Steal ability factor

Awww come on.. just a little more???

I'm building one with a 40 rear 32 front (the original set up of the frame when new), both deep v rims non-machined but anodised. Was told it'd be ok to run a brake on the front. Will that ruin it and should I get a machined 32 for the front instead. They're in bright silver finish

Balki, you got a white Madison, recently covered in inner tubes? I see such a bike occasionally locked up to the stairs in the hallway of my building

Yeah, thats mine. Spend a bit of time in your building!!! Also, the dude in the kebab shop across the road does the best lamb Koftes I have found.

Also, there are a couple of lovely old town bikes living in there... they yours by any chance?

The dark green one with the basket is mine. The dark blue one is my neighbour's. My GF has a blue dutch bike, but that lives inside the flat

today van damage and i were theorizing that maybe a lady's frame is a good thing to have because it's harder to sell on the street, therefore less attractive to thieving jerks. but i still think they'll steal any bike they can.

How many step-thru pashley-style bike that has been stolen easily? in the Central there's over a dozen of them locked up for weeks without getting stolen.

in the Central there's over a dozen of them locked up for weeks without getting stolen.

Half of wish are bought by bored housewives who take them out and realise they'd rather get driven around in a taxi and just stay there to rot.

On another note, I was walking around London Brdige and after seeing a nice Condor followed by a Unipack, I saw another SS with a "please unlock my bike" sign on it. It was jost a bare sheet of a4 so clearly not intended to be re-used. Was that an attempt at reverse psychology? Does anyone think that would work or just entice thiefs to have a go and potentially get frustrated and vandalise your bike?

I use as my hack bike (not fixed) a bike of a brand that isn't sold in this country at all. The key to its lack of stealability, besides being quite deliberately run down, is that it is easy to describe. There are lots of distinctive bikes that are still difficult to describe and I think distinctiveness by itself doesn't necessarily mean that it'll be less attractive to a thief.