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How does this compare to the Dutch-bike system where there’s an integrated lock to immobilise the back wheel (terrible tubular lock though, iirc) and one would
by dan-robertson 5y ago
How does this compare to the Dutch-bike system where there’s an integrated lock to immobilise the back wheel (terrible tubular lock though, iirc) and one would then just use a U-lock (or slightly better, a thick but annoyingly heavy chain) to attach the bike to something stationary? Reduces some of the pain of trying to find something the right size to get the U-lock through the frame and wheel. I don’t have a great sense for the prevalence of bike theft in the Netherlands compared to European or American cities however.
- jccalhoun 5y agoI first saw bikes with this when I visited Japan back in the early 2000s and thought it was a pretty neat idea. It certainly doesn't replace locking it to something but it seems like an easy extra to have.