Hello cyclists and commuters,
Guess what happened to me yesterday? I locked my bike at a subway station right where I work because my employer won't let me bring my bike into my floor, and my frame pump and wedge pack with flat tools (tire levers, patches, 2 spare tubes and a wrench) were stolen off my bike! The fact that both the pump and the wedge pack were stolen says to me that it was an intentional theft, as opposed to the wedge pack or pump mysteriously falling off. (This may also happen but unlikely both at the same time.) Can you believe that ****? Who (other than a disrespectful cyclist) is going to want this stuff anyway?
As a bicycle commuter, I carry a trunk rack and bag too, but I carry my flat tools in a separate wedge pack and my pump directly on my frame. This is because when I want to take a leisurely ride (as opposed to a commute) and don't need to carry a trunk bag and rack, I don't have to. Are there any locking metal-box wedge packs on the market out there? I haven't seen any myself. What are other bicycle commuter's strategies for dealing with potential bicycle petty theft if a bicycle has to be locked outside? It's just impossible to lock down everything on a bicycle.
By the way, I didn't know immediately that my wedge pack and pump were missing from my bike this morning on my commute, and I got a flat tire and had to walk 3 miles to my destination because I couldn't change it. I was late to work by an hour and a half. You would think that if it were a fellow cyclist who stole this stuff, he or she would understand why somebody would want this stuff on their bike and therefore would not steal them for themselves. A noncyclist would have no use for this stuff and wouldn't steal them either. It really doesn't make much sense. What bastards.
Guess what happened to me yesterday? I locked my bike at a subway station right where I work because my employer won't let me bring my bike into my floor, and my frame pump and wedge pack with flat tools (tire levers, patches, 2 spare tubes and a wrench) were stolen off my bike! The fact that both the pump and the wedge pack were stolen says to me that it was an intentional theft, as opposed to the wedge pack or pump mysteriously falling off. (This may also happen but unlikely both at the same time.) Can you believe that ****? Who (other than a disrespectful cyclist) is going to want this stuff anyway?
As a bicycle commuter, I carry a trunk rack and bag too, but I carry my flat tools in a separate wedge pack and my pump directly on my frame. This is because when I want to take a leisurely ride (as opposed to a commute) and don't need to carry a trunk bag and rack, I don't have to. Are there any locking metal-box wedge packs on the market out there? I haven't seen any myself. What are other bicycle commuter's strategies for dealing with potential bicycle petty theft if a bicycle has to be locked outside? It's just impossible to lock down everything on a bicycle.
By the way, I didn't know immediately that my wedge pack and pump were missing from my bike this morning on my commute, and I got a flat tire and had to walk 3 miles to my destination because I couldn't change it. I was late to work by an hour and a half. You would think that if it were a fellow cyclist who stole this stuff, he or she would understand why somebody would want this stuff on their bike and therefore would not steal them for themselves. A noncyclist would have no use for this stuff and wouldn't steal them either. It really doesn't make much sense. What bastards.
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