this is really good this is great this is awful like I'll be riding a bike
something's in another town and they go oh you're the guy from the internet I
know you there may be bed bugs underneath that cover see collar that
would be over here that was taken this is your third and final warning we have
the three-strikes rule here
this is where I work this bicycle habitat I've been a bike mechanic here
since 1978 and still fun after all these years run to new problems and new
adventures every day you never know what you're gonna see well today I'm gonna
lock up a bicycle properly because always I grade how you lock up your
bicycle but maybe if I show you how to do it right first you'll have a better
clue about how this is done first thing I'm gonna do is make sure the pole that
I'm locking my bicycle to is in the ground because a lot of these poles are
loose or are having a single bolt at the bottom that could be undone by any
any thief the city has put in a lot of bike racks within the last couple years
and I recommend you lock to those but make sure they're in the ground also
anything that you really want to come back to you should take off your bicycle
like if you have an attachment to your water bottle take your water bottle off
the bicycle I have chained down the seat so that cannot be stolen so easily I
invented this in the early 80s in 1980 when you're locking up a bike the most
valuable items are the frame the rear wheel and the front wheel is a cool
you lock it's a square you lock it is extremely strong and quite expensive so
they come in like so and look at that I got the rear wheel and the frame I take
my auxiliary cable go like so and you go like so and look at that my front wheel
is now cable locked also my front wheel has a special anti theft device on it
it's not a regular Allen wrench it's a pentagon sized bolt here sometimes
thieves can get money for handlebar assemblies so what I've done here I
epoxy the ball bearing into the handlebars so that way you cannot loosen
it with an Allen wrench now you have a completely safe properly locked up
bicycle we're gonna walk around now and with the first 10 bikes you see locked
up we're gonna give them a quick grade and we're out of here let's see front
wheels not locked up rear wheels not locked up if somebody was really
energetic you can take this off of the wrench take the headset off and pull the
whole bike away from the pole all that would be left would be the chain around
the pole this bike gets a D minus this bike has had a calamity
the locking job is made after it's been on the ground for a couple of weeks you know they build buildings on top of graveyards sometimes they don't know about it it's too terrible locks it's garbage and garbage front wheels not locked
seat is ignored and well this one here oh we got swirling chain front wheel is locked
decent master lock here rear wheel is locked up seat is locked up and it's got
anti-step skewer on the rear the poles in the ground it has no resale value and
it's locked really well so a thief's not gonna steal it because it's too much work to get no money this bike gets an A plus the combination of quality of bike and the locking of the bike this is the best job I've ever seen
the bike is locked to itself which normally gives this bike an F in locking because
anybody can carry it over their shoulder but with that thing there that's like the
goddess of locking you can't steal a bike with that on there that's illegal and immoral
and you'll like be struck in down by a bolt of lightning as soon as you steal this bike the
Schwinn has the seat locked properly the rear wheel the frame are locked to secure pole yet the front wheel bolt A bolt B and take it off and you got yourself a front wheel it'll work on any
hybrid bicycle I give this bike a seat like the way the seats are secured very cute bikes are bad and the locks are bad so I'll give it the gentlemen's seat like this will be the
great George Bush kind of college now if you steal these bikes you may become rich
because they made me coupon circulation here you know you may be able to get two
pounds of baloney but they're cheap get the vices of baloney what an ordeal if I
were a wheel thief I can have four real wheels this one here that one there that
one there and that one there they're just getting all that it's like a total
disaster here we have our hundred fifty dollar saddle not locked up the back
wheel not locked up I give this bike a solid deep we're returning to my bike it
looks there I've been joined I've been joined by a bicycle and a whole mess of
garbage welcome to New York always locked in the frame his seat is insecure his
wheels me stolen there's a D-minus he was hoping my good locking job would
camouflage his bad locking job and he's hoping to hide behind the garbage I feel
good creating good bike karma by showing people how to lock their bikes
properly and saving some people some money and aggravation and this is your
third and final warning so learn at this time don't get your stuff stolen I
never thought when I was drawing up a I would see a bike lane be I would see a
bike lane this wide see that they would ever take away a lane of parked cars to
make a bike lane and be they ever see a bike lane the color of kermit the frog
no way this is great
