kurt@pyuxhh.UUCP (K A Gluck) (06/24/84)
I use a 1/4 inch thick cable with a master lock (combo), it is about 6 ft long.
Many years ago I developed a method for using the cable that gives it
infinite superiarity over a chain.
The best way to discribe this methiod is first to discribe the normal method of
using a cable.
NORMAL METHOD:
Dismount front wheel and place next to back wheel.
run end of cable through center of frame, both wheels, around
object and back to other end of cable.
Efective length of cable 3 ft.
MY METHOD:
take cable. notice that the ends are loops that have the cabablitity
to pass the cable through its own end.
take 1 end of cable. pass other end through its loop. this shoud be
done so that the loop is formed around the main down tube. (you are going to
have to fight the coil in a precoiled cable to do this but it is worth it).
now you have a 6 ft long cable that is ancored to your frame.
take free end, pass through rear wheel, then through front wheel (not
dismounted).
Then take it to object you wish to lock to, pass around object
and fold cable back upon itself (you cant pass it through its end for
to do so would require passing the entire bycicle through the
end (topological but not pratical). But you can lock the lock in
such a way so that it completes the loop (ie the lock shank goes through
the loop and around the cable body.)
I wish I was more expresive with words or had a mac to draw it and
send the picture.
Any way with this method you get 6 ft of efective cable (minus the ends).
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