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respect for cycling commuter at work...
When I've had an inquisitive tyke interested in messing with my bike,
Good post Claire. |
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respect for cycling commuter at work...
"Tom Keats" wrote in message
... But my problem is, it always happens to me when I'm not there; I just discover the aftermath later, when I return to my parked bike. That's nothing new, though. Everything always happens when I'm not looking. Life is full of surprises. Perhaps it is the way you are parking your bike. At every university I have attended, bicycle parking was at a premium. I learned the hard way that parking in a manner that took up more than one space always resulted in a bike that had received a serious fiddling. The most common bad parking practice among hoop racks is straddling the bike over the center pole so that it fills the space between the hoops, making it darn difficult to reach the locks for those hoop users. I've seen bikes with every quick-release part loose, moved, or turned around backwards (I'm glad they didn't flat my tires when they did it to me). Once I started parking with the rear wheel in the rack, taking up just one space, my problems disappeared. -Buck |
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respect for cycling commuter at work...
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"Buck" j u n k m a i l @ g a l a x y c o r p . c o m writes: Perhaps it is the way you are parking your bike. Maybe. Whenever I've found my bike has been fiddled-with, it's been locked to a signpost, streetlamp or some other item, because of a lack of nearby bike racks. At every university I have attended, bicycle parking was at a premium. I learned the hard way that parking in a manner that took up more than one space always resulted in a bike that had received a serious fiddling. grin Bike racks around here are generally rarely occupied. If I'm the first one there (as is typically the case), I'll lock it to the far side of the rack, preferably onto the thickest available part of the rack. Often that means outboard of the rack, which leaves the rest of the rack and lots of room for subsequent bikes. I tend to automatically default to LIFO wrt parking in racks, although I'm not really sure if it should be LIFO or FIFO. LIFO just "feels more right" to me. Another thing I have to deal with is a bunch of sticky-outy stuff on my fork -- old style canti brake arms, and headlight. As everybody knows by now, I've got the widest handlebar in the world. So if a bike rack is occupied, I'll often shine it on and resort to using a nearby parking meter or some other thing, even if there's still a space in the rack. I generally don't subscribe to the "if it don't fit, force it" school of thought. And I hate getting handlebars entangled. cheers, Tom -- -- Powered by FreeBSD Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca |
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