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I don’t bother locking up when I go to the supermarket. I just use the provided unicycle carriers
@Cedar_Dobson1 So I am new here and just saw your posting. I was at a local store today for a wee shopping trip. The last time I was in the shop I just rolled my ride around the store. This time a clerk offered to take my unicycle behind the counter. I let her, and I was free of not having to wheel it around in the store. Now, my uni is certainly smaller than what you have though, it is a 27.5" frame, but I only have a 24" wheel on it right now.
Cheers, safe riding, and may you always find all of your unicycle when you return back to it after locking it up - if that is what you choose to do.
Dawson
The best way to lock up a unicycle: Buy a handle saddle and lock the handle to a pole. Admittedly the rest of the unicycle might still be stolen by someone with a Allen key, but the handle saddle is likely the most expensive part of the uni anyway…
You could also use the old trick of looping a worn out piece of bicycle chain through your saddle and through your frame and then rejoining the links.
Then you’ll just be missing the wheel cranks and pedals.
What if you have schlumpf hub?
At least doing it that way, you will never buy too many groceries. I don’t think my wife would be thrilled. She loves buying those things that are not on the shopping list.
Sometimes I wheel “smaller” unis (like this 24”) through stores. I am not sure if it is allowed but so far I have not really been told off. I don’t think I would get away with it if it was a 36"
Have you tried writing a shopping list of the things you DONT need
If you’ve got the Schlumpf hub and they know what it is, then you’re as likely to find all your spokes cut and a missing hub.
loop your lock cable through the brake mount
I had forgotten about this thread when I stumbled across this patent the other week:
I’ve had an idea for a lock attachment for a while, arguably simpler than this. Like all cycle security it wouldn’t stand up to a thief with a battery powered angle grinder, but I think it would be reasonable. I would think most unicycle theft is opportunistic so any reasonable deterrent to just “lifting” it is probably useful.
If I ever get the time to draw it up I may well open-source it like your stuff on the other thread, I don’t think I could justify the cost of a patent. I see the status of this one is “abandoned”.
ABANDONED – FAILURE TO RESPOND TO AN OFFICE ACTION
Indeed. Honestly most patents that I have looked up (for a whole host of different things) have either expired due to passing 20 years, or due to a lack of maintenance payment within that period, or a failure to respond to something.
Would there be people who see the unicycle and don’t steal anything but damage it for fun? It was definitely cater some attention so I can imagine that happening.