(Photo: M.Andersen/BikePortland)
As bike theft has become the only major category of crime in Portland that’s on a long-term rise, cable locks have been going the way of the station wagon and the wristwatch.
The Portland State University Bike Hub doesn’t even sell them. When Mayor Charlie Hales briefly started biking to work last fall, Willamette Week wrote an entire online article about the fact that he used a cable lock. (His wife Nancy, a regular bike commuter, told us at the time that it was because they’d misplaced their U-lock keys that day.)
Apparently the Bike Theft Task Force at the Portland Police Bureau agrees. In a tweet on Wednesday, the team said they’ll be offering a lock exchange program at North Portland Sunday Parkways this weekend: you give them a cable lock, they give you a U-lock.
Still using that cable lock? Please DON'T! Bring your bike by our @SundayParkways tent and exchange the cable for a FREE @ABUS_Locks U-LOCK!
— PPB BTTF (@PPBBikeTheft) June 22, 2016
If you own a cable lock but not a U-lock, that’s a good deal.
(Thanks to Steve at the Portland Mercury for calling this to our attention.)
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