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Bike Locks- How to Protect Your Ride
Not the most secure way to lock your bike in Chicago Biking in Chicago, New York, LA, London, etc. means going the extra mile when it comes to securing your bike. Cable locks and cheap U-locks won’t...
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Family Biking Essential – A Bike Carrier
Once Little Ding got his own bike we outgrew our 2-bike car rack. Not such a bad thing since Mr. Ding has never enjoyed long trips with the strap-based bike rack. It’s never caused us any problems ,...
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A Bike Photo-Op You Don’t See Too Often in Chicago
Take a good look at this photo and tell me what you see, or rather, don’t see? First of course, you may notice this interesting bike rack – not sure how I feel about this setup. This is a downtown...
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Stolen Bike Alert and a Reminder That Cable Locks are Useless
Sad news sad news.. my friend Mary reports that her Electra Townie was stolen while parked in front of the Century movie theater at Clark & Diversey last week. She was w/o her usual lock so she and...
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A New Bike Lock for My Omafiets
When I bought my new bike I planned on getting a new lock too – wanted to keep my U-lock for my mountain bike. I did a little research and wrote about my findings in this post. Since I knew the Dutch...
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Bike Locks: Any Thoughts on Those “Hand-cuff” Style Bike Locks?
I saw a bike locked up with one of these ‘Bike-Cuff” hand-cuff-style locks on my way to work the other day. I see them around once in a while. A few years ago I thought about investing in one, but I...
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Bad News: Dutch Bike Thefts in Chicago! Good News: Julie’s Bike is Recovered
Vince's Dutch bike that was stolen (photo courtesy of Vince via the chainlink.org) Gloomy gloomy news was to be found on Twitter yesterday afternoon, when I heard that Vince, the manger of The Dutch...
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Stolen Bike Alert: Upright Bikes Get More Popular & Now Get Stolen
I’m seeing more and more Dutch bikes and Dutch-style bikes downtown during my daily commute, more mixtes, basically more non-hybrid or road bikes which makes me smile as I think that more people...
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Don’t Rely on a Cable Lock For Your Bike
Andrew brought this poor sad bike lock home for a photo op the other day. This cut cable-lock sans bike, was sitting near an outdoor bike rack up in the Lakeview neighborhood where he works. I’ve...
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It’s Spring aka Bike Thief Time: Lock Up Your Bike!
U-lock, cable lock and helmet, neatly stored in the basket of a Gary Fisher Simple City bike. Here in Chicago the weather has finally made the turn towards spring (and Summer!) which means more and...
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