Let me tell you why it failed.
Hey, I'm Hal. I'm the mechanic for Bicycle Habitat.
People come in and give me soft stories how their wheels get stolen, their bikes get stolen, their seats get stolen.
Well, most of the fault is these people because they don't lock the bikes upright.
And we're going to take a little walk around here and critique the bikes that are locked outside in the streets of Manhattan.
Oh, this nice and curing LeMond's mixtape has a rear wheel that anybody can steal in the matter of 10 seconds with a 15mm wrench or a bicycle grip.
Notice the rear wheel is not locked at all.
This is a D minus because it will cost you $120 or so to get a back wheel for this bike.
And the bike isn't worth $120.
Now, hopefully these two people are eating in this restaurant.
But so far, this bike gets an F. You can steal both wheels in a matter of around 8 seconds.
Quickly these wheels, 8 seconds, the bike has no wheels, will cost the person around $220 to replace these wheels.
In fact, you can steal a seat in one second.
This bike gets an F for locking. It fails locking.
Contrary to popular belief, the quieter streets, the thief is more likely to get spooked.
If you take a busy street, the street noise and all the people walking around screen the thief.
And people won't care what he's doing.
Whereas you get a quiet street like this, it's too vacant for the thief to think about what's going on.
So they don't steal bikes on a quiet street like this.
This is locked correctly.
We really have an A here.
Let me tell you why it's an A.
Seat is chained down, number one.
Number two, proper lock.
There's a kryptonite disc lock with a New York chain locked through the rear wheel on the frame to a secure pole.
There's also an auxiliary cable clamping down the front wheel.
This bike is locked totally correctly. This bike gets spooked.
This is what happens when I give you an F.
Because when I give you an F, then the thief comes later and steals the back wheel.
You've got to lock both wheels or else it becomes community property.
And you'd have a bike that looks like this or you have to spend $120 to correct the fact that your bike is going to look like this.
This bike has gotten an F.
This bike was a collector's item at one time.
Now it's collecting rust.
There's also a stem that's about to break in half. That's another story.
Good locking job in the rear.
Bad locking job in the front.
But this front wheel is not that desirable.
So overall we give this a C.
A C?
A C?
Is it going to steal your front wheel eventually?
The back wheel's got like a thing on it.
I know. I'm rating him. He's a TV show.
I know, but it's at least worth talking about B-minus or something.
Okay, I'm going to make him, because the guy's a cool guy.
He gets a B-minus in locking.
He gets a B-minus.
You get that tape over here so you can't steal the wheel.
Tape over here. They're all locked together and the owner is watching.
Therefore you get an A on locking.
Oh, this is sad.
This is dead.
If I had some dirt in the shovel, I would give it a proper burial.
Trigger mortars will be setting in.
What is with these people?
They don't lock the back wheels up at all.
Frame and front tire lock very well.
Proper lock.
Secure pole air.
Record iron. It takes a while to sort through that.
Seat is locked. That's good too.
But the rear wheel makes it no good.
When your most stolen bikes end up, they end up at various restaurants.
What happens is, the junkie who steals bikes,
he trades the bike to his fence for a bag of dope.
The fence calls up a local restaurant who he knows,
says, hey, I got a bike for you. $50.
And all is good, except for the person who lost the bike.
Anybody with a cable cutter or wire cutter could cut this a matter of 15 to 20 seconds.
This lock is pretty bad.
It's an okay auxiliary lock to lock the wheel to the frame,
but to lock the whole bicycle, this bike's out of here.
So I give this locking job D minus.
And the only reason I got that high a grade is that the bike is worth,
the bike is a D minus.
Okay, we got another A.
Let me show you why this bike gets an A.
Frame and front wheel to a lamppost.
I doubt if anybody's ever going to store this lamppost down.
Rear wheel and frame lock to each other.
Seat locked.
This bike gets an A.
This is the proper way of locking your bicycle. Solid A.
You can ride on the sidewalk legally in any borough if you own three dogs
and are riding with them at the same time.
You know the owner.
You know the owner of this bike?
Yeah.
He's a nice guy.
Okay.
And now you're going to critique him.
Notice the clamp.
And a clamp here.
And a clamp here.
And a chain.
And the proper lock.
If you're still anybody with a couple, like less than a minute,
you can't take these wheels off.
There is deterrent.
It's not quick anymore.
Speed.
This bike gets a B.
Locking your bicycle, a lot of times you're just buying time.
And that's important.
If you put enough locks on your bike,
where even if they're not the most secure lock,
it just takes a thief too long.
And I'll give up and go on to the next bike and on this street,
there are many next bikes.
Now here, the rear wheel is a lock, but it will not get stolen
because the thief would have to buy a new tire or two because it's flat.
In fact, here's a nice piece of glass that gave him the flat.
So how are you saying one deterrent for deterring?
One deterrent?
You could let the...
If you have a flat tire, the odds are it probably won't get stolen
because where the thief sells it to, that has to fix it.
The seat can be easily stolen.
It's not locked at all.
The front wheel again, easily stolen.
And the rear wheel, easily stolen.
So this bike will get an F in locking.
What would your grade for this bicycle be?
My grade, as far as locking this bike,
what you've locked up here, I'd give them an A
because no one's ever going to steal this.
But the quality of locking is an F.
But it's like locking if you locked dog manure.
Wherever you use, no one's going to take it.
And same here.
This is just a dog manure in the shape of a bicycle.
I hope you learned something from my little pointing stuff out.
And I hope you learned how to lock your bike, especially.
And you know, you get a good strong pole.
These are locks.
Lock your wheel, lock your seat,
and have a crappy enough bike and you get A.
And alright, on that point, you know, you have a nice day now.
Bye bye now.
