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adengtg wrote: | Yeah, realistically (or daytime at least) a 16mm is pretty much indestructible. there would be no way somebody could cut through one with a cheap handheld grinder and either get caught or run the grinder out of juice first. |
If the London "bike life" -- of which, lets face it, started this whole crime wave epidemic in the first place and thereafter is being copied over several cities by youths who think they can get away with the same thing because, "no helmet, no chase" -- teaches us anything it's that there's no limits to the methods they (thieves) will use to get your keys or your motor when parked up.
Being a hero only goes so far, I wouldn't expect any member of the public to loose a limb attempting to fight off a grinder wielding thug and his mates: when my bike was surrounded, albeit momentarily, by a group of five lads on three peds all anyone around did was look on or go about their day. I, also, did the same.
I'd guesstimate that London videos are emerging of people having a go back simply because they're sick of nothing be done by plod. I guess there's only so many days you can work in a crime ridden city -- as much as London is in this year -- before you break and have enough of the scrotes coming from left right and centre.
Lets not forget, slightly aside from anything this thread is about, that the video showing the thief in the attempted jewellery heist who has de-helmeted after being caught was a fully grown man: anyone that gets too close is suspect to me.
TL:DR - All you're buying as you go up -- 16 mm, 19 mm, 22 mm -- is more time, not invincibility. ____________________ The do it all, T̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶r̶o̶k̶e̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶,̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶i̶g̶ ̶l̶u̶m̶p̶,̶ ̶C̶h̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶N̶o̶o̶d̶l̶e̶ |
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Another interesting factoid from the same report says that "seven out of ten bikes aren’t locked at all" which I find really surprising. From that basis, on the premise that the prime object of any form of security is to encourage thieves to move on to an easier target, you'd expect that using even the most basic cheap lock would be massively better than nothing. But I suppose that's a country-wide statistic, and the percentage of lock-users in BikeLifeLand will be much higher. ____________________ KC100->CB100N->CB250RS--------->DL650AL2->R1200RS->R1250RS |
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Sure I have, resulting in a little light bruising, it wasn't a fast fall.
The probability is that it might end badly.
So far it hasn't.
The probability of inhaling miniscule paper termites from an old book when you open and read them is also quite likely, that's not stopped me either.
The probability of getting cancer from drinking red/white/green/purple wine is, again, quite high.
But look... here we all are.
Just being alive is a risk.
This morning I picked up an old guy who used to ride bikes (Francis Barnett and something else I knew the name of but now can't remember, Douglas maybe ... ) when he was younger. He was somewhere between 80 and 90, I reckon, but if he was older than that, he was very well preserved.
It was so long ago that he remembers riding in places that had roads made out of wooden blocks ( ) instead of tarmac, when I asked him where, he said he remembers Charing Cross Rd being like that, and it was dangerous as fuck* when it got wet, you knew not to even tap the brakes. Imagine splinters instead of gravel, eeeek.
He said he once came off on the wooden block road that used to be Edgware Road and that a bus just spun out of the way in time to miss running him over.
So yeah, something MIGHT happen.
But if it doesn't ... look at all the angst people put themselves through while it didn't. Fuck angst, ain't nobody got time for that.
It could still happen and all your safety-consciousness might be for naught because something completely random might happen instead and quadraspaz you anyway.
Sure, I wear a helmet and gloves and a jacket (usually ) when I ride. I have got some common sense. But ... really ... where or why do any of us draw the line where we do?
*ok he was quite a polite old dude, so he didn't actually say "fuck" at any point. ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 162 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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