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These kind of bike stands should be retired anyway because they offer little protection. It's trivial to take a wheel off the bike, don't even need tools becaus
by skocznymroczny 5y ago
These kind of bike stands should be retired anyway because they offer little protection. It's trivial to take a wheel off the bike, don't even need tools because most bikes use quick release levers.
- alufers 5y agoThat's why you never attach the chain to the wheel, but to the triangle made from the frame.
- fjfaase 5y agoHere in the Netherlands only bikes that are used for leisure 'racing' have quick release levers. But these have no locks at all, because you only use them on biking trips, not to go into the city, go to work, school, or visit some friends. I have never owned a bike with quick release levers and I have been riding a bike more than fifthy years.
- mft_ 5y agoI agree about its design, but it's not necessarily designed to lock the bike to. It's pretty standard in some European countries to simply immobilise the bike by locking its rear wheel to the frame (some bikes come with a simple integral lock for this purpose). This absolutely wouldn't prevent many modes of theft - but in some places, bike theft isn't such a major industry as it seems to be (anecdotally) in some cities (and in the US).