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@BrickMan
Was in york last week and I had to resist the urge to rent a van and fill it with the hundreds of unlocked bikes around the place.
Seriously never seen so many, I guess daan saaf and in daneland they don't bother locking much as it just gets nicked, and then buy again the next week. But in the north, I think its more a case of .... bikes just don't get openly nicked so often.
Where I live I happily leave hack bike outside a shop while I mosey on inside, wouldn't leave a mega bucks bike or any form of MTB (kids don't want racers, not even carbon ones), but cheaper stuff + racers are fine, and if they do go missing, you'll normally know where to look.
Someone had their DH rig nicked from the woods whilst they were building trails, they'd left bike upto 1km away from where they were working (its normal practise round here), and of course on this occasion went missing. Que a massive internet search around the whole area, ebay, gumtree, forums the lot. But nope, 3days later the nearest bike shop guy rang up the guy and it was delivered back. Some wandering dope fiend had picked it up and sold it to the bike shop fella for £20. Bike shop fella compelled to do so otherwise dope fiend without his daily hit was a bit edgy + £20 for a guaranteed high value bike return is a no brainer. Score.
Only losses we have is when manchester/liverpool lot come up and follow people home from trails/ take on local info on where the high value stuff lives as there are pretty regular targeted attacks now on sheds/houses in the summer months.