stopping my bike getting stolen!

[mjr]

Not sure anything can stop it getting nicked, it's all about reducing the risk of it getting nicked. Simple, cheap and easy measures first...

No point wasting your time, though. I don't think a sticker ever deterred a thief and few people buying a bike from a guy down the pub or hanging around outside uni buildings will be troubled by a removed sticker scuff or be checking frame numbers before handing over a note.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

I don't think a sticker ever deterred a thief and few people buying a bike from a guy down the pub or hanging around outside uni buildings will be troubled by a removed sticker scuff or be checking frame numbers before handing over a note.

Plenty of people are happy to buy bent gear of all descriptions with no questions asked if the price is right. Stolen quality power tools are another favourite form of black market currency. The demand is there, the thief is satisfying that demand.
Low value bikes are the best deterrent, even more so than good locks. A thief is unlikely to risk using an angle grinder in public to steal a £20 bike, but he might do for a bike that will net him £100 or £200 from a fence.

 

[classic33]

Plenty of people are happy to buy bent gear of all descriptions with no questions asked if the price is right. Stolen quality power tools are another favourite form of black market currency. The demand is there, the thief is satisfying that demand.
Low value bikes are the best deterrent, even more so than good locks. A thief is unlikely to risk using an angle grinder in public to steal a £20 bike, but he might do for a bike that will net him £100 or £200 from a fence.

How many £20 bikes have locks that cost as much, if not more than the bike?

Someone wants to take it, they'll take it.

 

[Alan O]

A thief is unlikely to risk using an angle grinder in public to steal a £20 bike, but he might do for a bike that will net him £100 or £200 from a fence.

Wouldn't it be easier to just saw through the fence?

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

I was referring to the type of fence that buys stolen goods from thieves, not the thing that you have round your garden!

 

[mjr]

I was referring to the type of fence that buys stolen goods from thieves, not the thing that you have round your garden!

Hark! I think I hear the sound of a joke falling flat.