Designing Bikes to be Theft-proof
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto
on 12.17.07

With my jazzy new mountain bike, everything is designed to come apart in seconds for adjustment and everything can be stolen just as quickly, so I wander about carrying a seatpoest and seat, and have a fifteen pound chain that weighs almost as much as the bike. EC thought about this and came up with such a clever solution: the seat post connects to the handlebars to turn the entire bike into a U-lock. He puts locking nuts on the hubs and voila! a self-locking bike.

One sees so many bikes that look like this- a good heavy cable lock and still the bike is stripped.

EC also has an idea for integrating a pump into the seat and tubing inside the frame to the tires, but that is perhaps overkill. and how can the seat both be a pump and a lock at the same time? I would stick with the locking idea. ::ECSketch via ::Core77
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