Patrick Symmes writes about the the five bikes he’s had stolen for Outside:
In America’s rough streets, there are four forms of currency—cash, sex, drugs, and bicycles. Of those, only one is routinely left outside unattended.
Symmes deliberately allowed four of those bikes to be stolen in an attempt to track the thieves using a GPS. He could have just used the Dutch method to avoid having your bike stolen: drive a beater and lock it up with a huge-ass chain.
