Thread started by 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



bentstrider
07.12.09 - 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.



Gav
07.12.09 - 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!!!



HappyLand
07.12.09 - 8:03 am

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hahahaha. you're awesome.



Frozen Fingersss
responding to a comment by HappyLand
07.12.09 - 8:18 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.



trickmilla
07.12.09 - 8:52 am

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Get two Kryptonite Evolution locks. They're perfecto. double trouble.



Graham
07.12.09 - 10:54 am

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