I’ve mentioned before that cycling can take over your life, but some people allow it to even more than others. I was surprised to read that one couple spent their wedding night in a tent at Mountain Mayhem in order to let the groom compete in the 24-hour race. It’s not the wedding night that everyone might dream of, with no fancy hotel and pampering, but in some ways it seems like the perfect way to start a life together, by doing something that on half of the relationship knows the other will enjoy. Let’s face it, as well, it won’t be the first or last time that a newly-wed bride does something she might not want to, but that her husband wants, on their wedding night.
Hopefully the couple weren’t too distracted by their night to keep an eye on their bikes, as it seems that some thieves are targeting large events in order to pick up expensive bikes across the country. There is hope, however, as companies such as Bike Revolution are coming up with real-world and technical deterrents and solutions to try and beat the thieves. Bike Revolution have developed a tagging system that identifies the bike and can even help to recover it. A barcode on the bike can even be scanned using a smart phone and the details matched against a database of stolen bikes, as well as the specs of stolen bikes being circulated on Twitter and on the internet.
I like the way that this allows everyone to be involved in tracing stolen bikes and ideally stop the market for bikes which thieves have collected to sell on. If a quick scan can show that the bike you’re thinking of buying has a dubious past then you are likely to think twice about buying it.
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