Visitor bike security...

Posted on Fri 23rd, September 2011

• #1

DFP

Hi,

thinking of a visit to oxford with a bike and was wondering how well I might have to secure it?

Is it the sort of place that a cable lock is enough?
• #2

deleted

No.
Oxford has shit tonnes of bike crime.
• #3

fatoldbloke

Bring your shit bike or bring serious locks, two types. +1 to eybrows, about 3000 bikes went walkies in Oxford last year. :-(
• #4

fatoldbloke

Hi,

thinking of a visit to oxford with a bike and was wondering how well I might have to secure it?

Is it the sort of place that a cable lock is enough?

Well if your coming up to Oxbeers on the Thursday, you can bring your bike into the pub ;-)
• #5

possession

Don't even think of using extender cables either. If you have quick release it's already gone (I've had two wheels pinched in broad daylight on busy streets in full view of cctv when I've gone out with only one lock).
• #6

fatoldbloke

^ this. who would have thought sleepy Oxfordinghamshire would be so full of thieving fuck wits
• #7

sas

Just in case you haven't already seen it:
http://www.cherwell.org/features/2010/06/03/let-s-all-steal-a-bike
• #8

fatoldbloke

outstanding! where where the plod? wtf.

saw the vid of the guys in NY stealing their own bikes using a cordless angle grinder?!?!!?

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