{"id":140494,"date":"2016-05-10T13:14:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T13:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=140494"},"modified":"2016-05-10T13:19:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T13:19:25","slug":"ready-stop-thieves-stealing-wheels-gadget-game-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2016\/05\/10\/ready-stop-thieves-stealing-wheels-gadget-game-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready to Stop Thieves from Stealing Your Wheels? This Gadget is Game-Changing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Even if you get yourself a decent D-Lock, your bike is never entirely safe. If we forget about the fact that some thugs don\u2019t even try to be discreet about their thieving and saw your lock off straight out, the others are still very interested in at least your wheels or other parts of your bike.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/gqVR6kV.gif\">https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/gqVR6kV.gif<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That could be soon over, though. Security skewers already exist for wheels, seatposts and saddles, but they don\u2019t work on every single bolt design, and as our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2016\/02\/10\/exclusive-interview-with-a-real-bike-thief\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with an actual bike thief<\/a> shows, the thieves are well aware of those, carry keys to most of the common brands, and if they\u2019re determined enough, nothing\u2019s going to stop them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-140495\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2016\/05\/03e44ffdd0af199bd087ecdc5bf90aeb_original.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The concept behind Hexlox is simple, a small, uniquely designed piece of magnet is supposed to sit in the head of a hex head bolt. The same are used all around the bike, and only you have the key to extract them. That should make the work for thieves much much harder.\u00a0The project got successfully funded on Kickstarter, and you can already pre-order the products on Hexlox website.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-140496\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2016\/05\/79eb0bd7c18f8ec97c247e6c51f30b51_original.jpg\" alt=\"The concept behind Hexlox is simple, a small, uniquely designed piece of magnet is supposed to sit in the head of a hex head bolt. The same are used all around the bike, and only you have the key to extract them. That should make the work for thieves much much harder. The project got successfully funded on Kickstarter, and you can already pre-order the products on Hexlox website.\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We cannot guarantee that it will scare off all the thieves, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2016\/02\/10\/exclusive-interview-with-a-real-bike-thief\/\" target=\"_blank\">as our interview showed<\/a>, even these people play by some kind of rules. \u201cMy golden rule was \u2018do it under a minute or don\u2019t do it at all\u2019,\u201d revealed a thief we interviewed earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you get yourself a decent D-Lock, your bike is never entirely safe. 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