The racks are bolted down, but there's no thread lock or anything to keep someone from taking the whole rack with your bike on it. The pic is where I locked my ride up; I'll miss my trusty commuter :(
Posted Mar 14, 2014, 3:46 PM UTC · edited
To be clear, thread lock won't stop anybody either. The solution is securing the rack with concrete so the nuts aren't reachable, or if they are, they could be removed and the rack still couldn't be removed.
That said ... a sad, sad picture.
No argument, but at least it would have required a bigger wrench
Thread-locking fluid doesn't do hardly anything in preventing a human from removing a nut/bolt with a tool. The size of the tool needed doesn't really change because you get a ridiculous amount of torque from a wrench anyway. The purpose is to prevent it from loosening itself over time by vibration and other environmental effects. Sorry to hear you lost your bike :/
god that sucks man. i've always wondered how hard it is to do that, i'm going to pay a lot more attention in the future.
That sucks, sorry to see that! You should tell CapMetro about this, if you haven't already, and ask that they deform the bolts on all their existing racks to help prevent this. That's what the city's bike rack installation specs say to do (if not embedding the rack in concrete, which is more secure like dougmc said).
I filed a police report on site, and the officer said he was going to contact them about it, but I'll definitely follow up with cap metro myself as well. Thanks for pulling up the city's standards for installation, i wouldn't have thought to check for that