• Objects in Space@infosec.pub
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    How do I stop someone from stealing it? I’m for it but I live in suburbia and the stores don’t have bike racks for anything other than a parking lot. It’s not a “bad” area but it has people. A $500 bike is one thing but a $1500 bike is another.

    I don’t think there is any secure bike parking as mentioned in the article and I’m not talking daily commute to work. If anyone has any tips I’m open to ideas.

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      You can get a $1500 electric bike? The only ones I’ve seen at the bike shop all start around $5000. I can get a car for $5000.

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        You can get e-bikes for under 2k but they have some definite drawbacks. I wonder if the ones in the bike shop are all super high end models or mountain bikes. Even very nice e-bikes are around 3k, if they’re designed for city use. Check out this list here https://bikexchange.com/best-electric-city-bikes/

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          I bought a cheap 500w electric mountain bike for $600, beat the shit out of it in the mountains, and it still runs fine. You definitely don’t need to drop a couple grand just to commute around town.

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        You can get a new bike for $5000. You can’t get a new car for $5000 (unless you live in China). You can get a car for $5000 of course, but it won’t be a nice new car.

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      I’ve kept a chain around both of my scooters’ stems for the years I’ve been riding each of them and have not had a problem yet. Two things to note: I’m not in NYC and I keep it racked in high visibility areas in daylight. Honestly with the price of bikes a 1200 scooter with a thick chain isn’t worth the trouble me thinks.

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        Yea but like the other guy said, there’s nothing to chain it to. I also live in suburbia and have been looking at an e-bike for groceries and other short errands but there are no bike racks at the stores for me to rack and chain it. Best thing I can do is chain it to a signpost I guess

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          Rolling it through the store until they install bike racks is a great passive aggressive approach.

          One place I lived was close to a semi-suburan mall. Despite being on a major intra-city bike lane, there was a single bike rack tucked in the delivery area.

          I also learned from my new neighbor that you can just install bike racks wherever you want. He just buys the pole like ones and installs them wherever he wants parking.

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            He just buys the pole like ones and installs them wherever he wants parking.

            Fucking genius. I 100% believe it would work and that nobody would ever even question it as long as you threw on a high vis vest while installing them

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              He doesn’t even high vis. Shows up on his bike, slaps in the tapcons, then locks his bike and goes for a shop.

              I’ve only seen one of his poles get removed, but it was replaced with an official city one.

              My city also lets you call and request one anyway, he just doesn’t like waiting. Edit: request are actually handled by the burroughs and differ slightly.