I don't do it I pass it to the boss man who does it or a better mechanic who can rattle it out pretty quick.
Having sat in a wheel building shop it's impressive how quick they can cut spokes to length and get a wheel built.
Yeah but would a shop cutting spokes, only charge 50p/£1 per spoke and build the wheel up in less than half an hour, I doubt it. Not without making a decent amount out of the build cost and charging £100 or something for half hours work lol. I'd expect someone turning wheels around in half an hour would be using boxed spokes pre-cut and threaded at least, so therefore they'd likely cost more than 50p/£1 each.
Maybe I'm wrong, but that's the way my brain worked it out
Locked up at home in my building's cycle stores. Not the first time and won't be the last.
Are there any locks I can get to reasonable deter? Fortunately the home insurance are contributing so won't be too bad. And now it's time to go bike shopping.
It is sold as secure, and initially the magnetic locks on the doors were inadequate and could be overpowered with a firm kick. There haven't been any incidents in 18 months since the doors were beefed up so I suspect whoever got in had a fob to gain access. So nothing is secure if you have the key! Bike theft is pretty much the most petty, least personal crime going. It's just one of those things and fortunately insurance are covering it.
Just waiting on the settlement but they look to try and supply bikes through
https://www.wheelies.co.uk/ so may not have free choice of what replaces them.
Yeah if lots of people have fob access, or the actual access is not that secure not too much you can do about it. Except maybe request CCTV be installed or something? Even then you'll find someone will 'accidentally' knock the camera out the way a few days prior and nobody will notice/care...
Think you can dispute Wheelies choice/pricing but only if you can confirm what you had is a better/different spec and can prove it with receipts etc. When I got knocked off the insurer I was dealing with (drivers) had a website for me to choose a replacement from (might even have been Wheelies) but as they didn't have the same brand I disputed it wasn't an accurate like for like, also saying I'd upgraded components myself (I had). They where quite happy to cover the price I said as I had receipt for the bike and upgrades and other sites had the same brand/model at the price I had a reciepts for, most of which where a higher price!
But that was an RTC not theft so unsure if insurers would handle it differently. My other half works in Motor insurance and said it was due to 'price bands' that the insurers generally have setup to deal with those sort of things. It was probably a £1k limit for the first price band and everything I was asking for was well within that so they didn't quibble it as not worth their time to do so (no personal injury claim etc). They would just do what they could to get the claim resolved for the least amount of work/time without going over that price band/limit they had set. Until it was done they had an 'open fault' against their policy.
there is no real defence against an angle grinder. If they cant go through the lock they'll go through the frame and sell off your components.
But that could be enough of a deterrant? A thief is generally grabbing a bike they can flog working for cash/cash converter as quick as possible. Not that many are stripping bikes down to sell the components. Certainly not the thieves you are looking to deter with bike locks anyway.
It's like a theft which happened near here, they smashed windows of a shop, took all the display bikes and those from the workshop which where together. Those in parts (my mates) where left. Then they also used spanners from the shop to undo a bike rack outside the shop and took that with at least 1 bike locked to it. Took the rack rather than cutting the locks.
Maybe more than 1 lock could be enough of a deterrant - at least enough that they take someone elses bike instead. You do hear of that about street theft - they're looking for the quickest/cleanest grab, not generally the most expensive bike. When the most expensive looking bike is the quickest/easiest grab then it's a no brainer...
perhaps 5 minutes against your average scumbag though at that point they may need extra batteries and cutting discs.
That could (should!) be enough. Throw another lock on there and you've a thief who'll certainly be thinking twice... "Hmm, two locks, one of which my angle grinder might not get through, I need 2 batteries and 2 cutting discs at least"
