"Back to work today, forgot my pass so locked bike outside Cannon Street station.
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Here is the simple rule of thumb for a lock job:
The cost of your bike locks should be at least HALF the value of your bike. If you can't muster that it's not locked up enough.
Of course there are various tamper-proof screws and hardware that are mandatory. If something can be removed with a tool it will be.
I once had my break (I only had the one) stolen.
Both wheels and the frame must be locked. Location is important too.
@futurebird @MarkHoltom depends where you are. Village post office and one strong lock is ample. There's not really any lock big enough in parts of London. I reckon they'd find a way to nick a bike buried in concrete in some boroughs!
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@futurebird @MarkHoltom depends where you are. Village post office and one strong lock is ample. There's not really any lock big enough in parts of London. I reckon they'd find a way to nick a bike buried in concrete in some boroughs!
In NYC Manhattan and downtown Brooklyn are the worst for bike theft. Oddly enough my bike is fine up in the Bronx. But then I lock it up next to the bikes from the delivery guys next to the old people playing cards.
These things are more powerful than any lock.
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NYPD laughs in the face of people who have their bike stolen. I've always said if they wanted to be better liked all they'd need to do is a few stings every year to catch prolific bike thieves but they can't be bothered and so those of us who bike live in the wild wild west.
@futurebird @mjr @MarkHoltom while it's not surprising, I'm still a wee surprised the NYC cops don't prioritize it at all. My understanding is that bike theft often helps fund a lot of other (much more headline grabbing) criminal activity. I can't find any of the articles that I recall having read on it, but I know in the Bay Area that's the case, and that there are major police ops on stolen bikes.
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@futurebird @mjr @MarkHoltom while it's not surprising, I'm still a wee surprised the NYC cops don't prioritize it at all. My understanding is that bike theft often helps fund a lot of other (much more headline grabbing) criminal activity. I can't find any of the articles that I recall having read on it, but I know in the Bay Area that's the case, and that there are major police ops on stolen bikes.
@notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom
This might sound absurdly petty, but for a variety of reasons NYPD dislikes people who ride bikes. They constantly have these absurd little traffic stops for bikes near the bridges that come in to Manhattan from the Bronx and Brooklyn and hold up everyone exiting the bridge looking for someone who ran a red light. Or they give everyone tickets even if you didn’t run a red light.
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@notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom
This might sound absurdly petty, but for a variety of reasons NYPD dislikes people who ride bikes. They constantly have these absurd little traffic stops for bikes near the bridges that come in to Manhattan from the Bronx and Brooklyn and hold up everyone exiting the bridge looking for someone who ran a red light. Or they give everyone tickets even if you didn’t run a red light.
@notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom
If you simply contest it and show up it will be dropped since the won’t pull the camera footage or (as it was in my case) even if they did it wouldn’t show me running the light. But I’ve had two Saturdays wasted over bogus tickets.
I think they just assume everyone on a bike is a “terrorist”
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@notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom
This might sound absurdly petty, but for a variety of reasons NYPD dislikes people who ride bikes. They constantly have these absurd little traffic stops for bikes near the bridges that come in to Manhattan from the Bronx and Brooklyn and hold up everyone exiting the bridge looking for someone who ran a red light. Or they give everyone tickets even if you didn’t run a red light.
@futurebird @notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom Having worked there I can say that often those stops come after cyclists are killed - let’s be real here: mashed into paste - by buses and trucks and cars. There have been many campaigns to save cyclists that start with enforcement. I can understand as a cyclist myself why we think other priorities (like for example making NYMTA bus drivers actually stop at lights) would seem higher but I never once heard the sentiment that NYPD doesn’t like cyclists. It’s not all a plot.
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@futurebird @notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom Having worked there I can say that often those stops come after cyclists are killed - let’s be real here: mashed into paste - by buses and trucks and cars. There have been many campaigns to save cyclists that start with enforcement. I can understand as a cyclist myself why we think other priorities (like for example making NYMTA bus drivers actually stop at lights) would seem higher but I never once heard the sentiment that NYPD doesn’t like cyclists. It’s not all a plot.
@fuzztech @notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom
IDK when I was a messenger I saw another delivery rider get hit by a car. It was bad. Two of us chased the car and got their plates. We were both eyewitnesses to this kid getting maimed and we hung around to talk to the police. They didn’t even write down the plate number I gave them. I gave the number to the kid as the put him in the ambulance. Tried another cop who said “this isn’t a crime”
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@fuzztech @notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom
IDK when I was a messenger I saw another delivery rider get hit by a car. It was bad. Two of us chased the car and got their plates. We were both eyewitnesses to this kid getting maimed and we hung around to talk to the police. They didn’t even write down the plate number I gave them. I gave the number to the kid as the put him in the ambulance. Tried another cop who said “this isn’t a crime”
@futurebird @notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom Yeah there are assholes in every profession. No accounting for incompetence. But I never heard anything even hinting at what you were fearing was unspoken or spoken policy. I likely would’ve. And I did hear lots about trying to reduce cyclist and pedestrian deaths. So {shrug}
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@futurebird @notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom Yeah there are assholes in every profession. No accounting for incompetence. But I never heard anything even hinting at what you were fearing was unspoken or spoken policy. I likely would’ve. And I did hear lots about trying to reduce cyclist and pedestrian deaths. So {shrug}
@fuzztech @notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom
I grew up in a suburb and when I first moved to NYC I found the general ire for NYPD perplexing. The most charitable reading is that they still are acting as if the city hasn’t changed since the 70s — NYPD act as if they are an underfunded city service tasked with policing an impossibly violent and chaotic city.
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@fuzztech @notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom
I grew up in a suburb and when I first moved to NYC I found the general ire for NYPD perplexing. The most charitable reading is that they still are acting as if the city hasn’t changed since the 70s — NYPD act as if they are an underfunded city service tasked with policing an impossibly violent and chaotic city.
@fuzztech @notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom
But in reality they are exceptionally well funded and your average New Yorker is rather docile and grew up watching shows that said cops are heroes.
And one might stay that way were it not for one bad experience after another. I’ve spoken to police some 15 times over 20 years living here and always gone in trying to be helpful — in half of these cases it was frankly scary.
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@fuzztech @notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom
But in reality they are exceptionally well funded and your average New Yorker is rather docile and grew up watching shows that said cops are heroes.
And one might stay that way were it not for one bad experience after another. I’ve spoken to police some 15 times over 20 years living here and always gone in trying to be helpful — in half of these cases it was frankly scary.
@fuzztech @notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom
I would be irrational not to notice a pattern.
And this is kind of a huge problem since it’s really typical. In a city like this they should be more popular— but they aren’t.And part of that is they don’t really see how the city has changed.
