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Bike Lock Climbs 10 Feet Up to Deter Would-Be Crooks

By Alastair Plumb

Just because you've locked your bike to a streetlight doesn't mean it's safe. All that's required is a man with a big enough pair of industrial pliers, and it's goodbye bike, hello bus home. 

The solution?  Lock your bike up 10 feet high. How? We'll show you how.

The mid-air solution comes courtesy of German company Conrad, which has devised a contraption that clamps around lampposts and crawls its way up to the unreachable height -- making it inaccessible unless, of course, you have the remote control. 

 

So what you do is pin your bike on the hookymajig, and up it goes, chugging skyward. It's only a prototype, but it's bound to have plenty of Internet oddballs ordering a dozen or two. 

Check out how they did it, why they did it and the contraption in action below.

Posted from http://www.asylum.com/2010/12/01/bike-lock-climbs-10-foot-up-lamp-post-to-deter-would-be-crooks/

 

Bike thief foiled, 2,865 stolen cycles recovered

By Tom Radler

As David Cameron so recently taught us, having your bike stolen can be a heartbreaking, soul-crushing experience.

The clouds of lost-bike-depression may be lifting this week, however, now that  one of history's most prolific bicycle thieves has been apprehended. Canadian Igor Kenk was arrested last month, and police have since recovered 2,865 illegally obtained bikes.

In a nice twist, far more people have come to claim their bikes than there are bikes to claim -- some 15,000 people have come looking for their lost two-wheelers, but only 500 have been found.

Police nabbed Kenk, the owner of a Toronto bicycle shop, after noticing a sharp spike in bike thefts in June. When a sting operation led to Kenk's store, it's reported that the building was crammed with so many hot cycles that some had to be removed through the windows.

Question Raised: Have you ever had your cycle snatched?

Posted from http://www.asylum.co.uk/2008/08/27/bike-thief-foiled-2-865-stolen-cycles-recovered/#ixzz17A1F1mnT