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You are right .what I meant is ride your race /Sunday best on them days but ride a cheaper/rat bike if you need to lock it up in the street. I built a rat bike just to lock up in town.
billygoat28-
Mega bucks cars are rarely targeted by thieves when parked on the streets, but bikes are all day long, frustrating and doesn't help cycling becoming more popular as a mode of transport.
Was on a multi day ride with some mates (spendy road bikes + bags), and we stopped in a town for some food, locked all the bikes up even though we were standing within 10-30m of them, as we were chatting at table outside pub, maybe 12m from the bikes a van pulled up and two guys just yanked the hell out of the pile of bikes to see what they could grab, then we noticed and 6 of us running at them, they took off. Couldn't chase, reported and police turned out, cloned plates + cctv wasn't that useful. Quite a lot of damage, mate had to get an expensive taxi and a train home as his rear wheel + mech was trashed, and end of the trip for him. Worst isn't the damage, its that all we remember of that trip (last good one before C19) was two scrotes jumping out of a van trying to rob a bike, and not the 3 days of amazing riding + mates. Fuckers.
BrickMan
People should be able to ride however nice a bike they like and not have to worry about it getting stolen. In the real world, and before any thefts have occurred, it's good advice to tell people not to leave bikes like that lying around, but after the fact it's definitely not a good thing to say. Telling people they're stupid for having done it is also completely unnecessary, as they'll already be telling themselves that in a way that has much more impact.