Security chains

Risking being called a Pikie, ALDI are doing Draper FOAD security chains
suitable for a bike for under £8 this week.

 

It's 10mm link 1.2 meters long sheathed in plastic, normally retailing
at about £30+? without out lock.

Any better?

 

Depends on what it is.

I'd trust a piece of iron pipe to keep my garage door shut, and you can get
that for £0.

 

Depends for the large part on how convincing it looks, ITF. Yer
average scroat may well be put off from having a go at a bike that
appears to be shackled to the Earth's core by a big old lump of FOAD
chain - and just go to the next one that is free to lift and heave
into a van.

That's all most security measures are, let's face it. A means of
making thieves go elsewhere - for if they really want it, they'll
fucking have it, no matter what obstacles you put in their way.

 

Get a dozen. Any thieving git will take one look and go off to find
something less time consuming to nick.

 

You really are a popular guy.
What do you do to get so much antagonism from the local scroats?

 

Perhaps someone was egging them on?

 

ALDI? I can bet that there isn't one in Reading, or I'd have a couple
myself... :-(
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Bike manufactures shave weight everywhere... only to then have users go and
stick 40kg of chain on it

 

<fx: Nods>

That's the reason I have stoplocks on both my cages. I mean it'd take
20 seconds to snap the steering wheel to get it out, but it's still
20s longer than popping next door and nicking one without.

Not had a cage nicked yet.... [1]

Cheers.

Paul.

[1] Not that anyone would want to having seen my 'stable' )) [2]
[2] But it stops the Friday/Saturday night pissheads who can't afford
a taxi home.

 

A bit like this:

Two guys on safari get lost and find themselves confronting a pride of
lions and not a gun between them.
One guy sits down and starts to put a pair of running shoes on (he just
happened to have in his back pack)
The other guy laughs at him.
"You don't for one minute think you're going to out run those lions do
you?"
"No" say the guy "Just as long as I can run faster than you!"

 

That's why the Oxford Monster stays in the garage and if I go out, I try to
park where I can keep an eye on the bike.

 

Nothing like a bit of vintage comedy to liven up a Friday afternoon.

 

They read his postings?

 

AKA Mischief Night. It is widespread, certainly across the North -
and of course, in the States.

Here:
http://www.pickering.uk.net/news/news_vault/jul_dec_2003/police_presence.shtml

More here:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=mischief+night&spell=1

 

FFS Don't start that again!

 

Indeed, it's no yolk.

 

Oh smashing. Here we go again.

 

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Fucking hell.

I heard the term "mischief night" for the first time on the evening news
last week when some scrotes lobbed a lit firework at an unmarked police
car.

Is it one of those made-up things, y'know, like a "Hallmark Holiday"?

If so, could we then have "Kicking-seven-shades-of-shit-out-of-toerags
night"?
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