Very sorry to hear this, but appreciate the heads up.

 

Damn it. Time to hire a welder. Sorry man.

 

The percentage of people in the world that suck seems to be on the rise 😱

 

They don't suck, they just need to be reformed and not held accountable.

 

Took this pic and idea from another post here. It would have slowed them down for another 5 seconds maybe, but it makes me feel better.

 

If you want to lose faith in pretty much all locks just watch a few of this guy's videos: https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=lockpickinglawyer

 

He exposes a lot of flawed products, which is great, but few thieves have the tools and experience to run through “good-enough” locks like he does.

 

Kuat racks have a similar problem (about 12 unique keys).

My solution was to have people rear-end me while the rack is on the car, so now it is a bit bent up and unattractive. I put road bike stickers on it too, in order to further devalue it in the eyes of would-be thieves.

 

bummer.

this video shows that no key is necessary to defeat these types of locks.

^^^ i like jk-47's u-lock method pictured above; i may add one to my rack for extra insurance.

gdmf bike thieves can go eat a d1ck. same goes for bike rack thieves.

 

If One up would have put the slot in from left to right, you couldn't get a pipe long enough to break the lock

 

Sorry you have to deal with this. I'm still unable to understand how people live with themselves after crimes like this, even addicts. Unfortunately, one of biggest contributing factors is "street in SF", where there have been no consequences for decades. At least they didn't get your bike too.

 

I'm still unable to understand how people live with themselves after crimes like this, even addicts.

"I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damaging thing of all... I think I can live with it. That MTB rack I stole off a van-lifer van haunts me the most. There wasn't even bike on it... so senseless. The 'Drink Tahoe Brew' sticker makes me feel a little redeemed, that's why I haven't just hanged myself."

 

Sorry for your misfortune at the hands of others.

I would be loathe to rely upon the locking pin anyways even if I hadn't seen parkmeister's admittedly shocking video. You just have to look up how fast even hardened security chain can be cut with a cordless angle grinder to realize that pin wouldn't even last 15 seconds.

That said, I do have to rely upon a security chain to secure (relatively speaking) my load, and so it does double-duty to secure my rack. It should at least give would-be-thieves some pause.

The biggest headache of this setup is that because it is a pain to thread/unthread the chain though the hitch eyelets, you basically don't remove the chain at all. Which poses a problem since the automatic car wash I use (recall that our region is in a drought) won't allow you in with a bike rack on the back. I had to get a hitch step so that with the hitch rack removed, the chain can be wrapped onto something.

 

The biggest headache of this setup is that because it is a pain to thread/unthread the chain though the hitch eyelets, you basically don't remove the chain at all.

Can you thread the padlock through the hitch eyelet(s) and then the chain through the padlock?

 

I had friends who live in San Francisco and auto related theft is commonplace (as are muggings). One of them had a Izusu Trooper with the tire mounted on the rear of the vehicle and when he came out of Safeway the wheel was gone. Another friend lived in the Marina district and she had the Blaupunkt radio stolen from her BMW three times. The last time she had put in a Black Bart car alarm and the thief stole the radio and the alarm system.

A cordless angle tool with a $4 cut-off wheel can slice through any lock, any cable, and any chain in seconds. I only put my 1Up rack on the car when I am going to take two bikes somewhere. With a single bike I can fit it inside the SUV with both wheels left on the bike. I have noticed on UK bike forums that many riders use a mini van for transporting their bikes. This would keep the bike(s) out of sight and far less likely to get stolen.

There is a motion detector alarm that has excellent reviews on Amazon and is cheap at $16.49.
Wsdcam 113dB Bike Alarm Wireless Vibration Motion Sensor Waterproof Motorcycle Alarm with Remote

 

Bummer. The other weakness of the 1UP racks is that the tray itself is just bolted on to the main hitch attachment and the nuts (I think 1/2"?) are exposed on the bottom. So 10 seconds tops with a cordless impact gun and the whole tray with bike attached just lifts off.

 

Don’t give people ideas.
I always think that if thieves were smart enough they can steal so many expensive parts off a bike with a simple multi tool. Half the time there is a multi tool attached to the bike already.

 

Soo glad to live in a place where people don't steal ****!

 

If anyone is able to become a politician and bring us back to the proper days of ending a thieves life, I would vote for you.

Oh and bring back hard labor camps, you just may die of exhaustion and that is also fine.

 

If anyone is able to become a politician and bring us back to the proper days of being to end a thieves life, I would vote for you.

Oh and bring back hard labor camps, you just may die of exhaustion and that is also fine.

Right, fascist police states.

 

Bike theft is right up there with folk dancing and incest.

 

If I was an aspiring bike thief, I'd set my career up in an area with no consequences and bike owners who were understanding to my cause.

