Tag: Theft

Nutlock Bicycle Wheel Security System

Replace conventional hex-nuts and secure your wheelset with custom-designed fasteners

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As many know from unfortunate experiences, bike thieves target components just as often (perhaps if not more so) than bicycles as a whole. While a sturdy U-Lock does well to secure a frame, it leaves one—sometimes both—wheels vulnerable. Carrying multiple locks and chains is cumbersome, and looping and locking it all up is time-consuming. Nutluck aims to solve the issue of wheel theft with custom-engineered …

Sparse

A new, minimal bike light that's hard to steal

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Sparse, a start-up brand of cycling lights based in San Francisco, makes a clean and refined product that truly lives up to the company name. The ultra-simple Sparse comes as a tail light and a front, spacer light that replaces a headset spacer to lie just under the stem. To build the brand idea and push the concept into production Sparse launched a Kickstarter campaign …