I had my electronic derailleur, controller, and chain (almost 1000$ in total) stolen from my bike in the basement bike storage of my building🤯😡. Hopefully the insurance will cover it, but does anyone have ideas for making it harder to remove than just one screw? In wondering if the thief just shows ip again in two weeks now that he/she knows that it is there. Maybe a locking bolt, or something like the special bolts used on car rims?
by Klutzy-Sun741
11 Comments
Time to switch to cable actuated ones.
Unless someone snuck into the bike room, it was stolen by someone in your building who knows what bike parts are expensive and also has Allen keys, a chain tool, etc. Unfortunately that bike will be in the same place and the thief will likely have all the time in the world to come up with some way to steal it again, no matter how secure.
That really, really sucks though.
Maybe look into wall mounting solution in your own apartment?
You could glue some ball bearings into the heads of the bolts. It could be tricky to get them out depending on the type of glue and how tight of a fit. Use something like wax for more removability, or epoxy for less removability. Ultimately you’ll only slightly inconvenience a thief. You probably need to store the bike somewhere secure or this will happen again.
Stealing a chain is kind of crazy. I haven’t heard of that one yet. The derailleur at least has some resale value.Â
That’s messed up. I lock my wheels but never thought about how easy it is to take the mech off.
May be could be solved with [Hexlox](https://hexlox.com) solutions
You don’t keep bikes like that in the common bike storage, there’s your problem. Only takes one bad apple out of a hundred.
Do these electronic components not have some remote locking mechanism or feature these days, for example how you can lock your iPhone remotely, or maybe you can only pair it to original hardware/shifters etc unless ‘unlocked’? I know in general this would be a massive pain in the ass but it seems like an oversight for very expensive digital components in the digital age.
These all have unique IDs and serial numbers that is stored as part of ANT+ and Bluetooth data. SRAM could track this via their app and services like Strava could have a device list to block/flag/etc. If the new ‘owner’ was to ever try configure/iodate/upload data after using it, it could be found. The bonus is that data containing location too.
No chance in hell either SRAM or Strava will want anything to do with such a list/service for this purpose.
Unrelated but is that an Omnium CXC?
Want a fancy mech – keep your bike at home.
SRAM may be able to brick the old one. Not that it helps your current situation. I say this because we had a new out of the box AXS bike with a front derailleur we couldn’t pair or get to work. Contacted SRAM and the tech could see that it was not registered to the bike but some other location entirely. I forget the story exactly but something like that. I wonder if there’s some way SRAM to track the device. Although I guess it is/was in your building.