Seattle vigilante reuniting stolen bikes with their owners

Re:Seattle vigilante reuniting stolen bikes with their owners by galdosdi on Sunday April 24, 2016 @09:11PM (#11562073)

> You're not going to ride a shitty bike if you're riding that often.

Yes and no. If you ride that much, you won't be riding a shitty bike. However, it is NOT the case that if you ride that much, riding a "non-shitty" bike means you ride an expensive bike. Bike manufacturers would love for you to think that you need to pay a lot to get a decent bike, but it isn't true. You can easily spend $50 to $300, trick out the components for another $50 to $200, and have a _fantastic_ ride that can beat the pants off of most bikes out in the wild, including bikes that cost thousands. And, the more you ride and the longer you've been riding, the more likely doing this comes easily.

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Re:Seattle vigilante reuniting stolen bikes with their owners by nmrm2 on Monday April 25, 2016 @07:15PM (#11568171)

Sure.

But the people with the skill-set and interest in doing that are going to do so anyways; I don't see how anti-theft tech would convince that type of person to shell out an extra few hundred for a bike. They would just buy something and install it themselves.

I just don't see the market for integrated anti-theft. Seems more like a custom component type of thing.

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Re:Seattle vigilante reuniting stolen bikes with their owners by galdosdi on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @02:58PM (#11574592)

I'd go further than that -- riding a cheap bike with a heavy U lock makes theft so rare in most places that it's not worth wasting any further time/money on the problem.

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