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Personally I use a chain instead of a u-lock, and just throw it into the milk crate wired to the back along with my bag/groceries/whatever. The hassle is pretty
by egypturnash 5y ago
Personally I use a chain instead of a u-lock, and just throw it into the milk crate wired to the back along with my bag/groceries/whatever. The hassle is pretty much zero and the weight's negligible. And it's a ton easier to chain my bike up somewhere than it is to try and get a u-lock around something.
If you've got one of those little tiny racks the bike stores love to put on the back wheel, I highly recommend you find a milk crate and lash it on there with some wire. It will change your cycling life to no longer have to bungee everything tightly to that crappy little rack. Put your lock in there along with a bungee net to help secure a pile of groceries.
- jackvalentine 5y agoI think you’ve misunderstood what that rack for - it’s for attaching bags/boxes to like you recommend!
- sixstringtheory 5y agoA packed solid pannier on each side and now you’ve got a wider platform on which to stack a cooler, or maybe a tent and some firewood…
- jackvalentine 5y agoBeautiful.
- egypturnash 5y agoNobody at a bike shop ever suggested that to me over multiple decades, oddly enough. Now that I finally figured it out I have a milk crate wired onto the thing, as well as several carabiners hanging off of it that I use to hang my bag on one side when the crate's full of groceries.
- wolverine876 5y agoI've wanted a light-weight, maybe even plastic, but very real-looking chain. As others have pointed out, the goal is to deter thieves not to stop them - with the right tools, all locking mechanisms are easily defeated. But where do you get a milk crate?
- jackvalentine 5y ago> But where do you get a milk crate? You steal it from the back of a store.
- yourusername 5y agoThere's levels of deterrence. A lot of thieves will cary bolt cutters that can crop unhardened steel chains easily. I lock my bikes with hardened steel chains but i have multiple marks on my chain where someone tried to crop the chain. If it was regular steel (or worse, plastic) they would have gotten the bike. If someone really really wants your bike they'll cut through any chain or u lock with a angle grinder but there's a real difference between a Abus chain with 10mm shackles and a $5 chain.
- egypturnash 5y agoKeep your eyes open. One will come to you. They are scattered throughout the fabric of the city; you simply have not been looking for them.
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