Bicycle Test (how safe is your neighborhood?)

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Ablang <ron916@gmail.com> wrote:
> "La Prueba de la Bicicleta"

> This is a series of videos (mostly on MySpace) where someone decides
> to run an experiment by placing an UNLOCKED bike on a busy street
> corner to see how long it takes before it is stolen. If a bike lasts
> an hour, the neighborhood is considered safe. If it lasts less than
> 10 mins, it is dangerous.

> You can search for these videos on the internet w/ the above in
> quotes.

> How would your neighborhood fare?

At my workplace, someone once left a bike by the front door. It stood
there (kickstand) for about four days, untouched, before I had security
remove it.
OTOH, this is the same building my locked trailer was stolen from.
You'd need a lot of bikes to get a statistically valid result from a
test like that one.


Bill


__o | I used to think that I was cool, running around on fossil fuel
_`\(,_ | Until I saw what I was doing was driving down the road to ruin.
(_)/ (_) | - James Taylor