>>1780190Damn it's unfortunate. I used to live in a nicer city, where the cheapest harbor freight bike lock/chain that you could probably break apart with your hands was enough deterrent that I was able to leave my bike locked up all day pretty much anywhere. At work, at the bars, and so on, never the slightest problem. But now I live in a 60% "political, social, and economic factors" city with rampant bike theft. I've lived here before and used a heavy u lock and a steel cable but I was always hyper vigilant about my bike and never left it for long out of my sight.
Actually two "funny" stories about that. Broke the key off in the u-lock one night and had to come back the next day to get my bike, luckily it was only the steel cable actually holding it to the light post so I brought a hacksaw... And it took like 30 seconds by hand to cut through that thing. Was eye opening to say the least.
Another time I was going to the library downtown where there was bike parking literally right beside the security guard shack they had in the parking lot (due to vagrants and theft and such). As I'm locking my bike up the security guard tells me I gotta be careful, they've had a lot of bike thefts there. I was like wtf?? It's literally your job to prevent that. The bike rack was right outside his little shack clearly visible through his open window, how the hell does some crackhead steal a bike in that situation?
Anyway guess I'm going to get another U-Lock and a beefy looking chain and just hope the bastards will go for an easier target.
