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Thieves have been slicing cycle racks in Oxford and presumably hiding the cut under tape so unsuspecting cyclists aren't actually locking their bikes to anything:
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/16585268.warning-as-thieves-slice-headington-cycle-racks/
Worthy of a reminder to people to be extra vigilant.
Arggghhhh the memories of nearly v nearly being stabbed in Headington for mimding my own business eating fish & chips on a bench.
It's got to be at least 20 years since thieves worked out that they could slice parking meters using a scaffold cutter and all the councils welded bars to them. The problem now is cheap cordless angle grinders - I don't see a technical solution 🙁
This came up a few years ago I think (maybe not Oxford).
So are they slicing the straps so your bike falls off later or of bikes left unattended on bike racks? Don't you have a security chain (or 6) on when you leave it?
Don’t you have a security chain (or 6) on when you leave it?
Read the link before you come over as an idiot!
ah I see that now...
resisting the urge the edit the post.....
Thom Yorke once beat me to the only spare bike rack space outside the KA pub in Oxford; I initially thought he was a tramp. I could have gotten his autograph or pleaded with him to reconcile with Ronan Keating, perhaps changing the course of musical history.
Lesson: you really do have to be vigilant around the bike racks of Oxford.