 

Well find out where a lot of these guys are on mtbr and set up shop. There seems to be a plethora of guys here that seem to be understanding of thieves and sympathy for them. Matter of fact, if you see the bike hanging in their locked garage, just ring the doorbell and tell them you need it and ask for the key. Sounds like some of these people will appreciate your honesty and just give you the key rather than breaking their window out. Probably will throw in a helmet, too.

 

Man, that went badly quickly, already had anxiety thinking about my 1up Rack disappearing off my Xterra. Oh well, back to chilling out for me

 

Does Big Bear have a different set of laws?

 

I don't know about Big Bear, but the west side of the mountain doesn't put up with crime. Gas thieves are getting the beat downs now with gas at $5.00 a gallon for 87. And don't run afoul of Twin Peaks Sheriff's. That's a worse beat down.

 

Very appreciative of the heads up. I have a 1up rack and will be removing it from my car today.

I'm done with SF after fourteen years. Will be moving this summer.

 

I have lived in SF for about 21 years now in all different parts of the city. Moving from Las Vegas, it is basically the polar opposite of Vegas in almost every way, so at first I loved the change and contrast and took advantage of many of the things the city had to offer. However, I was kind of over it about 10 years ago and have wanted to move since then, but I have also always kind of felt that to a certain extent the place you live is sort of what you make of it, and thought I would be happy living pretty much anywhere there is access to outdoors since that is where I spend most of my time and you could definitely do worse than Bay Area in that regard. However, IMO SF has become almost uninhabitable the last couple years. Unfortunately my wife absolutely loves it (still trying to understand why!) and she has a business here. However, we don't have kids and she is totally fine with me basically constantly going on day trips / road trips / big overseas trips so I am probably out of SF more than in it and that is the compromise we have come up with. I'm not sure how she is able to let this out of control property crime just roll off her back, but if she ever comes around, we will be out here the next day!

 

Bought my oneup in 2012 and they didn't have a lock hole to block the allen key back then. I wasn't worried because I maybe saw 1 other oneup a month. Now a days you can't swing an inner tube at a trail head without hitting 5. Going to have to rethink my security system.

 

Probably 80% of the racks here in the SoCal spots I ride, especially Aliso Woods, are 1up… A U-lock may slow down a thief with an angle grinder by a few seconds, but maybe they will move onto an easier target that’s literally 10ft away…

 

The new trend in San Francisco is to break into people's houses to steal bikes:

Two men with long criminal histories got caught for stealing bikes. What should S.F. do about them?

The case of two men accused of burglary in San Francisco is emblematic of the city’s...

www.sfchronicle.com

And in the case of the most recent arrest, both defendants have long rap sheets. Tiller even made headlines in 2016 for participating in a robbery of the Make-a-Wish Foundation at 400 Market St. and stealing — among other things — a scooter autographed by former Giants right fielder Hunter Pence.

Classy.

 

The new trend in San Francisco is to break into people's houses to steal bikes:

Two men with long criminal histories got caught for stealing bikes. What should S.F. do about them?

The case of two men accused of burglary in San Francisco is emblematic of the city’s...

www.sfchronicle.com

Classy.

They caught the Red-Bearded Burglar in Mendocino, but apparently they like their burglars there:

His smile in the patrol car photo came after a deputy told him of a nearby Halloween display that included a red-bearded jack-o’-lantern apparently depicting Evers, Sheriff Matt Kendall told the news blog Mendo Fever.

The sheriff told Mendo Fever that his department had dialed back its search after realizing that the burglar did not seem violent; the alleged shooting, they believed, “was a one-time thing.”

 

I've started removing my wiper blades, valve caps, and antenna before heading out on a ride.

 

Don’t forget the hood emblem.

 

The OP hasn't asked himself the question.

San Francisco Chronicle ripped for asking if residents should 'tolerate burglaries'

Social media users wondered if the San Francisco Chronicle had published satire when the outlet asked if residents should start to "tolerate" burglaries as part of their every day life amid a recent crime surge.

www.foxnews.com

 

Debating if it is better to remove my rack and store it in my garage when not riding, but I guess I would need to lock it up there too. Would suck to have to mount it every time I ride, and this still does not protect it at the trailhead. Thinking I better check with my renter's policy and see if it is covered, which is not such a big deal, but like my bike, it is not just having to replace it, but the waiting to get a new one that sucks! If I remember right I had to wait 2 months to get one about a year ago, not sure how long it would be now. I still have my old Yakima rack which is beat-up and loose, but I hate to go back to that. One-up could make some bucks if they came out with a reasonably good anti-theft system. Dang... this is depressing, going to go back to watching the 49ers getting their asses handed to them by the Cardinals, which is the lesser of two evils....

 

Mine is about 20 seconds on and 30 seconds off. I don't leave it on all the time because I don't want it exposed for those reasons and it's obviously something you could get pulled over for, although that is rare. It's just easier to me to take it off and store it.

 

Double post