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It is very easy, and inexpensive to get a rider put on your renter's insurance to cover expensive bikes. I have several bikes well over that pricepoint, it costs $150 bucks extra a year to insure, with a $250 deduct
While you may think that $150 is not a lot, I think you are in the minority.
I think most people have a hard time assessing the risks that are associated with doing certain common things (like locking up a bike, driving while texting, riding your bike through a red light, etc.). How else do you explain this expensive bike being locked up downtown with a combination cable lock (per her entry at the stolenbikeregistry)? I think that the owner, based on her experiences and judgment, might have thought it was OK.
So if your experiences tell you that locking up a bike with an combination cable lock is OK, you are likely not even thinking about buying additional protection.
Besides hoping that Seri does get her bike back, I can only hope that posting about this might prevent future bike thefts
Michael A said:It is very easy, and inexpensive to get a rider put on your renter's insurance to cover expensive bikes. I have several bikes well over that pricepoint, it costs $150 bucks extra a year to insure, with a $250 deduct
I have to disagree. Don't go lock up a $6000 dollar bike anywhere is pretty helpful, if only for the future.
heather stratton said:That's not really a helpful comment.
Mike said:im very sorry that you lost your bike, but if you're going to play the price tag card, in my opinion you should not have locked that nice of a bike anywhere downtown for any amount of time... none of my bikes are "$6000 bikes", however I am concerned about having my bikes taken, therefore they are either adequately locked up or they come everywhere with me.
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