Comments on: Kryptonite Bike Racks Installed in Portland, Oregon

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By: bikesgonewild

bikesgonewild — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:28:22 +0000

…three little words…cell phone cameras…

…fairly inconspicuous AND you can not only call your local police department. but you can send the evidence pics to their website…

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By: CJ

CJ — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:23:28 +0000

Quinn & akatsuki,

Quinn, you make a good point. And no, I have not viewed that episode of dateline. I am a geek. I watch a lot of PBS.

akatsuki, I don’t know if I would approach a thief by myself, but I certainly would call the cops and start writing down everything I could about that said thief. If I was with a group of cyclists then I would consider approaching the thief. There are power in numbers!! Ofcourse, I suppose you never know when someone will pull a gun. I may be wrong here, but I would guess the majority of bike thefts are done by young kids and Meth addicts. Meth addicts are sad people that are willing to do anything to get their next fix. But they generally don’t have weapons because they would sell the gun for Meth rather then use it. At least that is what our local police report to us.

Peace out

By: akatsuki

akatsuki — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:46:02 +0000

@CJ. I think you would have to be insane to try and stop someone stealing bikes on the street. Bikes are not so valuable so as to be worth risking your life with someone with very heavy bolt-cutters, other power tools, possibly weapons and low morals. I would just call the cops. That is what they are there for.

By: Fritz

Fritz — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:16:15 +0000

Regarding the way they’re bolted in: If you look closely, you’ll see those nuts are not standard hexagonal nuts. They appear to be a rounded cap that you can’t turn or remove.

By: Fritz

Fritz — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:12:29 +0000

They’ve also been installed in the Chicago ‘burb of Blue Island, Illinois. Good job on the Krypto-look design of those inverted U racks — that’s marketing genius. Good job also, Donna, on your company’s continued sponsorship of pro-cycling events and initiatives.

By: Donna Tocci

Donna Tocci — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:03:01 +0000

Thanks for mentioning this, Tim. We appreciate it.
OX and Patrick – look for those racks in Austin next week – 5 locations with 3 racks at each. – hopefully, they will be in the locations you need them to be.
akatsuki – we’re paying for them and in most cases installing them, too. They are free to the cities.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Donna
Kryptonite

By: Quinn

Quinn — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:57:38 +0000

CJ-

u ever watch that Dateline, where a security expert broke into a car with a cinder block, in broad daylight, and no one did a damn thing! ?

By: CJ

CJ — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:49:25 +0000

Just a question for all of you. Do you think that anyone in your respective cities would stop a bike thief who trying to unbolt the bike rack from the ground? In our town, I think they would. I suppose that in the dead of the night there is no one there to stop such activities, but how many bikes are locked up downtown at 3am in the morning? Maybe way more in a big city. But I find in our little community of 250K that the only bikes that are left downtown locked up overnight are of the POS variety that most criminals would rather just vandilize then try to steal.

peace out

By: Quinn

Quinn — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:42:27 +0000

One more reason for me to move to Portland!

The way the Bolted bike racks are taken care of here is to cover the bolts in an expanding foam caulk, hardened it practically takes a jack hammer to get through it.