey in the last week or so.

Sorry, but I think it's bad form to show up on a forum as a noob, ask us to do this then never come back. Get a few hundred posts in, become a regular, and show you are remotely interested in cycling and I might be more obliging.

 

[ldu03168]

sorry comedy pilot, I wasn't aware being a seasoned poster on cyclechat was a pre requisite for being interested in cycling.

I'm just trying to hear the opinions of cyclists, so that I can design something effects that could help cyclists. Thought this would be a good way to here their views.

Feel free not to help, if you don't want to.

 

[sheddy]

done but please come back and tell us your findings

 

[ldu03168]

thank you

will do

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

done but please come back and tell us your findings

+1

 

[Mr Pig]

I wouldn't leave my bike outside locked to anything. When you're talking about locking up a bike you're really only talking about locking the frame and maybe a wheel. There is nothing to stop any passing cherub taking items/parts off the bike.

 

[ldu03168]

Thanks a lot for all your responses, great to hear your views.

Seems like a lot of people think it would be a good idea.

Keep them coming

Thanks

Stuart

 

[Will1985]

Don't worry about CP - as sheddy says, we are interested in the results for our own knowledge.

While you're around, feel free to pop your head into any of the other sections.

..and welcome.

 

[mickle]

Take a scrap bike, saw most of the way through the steerer just below the crown leaving a few mm still attached at the back, put a good sized dent in the front rim to really snatch the brake, undo the rear brake so that it doesn't function, leave it locked up at the top of a hill with the shittest lock available. Scum bag/ down hill/ face plant.

Alternatively.

Take a bike, cobble together an assembly incorporating a shotgun cartridge, install inside seat post, re-insert seatpost leaving it loose enough to slip down when scum-bag sits on bike. Seatpost activates firing pin which shoots the arse off scum-bag.

Or.

Soak some foam grips over night in a mix of 20% honey and 80% Mr Patel's The Last Word V.V.V.V Hot Chilli Sauce. Fit grips to bike (installer will require several levels of Personal protective Equipment including a positive pressure ventilator and Nomex gloves). Lock bike up with shoot lock. Scum bag sooner or later wipes eyes/ goes to toilet/ etc. The bastard stuff never comes off and has a half life of eighteen years.

Or just fill the frame with sweaty dynamite like off of the cowboy movies, scum bag goes off kerb and BOOOOM.

There's plenty more where they came from.

 

[Tynan]

surprised he didn't go to jail, that's blatantly criminal

if it was true that is, it's not is it