[soared]

This is plainly not true. In 99% of America (read: not cali, nyc, etc) if you lock your bike up it won't get stolen.

[brewdad]

You'll have to add Portland and Seattle to that list as well as any city with a large university. If there is a large community of cyclists, there will be bike thieves working hard to separate them from their bikes.

[stevenwoo]

I will grant you by virtue of there being more people in California and New York City, there will be more of everything. But for there to be $350,000,000 US worth of bicycles stolen every year (estimate is old) the problem is more common than you might think. https://priceonomics.com/post/30393216796/what-happens-to-st...

[theparanoid]

I'm in a suburb and had the seat stolen off a department store bike.

[stevenwoo]

I have some friends in San Diego and they had department store bikes not visible from the street in a fenced in carport and they were stolen so now they lock their replacement bikes up and painted them to look like junk.