What's your best security tip?

[kewb]

http://transport514.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/translinkbikelockers.jpg
some towns have lockers for bikes at bus stations etc cost a quid or something for the day and your bikes out of sight

 

[Wheeledweenie]

Get it insured, buy a Sold Secure lock, be sensible and hope for the best.

I took mine clubbing on Saturday night and locked Reg (my bike) to a lamppost with the lock through the frame and wheel and a cable round the other wheel. I took all removable temptations such as lights but, more importantly, said lamppost was 10 yards from bouncers at said club, in a bright pool of light.

Even if the bouncers had been dodgy there's always CCTV outside nightclub entrances. And he is, of course, insured.

 

[Wally]

Did you pull?

 

[tmcd35]

I've got fixed railing outside my front door, ideal for locking a bike to with a Sold Secure Silver D-Lock. I've put up a recording CCTV camera pointing at the railings so if anyone as a gp they'd be caught on camera That and I insisted on a bike with a QR front wheel, so if they did steel the bike in front of a CCTV camera they couldn't ride it away, would have to carry.

Also, I live in a first floor flat so they'd have to carry down the stairs

 

[BentMikey]

I don't think very many people would be capable of riding my bike away.

 

[GilesM]

drive everywhere and use it for recreation only

Very wise

 

[lit]

Very wise

A little paranoid.

 

[GrasB]

I don't think very many people would be capable of riding my bike away.

Why do you say that? I've ridden a tadpole & a short wheelbase 'bent both were a piece of p*** to ride. The only thing is you definitely use your muscles in a different way on a recumbent.... my legs were mildly sore the day after, fun though & certainly always in the back of my mind to buy one at some point.

 

[BentMikey]

Perhaps because most of my mates who tried to ride my Hurricane couldn't, not without lots of me holding them up and running with them first. A few managed, but only a relative few in a selection of 30 or so. All were amongst the better skaters in Hyde Park, so fairly fit, co-ordinated, and more likely to do well at other balance sports, IMO.

Then again, a quasi-lowracer Hurricane and a lowracer Fujin are amongst the more extreme recumbents to try riding. Fairly upright ones tend to be much easier.

 

[GrasB]

Fair enough, I may have got on an easy to ride short wheelbase then, that or rowing &/or skulking gives you a good heads up on things balance wise on a recumbent.