Thanks everyone; very informative. I even dusted off the 'old' bike for
my ride to work today.
And thanks for the mention of insurance --- what insurance? 🙂
In addition to a stronger lock, I think that an indoors and out of sight
location will have to be found; my place of employment is a university
(institute of technology), so I should be able to find somewhere.
There are bike stands in open view at the front of the building. I park
my bike at the back door, in a semi-covered place designated as a
smoking area. So there are people about most of the time. Unlike the
main bike stands, quite a small proportion of the college population
would ever pass by. However, as I said, it will take only one thief to
spot the value of my bike. Am I right in assuming that bike thieves are
unlikely to read u.r.c.?
My current location is reasonably free of theft and quite easy going
about security in an almost olde worlde way and so I have become rather
relaxed compared to when I lived in large cities. I have a student from
a faraway country and he reckons that some day a few of his compatriots
will arrive and the place will be stripped as if by locusts. Not that we
actually need foreigners to teach us about thieving.
There was a story told about someone in our college who left a jacket on
the back of a canteen chair; it was assumed lost along with the wallet
and other pocket contents. However, the owner went for lunch a week
later, to the same table, and there was the jacket and contents ---
untouched.
Best regards,
Jon C.
