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My bike was stolen last night. It was attached to the stairs bannister railing in my tenement ground floor staircase. Here is a picture. It's a fairly new Charge Grater 3. Perl grey/pink colour. Sufficiently unusual to be noticed. It has a Bikeregister etching number and I recently replaced the handlebar grips with bright fluorescent yellow contour ones.
Thanks
Sorry to hear that... I had been considering whether or not to continue locking mine in the secure rack at work (which is far less convenient than a lot of other racks) now that it is looking a bit less new, but I think that I will continue to do so given your unfortunate news :(
Sorry to hear that @gowgowuk. Edinburgh tenement ironwork is notoriously brittle - take it they broke the upright with a hammer and scarpered as usual?
Infuriating. Bike thieves should be tethered naked on Middle Meadow Walk for a couple of nights.
Well, I'm not sure. I found the chain/lock I used open but apparently undamaged. I guess it is possible that I didn't locked it fully, or that they somehow manage to pick the lock open (probably not the best quality lock?), so, I might be to blame. I'll never know... I couldn't use my U-lock because there's too many bikes laying around in the staircase. Some of them are definitely abandoned. When I get a new bike, I'll definitely try to remove them and secure mine with a U-lock (or 2!) to the railing. Having said that a year or 2 ago, my neighbour's bike was stolen, although attached securely to the railing. They simply sawed off the railing (in full daylight!).
Sorry to hear that.
It's a good idea to lock around the wooden banister of the staircase. It's actually a lot harder and more time consuming to saw through a wooden railing, than to break a brittle cast-iron balluster (the upright metal bit of the railing)
Even if you do securely attach your bike with multiple locks there's no guarantee of safety in the open. A colleague had his entire MTB stripped of everything that would come off the frame.
My commiserations, it's a heartache I've thankfully yet to experience!
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