Bike Thieves like to shop at Clarendon Wednesday to Friday

[krazygl00]

This is a great write-up on locks and thieves, that I think someone (I forget who) posted to this forum a while back. Thanks, forgotten mystery poster!

http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-bike-lock/

[krazygl00]

This is a great write-up on locks and thieves, that I think someone (I forget who) posted to this forum a while back. Thanks, forgotten mystery poster!

http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-bike-lock/

[brendan]

I’ve been parking my Big Dummy outside of the Galaxy Hut on Wilson Blvd. about 20% of the time, including overnight, for the past several years. Not because I’m a lush, but because my apartment was (until I moved out at the end of April) over the bar for the last 17 years. As far as I can tell, it was never molested by bikes thieves. Granted, I always use two differently-keyed locks, including a Fahgettaboudit, plus a cable.

In Shaw though, I’ve had accessories stripped off the bike twice while parked overnight. Also, car window smashed in.

Moral of the story: lock your bike well and budget for car window replacement(s).

PS – ok, also, I suppose the door staff was probably acting as a semi-official bike guard from 5pm to 2am every day as well.

[cvcalhoun]

Some years ago, when my bike was stolen, I got two pieces of advice from the police:

• Use more than one type of lock. Thieves usually carry tools for only one type, so having two tends to foil them.
• If parking for Bethesda Metro Station, just park the bike in front of the police station across the street, instead of parking in the Metro Station itself.

The second item is obviously specific to one Metro station. But it is true generally that Metro stations tend to have enough bikes parked in one location to attract bike thieves, so parking just a little way away may be safer.

Of course, my chief defense against theft these days is to have a 10-year-old Trek hybrid, and try to park it where there are enough high-end bicycles around that no one will want mine.

[Steve]

@brendan 85065 wrote:

I’ve been parking my Big Dummy outside of the Galaxy Hut on Wilson Blvd. about 20% of the time, including overnight, for the past several years.

I always wondered who owned that bike, as I would ride by it with jealousy.

[brendan]

@Steve 85077 wrote:

I always wondered who owned that bike, as I would ride by it with jealousy.

I got in the habit of parking it outside full-time after breaking my collarbone made it difficult to carry/maneuver up the stairs into the apartment, even after “healing”, then later surgery to affix a plate, then actual healing (this was over a year or so).

B

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