Locking up, & Helmets
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HANDBONE at 07.12.09 - 1:04 am
so yeah. i started wearing a helmet. having post brain trauma issues from a retarded accident.
anyways, i also started using a snap on front wheel to ulock it to my back wheel. im considering getting a krypto-mini, but would it be big enough to lock onto my helmet (giro atmos) two rims and bici frame ? how do you guys lock up your helmets when you don't take them inside with you ?
i think i may start carrying two locks. what am investment. oh well..
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Unless it's a 5 minute jaunt into Wal-Greens, I always clip my helmet to my fanny-pack and wear it like a sword.
For those quick insertion-exertions, I just loop it around my bars where I could see it from the checkstand
bentstrider07.12.09 - 1:13 am
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you can lock the rear wheel and frame if they are close enough together or that and you don't have deep rims. I can't lock my rear rim and frame on my bikes, but I can get both rims locked together, so I do the Sheldon Brown lock method except I don't rely on a cable lock to secure my front wheel.
Gav07.12.09 - 7:57 am
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I just wear my helmet inside wherever I'm going!
It establishes me as a cool bike chick, helps other cool bike people identify me, and since I never wash my hair, it covers that up too!
Wee!!!
HappyLand07.12.09 - 8:03 am
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it is possible to lock the front wheel using the "sheldon brown method".
you just need to make sure your are at a good pole that will allow you to get the bike real close. it works.
as for the helmet. any strap i can loop into the lock is fine. I often don't bother.
I've had an unsecured helmet just clipped to my bike while it was being ravaged by a gang of pre-pubescent bike thieves.
they just took the helmet off and dropped it on the ground.
a $10 knog was more interesting to them.
I can't imagine somebody stealing or trying to sell a stolen helmet.
they usually stink like sweat and contain the original owners DNA,. plus they make you look like a fucking bike nerd.
haha.
trickmilla07.12.09 - 8:52 am
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Get two Kryptonite Evolution locks. They're perfecto. double trouble.
Graham07.12.09 - 10:54 am
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