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Bicycles are precious items that many people own, people own bicycles for many different reasons, could be for transportation, and could also be for fitness reasons, or maybe for collections, or for sale. Either way these items can be very expensive and useful as the same time. They’re also a very eco-friendly way to get around, and exercise at the same time as well.

But when it comes owning a bicycle there can be some downsides to them, and that downside is people with sticky fingers. People have come to know that bicycles are worth quite of bit of money; this is why it’s when purchasing a bicycle it’s always highly recommended to get a lock with it as well, it’s a great investment, as tours operators in Miami we can take a closer look to this situation and bring it to you readers on this article.

Recently here in Miami it seems like stealing bicycles has become a trend or something because it seems that everyone I know who has ever owned a bike, about 90% of them have had a bike stolen from them at least once, I’ve actually seen someone walk into a store before for a split second leaving their bicycle unlocked and someone comes by hops on it and speeds off, it’s quite sad actually.

That’s only one method these crooks use to take off with our bicycles by the way, they don’t need the whole bike to make a quick buck off it either, certain parts of the bicycle or worth some money as well. For example the seat itself or the wheels are worth money and sell in the black market, what the thieves would normally do is take the seats and wheels off the bike leaving just the frame, they use special tools for this, so even if your bike is locked up tight they can still render your bike useless, and that will cost you money, but of course they don’t care they’re criminals.

One way to prevent this from happening is to take the seat off yourself and bring it inside your house after you lock up your bike, you can also by wheel locks so the thieves can’t take your wheels as well. But the most common way they steal your bike is with a lock breaker, the ones construction workers use, having one of these out in the streets is illegal and can only be used for construction purposes, but what they normally do is keep them in a backpack so it’s not obvious.

Kryptonite is a company that invented the u-lock, one of the top bike locks on the market; and the ones that all the Miami tour companies are using, they have gathered statistics to the cities with the most bicycle thefts in order, New York, Chicago, Miami, San Francisco, Washington DC, Boston, Austin, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Honolulu, bicycle thefts are at their peak in the summertime, and the average price of stolen bikes is 6, and in the year 2000 more than 313,469 bikes have been reported stolen with well over million lost to the sticky fingered thieves, when purchasing a bicycle take steps to keep your bike secure, after all you did spend your hard earned money purchasing it, why give thieves a chance to take advantage of you. In the situation that you rented it, you will always have to put down a collateral or security deposit to secure the renter (normally any of the Miami tours companies) from losing the bicycle.

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