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  • Leeds used to be pretty safe in terms of leaving your bike, as long as you had a d lock you’d be alright. There’s been a big increase in bike and component theft over the past year and with winter coming I thought I would try and wintrify and beaterfy the Argos. It’s been in progress for a while with stem and post being replace with system x, put some spare gators on (protection from the glass strewn streets) and some bluemels I had spare from a previous project instead of the hammered VO guards I had on previously. Finally replaced the c17 with an old selle campionissimo. Hopefully it looks shit enough to fool the thieves.

  • Still looks pretty nice imo !

    increase in bike and component theft

    Hexlox to secure some of the components? I find it reassuring locking down the seatpost saddle and stem / bars. I also bought on of their wheel nut things so I only had to lock one wheel with a d lock.

  • I wonder if they feel cheated from a theft they’ll just kick the bike in instead? So the aim has been to build something without desirable extremities rather than protect desirable extremities....

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