Important Omission on Folding Bikes - Page 11 - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

12-17-2004, 09:32 AM

Steven M. Scharf wrote:
[snip]
>
> I'm probably going to get the removeable pedals for my Dahon Speed TR,
> but mainly because I want pedals that can use toe clips & straps.
>

Or, indeed, SPD fittings if you are brave enough to take a hacksaw to
the removable pedals - see
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Peter
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12-17-2004, 10:03 AM

Sometime last year I acquired the Master (?) "handcuff" lock. Would
drive towards downtown Detroit, park on the street for free, unload my
Hon (purchased in 1985 before the office supply mfgr filed suit and
made them change the name; "you're confusing the marketplace for our
file cabinets with your little folding bikes!"), ride to work, lock it
to a parking meter with the cuffs.

That all ended when I went to a medical appointment right across the
street from a much-heralded new performance center. Left bike in my
van, returned to find the window smashed, bike and handcuff lock
stolen. (They found the spare keys, but didn;t take them, What good is
a lock without keys? Thieves are stupid, as others have noted.)

No complaints about the handcuff lock. No one ever messed with my bike
and it was there every day. The one day I brought my Montague folding
bike, it got stripped before lunchtime.
--Karen M.
now a resident of Grand Rapids

12-17-2004, 10:03 AM

Sometime last year I acquired the Master (?) "handcuff" lock. Would
drive towards downtown Detroit, park on the street for free, unload my
Hon (purchased in 1985 before the office supply mfgr filed suit and
made them change the name; "you're confusing the marketplace for our
file cabinets with your little folding bikes!"), ride to work, lock it
to a parking meter with the cuffs.

That all ended when I went to a medical appointment right across the
street from a much-heralded new performance center. Left bike in my
van, returned to find the window smashed, bike and handcuff lock
stolen. (They found the spare keys, but didn;t take them, What good is
a lock without keys? Thieves are stupid, as others have noted.)

No complaints about the handcuff lock. No one ever messed with my bike
and it was there every day. The one day I brought my Montague folding
bike, it got stripped before lunchtime.
--Karen M.
now a resident of Grand Rapids

12-17-2004, 10:03 AM

Sometime last year I acquired the Master (?) "handcuff" lock. Would
drive towards downtown Detroit, park on the street for free, unload my
Hon (purchased in 1985 before the office supply mfgr filed suit and
made them change the name; "you're confusing the marketplace for our
file cabinets with your little folding bikes!"), ride to work, lock it
to a parking meter with the cuffs.

That all ended when I went to a medical appointment right across the
street from a much-heralded new performance center. Left bike in my
van, returned to find the window smashed, bike and handcuff lock
stolen. (They found the spare keys, but didn;t take them, What good is
a lock without keys? Thieves are stupid, as others have noted.)

No complaints about the handcuff lock. No one ever messed with my bike
and it was there every day. The one day I brought my Montague folding
bike, it got stripped before lunchtime.
--Karen M.
now a resident of Grand Rapids

12-17-2004, 10:03 AM

Sometime last year I acquired the Master (?) "handcuff" lock. Would
drive towards downtown Detroit, park on the street for free, unload my
Hon (purchased in 1985 before the office supply mfgr filed suit and
made them change the name; "you're confusing the marketplace for our
file cabinets with your little folding bikes!"), ride to work, lock it
to a parking meter with the cuffs.

That all ended when I went to a medical appointment right across the
street from a much-heralded new performance center. Left bike in my
van, returned to find the window smashed, bike and handcuff lock
stolen. (They found the spare keys, but didn;t take them, What good is
a lock without keys? Thieves are stupid, as others have noted.)

No complaints about the handcuff lock. No one ever messed with my bike
and it was there every day. The one day I brought my Montague folding
bike, it got stripped before lunchtime.
--Karen M.
now a resident of Grand Rapids

12-18-2004, 12:17 PM

Peter Amey wrote:

> Or, indeed, SPD fittings if you are brave enough to take a hacksaw to
> the removable pedals - see
> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

I'm a retrogrouch, so this won't be necessary.

12-18-2004, 12:17 PM

Peter Amey wrote:

> Or, indeed, SPD fittings if you are brave enough to take a hacksaw to
> the removable pedals - see
> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

I'm a retrogrouch, so this won't be necessary.

12-18-2004, 12:17 PM

Peter Amey wrote:

> Or, indeed, SPD fittings if you are brave enough to take a hacksaw to
> the removable pedals - see
> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

I'm a retrogrouch, so this won't be necessary.

12-18-2004, 12:17 PM

Peter Amey wrote:

> Or, indeed, SPD fittings if you are brave enough to take a hacksaw to
> the removable pedals - see
> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

I'm a retrogrouch, so this won't be necessary.

12-20-2004, 10:28 AM

In message <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ].uk>, Ian Jelf
<[Only registered and activated users can see links. ].uk> writes

>(I had a nice chat with my optician about it yesterday, though. He
>and the receptionist were fascinated!)

My dentist's receptionists don't mind when I bring my Brompton in with
me and leave it in the waiting room, where there is lots of space for
it. The swimming pool reception desk has room only for a couple of
chairs behind it and there's not much space elsewhere, though I have
occasionally seen ordinary bikes parked in corners there.

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