In some cases a very good idea.

10 PM News Last year over in Austin: A guy pulled into a Walmart for a few minutes after hitting the trails over at Rocky Hill (local mountain bike trails). He returned to find his 2200 USD and his buddies 1800 USD Mountain bikes gone along with his 1100 USD bike carrier. He was pretty upset and visibly expressing it to the police officer and cameras. The officer taking it all in then turned to the cameras and gave one of those Mehhh expressions.

Also just a few months ago over in Dallas a guy at a stop light in traffic had someone run up behind his car, remove his Trek bike and then ride off on it! He and several others that saw the incident tried to pursue. In Dallas traffic! That bike is gone, gone, gone... Ha...

My hitch carrier locks onto the receiver. The carrier has simple cables to lock the bikes.

In traffic, that's a different story. I admit I don't lock the bikes onto the carrier except when I'm leaving them for any reason.

Last edited by Camilo; 08-17-23 at 05:29 PM.

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