I never lock mine. My insurance covers it if it is stolen but not if its vandalized. If someone decides to steel it but its locked they push them over. But I have heard of bike thieves just raising up the front wheel and putting it On a furniture dolly and taking it any way. Besides these Americas are not sought after bikes like those crotch rockets or a hardley davison

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe