The concept is simple, but brilliant. Instead of external lock that can be cut without damaging the bike, Leinonen’s lock is integrated into the seat stays, an integral portion of the frame that connects the rear forks to the main tube that holds up the seat.
To steal the StayLocked bike, a thief would have to cut these seat stays. It wouldn’t take too him long to figure out he stole the wrong bike. As soon as he hopped on the bike, it would buckle under his weight and he would go crashing to the ground. [Wired]
wsDK_II
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Sam
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Allegro
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 12:08 PMWow…
Motorists in this country…
James
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 12:29 PMI’m a cyclist. I also pay rego. Not sure what people are thinking when they use that argument.
Jp
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 1:13 PMThey’re obviously not (thinking).
Sad to say, that’s rather prevalent amongst today’s society.
wsDK_II
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 1:29 PMi have a car, and a motorbike. I pay for both with rego. If i ride a bike i dont pay. How is that fair for everyone?
more importantly then that, if i go through a red light on either veichle, i will get caught by the camera and fined. If i do the same on a bike i dont get caught.
i always see at least 2 bike riders each day going through red lights, and often the number is more like 15-20 (i work in the city so often see them).
see my point?
Graeme
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 2:27 PMNot paying rego for a bike makes sense. Rego is roughly related to the amount of facilities and repairs required for each vehicle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road#Maintenance). A bike creates negligible damage (thousandths of that compared to a car).
When I cycle, I’m not using the car that I’ve paid rego for, so you could say I’m throwing away the rego money and not creating the damage I’m entitled to!
As for cyclists running red lights, Darwin will probably get them eventually. Like most things, it’s the numpties that are highly visible and give the rest of the population a bad name. Cars run red lights, but not all car drivers are idiots; bikes run red lights but not all cyclists are idiots. In the end, if a cyclist runs a red light and gets hit, he’s more likely to end up dead than a car driver who gets hit. I only feel concern for the people coming the other way, not the red light runner.
Josh
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 2:45 PM+1
I couldn’t have put this better myself.
Martin
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 1:23 PMRego doesnt pay for roads, taxes do. Only taxpayers should be allowed to use roads for driving or cycling. No freeloading children or pensioners. Or smelly students for that matter.
Jason
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 2:27 PMTo be honest, I’m quite happy to pay a rego to ride my bike on the road.
However, I would request that for it to be fair, it is set to a rate based on my portion of road wear and tear, portion of kilometers traveled, portion of space taken, portion of pollution caused etc.
You wouldn’t want me getting something for free now.
I figure that’ll be about $1.00 for 3 years thanks.
See my point?
Scoon
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 6:30 PMAs a car driver, I wouldn’t care how much cyclists paid, as long as they had licence plates and were accountable for their actions like the rest of us.
Hell, make it 50c per year. Just make sure they get ticketed every single time they run a red light/ride up on the footpath to take a shortcut/nearly run over pedestrians/ride on the wrong side of the road to take a shortcut/lane split etc etc
Graeme
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 6:47 PMIt costs $20-30 for every licence/registration/whatever to be collected by the government (state or otherwise). So for it to be proportional to damage produced by cyclists it would be uneconomical to collect.
Paul
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 2:34 PMGod forbid some people should choose to travel in a way that allows them to keep fit and do the environment a favour at the same time.
I can’t believe we’ve reached a point where even bloody cyclists are being singled out as somehow being jerks.
D
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 11:57 AM^^ Yeah. Or probably just some regular nice person wonder why people hate so much.
Drew
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 12:02 PMJust cut the blocky thing that goes around the pole and the bike is fine.
light487
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 1:05 PMGuess it depends on the country where the bike is going to be stolen.. not all bikes are stolen to be used as a bike and/or resold as a bike. Some bikes are stolen simply for the recyclable material. :)
Jason
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 1:51 PM“It wouldn’t take too him long to figure out he stole the wrong bike”
*sigh*
Mike
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 4:58 PMI’m a green kinda person, so I think I’ll haul you out of the tub when you’re done and reuse it myself, reuse the blade too of course.
Dan
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 2:10 PMThere’s a lot of anti-bike sentiment. For the record, there are a lot of w*nkers on the road, be it on a pushbike, motorbike or car.
Let the good people of this world get around on what ever mode they like and keep out of the way of quicker road users.
Let us accept that w*nkers are w*nkers and one should not assume the behaviours of one reflect the majority.
Tezz
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 9:21 PMwhile we are ranting about some bike users being idiots, can we also talk about trucks in the right hand lane, slow ass drivers in the right hand lane, taxis not using indicators and making jerky movements and of course the motorbike users who cut to the front of the line.
Daniel
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 11:07 PMLet’s not forget to mention those as*hole drivers who don’t look when they turn into a side street (broken collarbone), turn out of a side street, don’t indicate when they’re pulling over, changing lanes, opening car doors, drive so close to a bike rider they clip you with their mirror at 40km/h, swerve in front of you in peak hour traffic so that you can’t even ride in the gutter, turn at the lights even when you’re clearly going through on a green as if you don’t exist, or my favourite, drive a logging truck and slowly drift into the bike lane until I clipped a gutter, came off my bike into a footpath and bowled over a teenage kid (and then just drive off like nothing happened)… Just because they pay rego doesn’t mean that they’re good people. Then again these incidents are in the minority, from a few crappy or malicious drivers, I don’t think of every driver as “the enemy”, and you shouldn’t treat bike riders the same way.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure there’s a bunch of dicks out there (probably consigned to the city where those critical mass jerks are), but some of us ride because we love to do it; and a lot of us actually obey the street rules as if we were driving a car or a motorbike, because as I can attest to, even coming off at 20km/h means weeks of picking gravel and glass out of your skin, which is not nice.
David
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 1:49 AMWow.
An article about locks, and it gets spammed with copious anti-bike bigotry. This country does seem a bit backward sometimes.