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Home contents policy usually cover theft outside the home up to 1–2k and you can get a rider if it’s too low. This usually include bicycles of any kind. As for
by ornornor 4y ago
Home contents policy usually cover theft outside the home up to 1–2k and you can get a rider if it’s too low. This usually include bicycles of any kind.
As for theft, there is little to no enforcement so it’s easy money for thieves.
However, there are things you can do to ensure the bicycle next to yours is stolen rather than yours. Look up the Sheldon brown locking technique which secured the frame and back wheel (the most expensive of the two) with a single ulock. There are also anti theft bolts that cost 20–30$/€/£ and will secure your saddle and quick release wheels. I use a kryptonite lock and thread the cable through the paniers handles so it’s annoying to steal as well. The battery has a key lock and I have an airtag in the bicycle. I remove the lights when parking and try to park in well lit busy areas or in underground parkings.
I was riding a regular bicycle in Canada for years, never got it stolen. Only once I made the mistake to park at Yonge and Dundas in Toronto late at night and some lowlife scum stole my airzound horn because it’s the only thing I hadn’t bolted down and it was the only bike on the rack… it’s worth 20$ but they took the time to unscrew it and steal it. But otherwise, nothing stolen because any other bicycle around was less hassle to steal parts or whole than mine and thus not worth the risk/time.
- pjmlp 4y agoIn Germany you would get what I call revenge robbery, bikes that are locked good enough that can't be stolen, just get destroyed as much as they can. Wheels are bend, break cables cut, tires cutted away, chaain broken, and so forth.
- ornornor 4y agoNice. Takes a special kind of asshole.
- specialist 4y agoIs there a term for repeat robbery? Thief steals something valuable. Then wait for the replacement. Steals replacement too. This has happened to a few of my friends (who have expensive hobbies). Very demoralizing.
- pjmlp 4y agoThis is why many people just stop caring about bikes and go shopping into street bazaars, no longer caring about where they came from.