I live in Somali...erm I mean Bristol, England, and I have a deliberately shitted up bike that I use whenever I'm expecting to leave it unattended. It's a nice bike in the sense that the frame is top notch, a 1992 Roberts DBX, and the groupset too, mostly XT with some DX, if it looked nicer it would probably fetch £700+ on ebay, but it looks like complete shite, mismatched tyres, saddle is torn and tattered, decals were peeled off badly by hand, Padals are scuffed to fuck as is the rear mech, I only clean it once a year or so, the point is to the untrained eye it looks like a pile of shit owned by someone who doesn't give a shit about it and accordingly it's never been stolen.
I see plenty of twats locking up their poser bikes next to mine, and I lost count of how many times I came back to the bike rack or railings to find cut locks on the ground where a hipster bike once stood, but my beautiful beater, that is an absolute joy to ride by the way and a much better bike than any of those £2000+ fancy pants consoomertard trashbikes that these cunts ride for the purposes impressing people who don't even notice them, never gets molested.
