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Monday, October 29, 2007

Dept. of Ewwwww


This nifty picture came across our desk today, and we knew immediately what it was: A bike woven into the web of a tent-worm colony.





But it brought to mind one other form of bike security that we've been meaning to mention for a while: Make your bike so disgusting that no one wants to even touch it. (Fixed Gear Gallery is a good place for ideas.)

What other substances, compounds, or materials would you like to see developed as bike-thief repellent?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I can't remember the name of the book as its been many years since I read it, but it took place in the future and its main character was a bike messenger. One of her theft deterents, aside from the built in alarm system, was spray-on rust. Someone should be talkin' to the R&D guys at Krylon about this one

Anonymous said...

Yeah, whose the local (MSP) dude who waas in Dirt Rag with the bike with the cowcatcher on it? I'm totally brainfarting his name at the moment, but he has some really ugly hightech paint -- like what they spray box cars with or something -- that looks like rust but actually makes the frame indestructo. I'll look it up and repost when I can.

Anonymous said...

Specialized had that snot trough on the top tube of last year's Tarmac. If you just kep that thing filled up with sweat, spit, and snot it would be cool.

Or else you could trowel some dog shit into it, and it would look like one of those celery sticks with peanut butter that we had in elementary school lunches.