How To Lock Your Bike

don't lock a good bike outside. this really is the proper solution.

Nothing is safe, 1 lock, 2 locks whatever. Doesn't matter.

Quite recently a bike with 3 locks was nicked within 20 minutes in the stolen thread.

Proper locking or poor locking, the best locks or not, if it's a good bike, and a pro thief wants it, he'll get it.

I agree with you on some things, but disagree in the main.

Bikes can, and have been stolen from indoors also. So not leaving them outside isn't as perfect a solution as one might hope.

It is true that nothing is safe. Anything can be stolen, and that's why the security is as it is at Fort Knox....to so completely reduce the possibility of theft, that the gold therein is considered "safe". The same principal is true for locking bikes. Reduce the risk of theft as much as possible, so that the bike is as safe as one can possibly make it.

As for a bike being stolen with three locks is concerned, my own Klein was stolen with three u-locks on it. They were cheap locks though and I've learned my lesson since. Another thing is that not everyone reporting a theft on the Stolen Bikes thread is being honest. Some are embarrassed and lie to make the theft seem less their fault. One guy I remember lied completely about locking his bike with two Fagh Minis. I proved he lied, and he never posted in that thread again. I'm sure he's not the only one that's lied about their lock security.

The huge difference between having good locks or not, and having a good locking strategy or not, is all about the reduction of the RISK of having a bike stolen. So yes. It does help. It's like saying that leaving the door of your home open or leaving it locked, provide the same possibilities for theft. It doesn't.