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That’s fair enough, you know people who’ve lost their Brompton’s locking them up for a “little bit”, I know people who’ve owned and locked for years and their bikes always been there when they return, but the major point I’m trying to make stands, if your fear of losing your bike stops you from using it as much or as often, or as widely as you’d like, you lose the majority of the benefits of riding a bike/brompton.
We all know people who’ve lost bikes, bikes they’ve loved and slaved over, but often the voices saying you can’t lock your bike here, or there, or anywhere because it’ll get nicked are the loudest and skew massively the perception of how, where and when you can use a bike.
Yes losing a bike is shit! But the possibility of having your bike stolen is part and parcel of riding one, I wish it wasn’t, but whether for a Brompton or any other bike, the risk vs reward ratio shouldn’t be so tilted as to make the possibility that it will be stolen one of the first things that you need to tell people when they’re making a decision about purchasing one or using one.
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Glad your mileage varies. Several museums and restaurants I’ve visited won’t allow the folded bike passed the entrance, and it makes zero sense to leave an unlocked Brompton unattended and out of sight in public. I’ve managed to find workarounds, but it’s happened.
Thieves aren’t lurking under every rock, but in certain parts of London they might as well be. I know of 6 Brompton owners who ‘quickly’ locked their bike outside while they went shopping/dining/etc., and had it stolen.