Welcome and Roadman Blueprint launch
Rowman today, I want to talk to you about how to prevent your bike getting stolen. Like Garan Thomas. Let's cure that intro! The big question is this. How do we use cycling as a tool to improve our health, our happiness and our longevity? That is the question and this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Welch and welcome to the Rowman Podcast. Roman, welcome back to another Roman Cycling Podcast, a little bit of a hiatus last week. You know, I'm pretty much daily, I think, if you're to look over the last 12 to 18 months, but yeah, every now and then things do get a little bit busy, you get a little bit hectic. And we are launching the Robeman Blueprints last week, and I had Robeman webinars to do on both Thursdays. So it's pretty much all hands on deck getting the webinars done. If you didn't get a chance to check out the webinar, they will occasionally come up every now and then. I'm gonna do another webinar on a Thursday. So keep it listening out here. And if you're interested in that Robeman Blueprint, to pop me an email for the moment on admin at Robeman. cycling.com and we'll see what we can do to get you hooked up the Roman blueprint to summarize the launch on board it is the Roman blueprint that's four months one on one coaching it's four months strength and conditioning plan it's a four month nutrition plan that we've put together it's a four month motivation package and it's a four month biohack package we're selling the whole thing for 997 once off payment for the four months so there's a couple of spots left if anyone is interested pop me down the email on admin at roemansycling.com we're gonna get you hooked up at that but today I want to talk to you about how not to get your bike stolen this was the podcast that Garan Thomas needed last week if anyone doesn't know what I'm talking about Garan Thomas pokes to the picture on his facebook or twitter sitting in the back of an uber fully kisses and his bike gone he went for a coffee shop stopped to grab a coffee and and I was feeling real cultural, real French there, stopped for a cafe, he stopped for a coffee, he stopped for a brew, and came out and his bike was gone. So I just got meeting because we'd stop on, you know, our fair chunk of spins, and there's definitely some strategies that I've built being a dope and stopping for coffees, you know, like any capital city, if you're stopping for a coffee and leaving your bike out to it, you need to have your head on a swivel because there's a good chance it's gonna be gone.
Tricks to deter opportunistic bike thieves
But I definitely have a few little strategies that I do and it was only after I sang around in the Uber that I thought, huh, I wonder if there's everyone do this stuff. So I'm just gonna rattle through a few of them for you. Some of them are obvious and some of them are not so obvious. The forest one's pretty obvious. Pick the place you stop. And you can pretty much gauge yourself from looking around if this is gonna be a good place to stop or if it's gonna be a bad place to stop. Are the bikes within view? is there a bunch of other what look like law-abiding citizens sitting around drinking coffees outside, et cetera. Can't is there a way to talk the bikes, kind of a little bit in, out of sight, picking the place you stop, negates a lot of the other stuff I'm gonna talk about today. But some of the other ones are there's a alarm on a garment, which is pretty cool. I'm not sure if it's on Wahoo, but I know it's on garment. But the little tricks that I do, we always handle the bikes together. So it's difficult to just grab one because you gotta put yourself into the Tief's mindset here, and they're looking for an easy grab, run, and mount. And a lot of the time, you know, sometimes it's more sophisticated ones, like the one in London where you had lads with machetes on the back of a maup head, but a lot of the time it's opportunistic Tiefs that are looking for a grab and run. So if the bikes are tangled together, that's gonna give them a hassle. Secondly, what I'll do is I call it the helmet lock, and I literally just get the strap off my helmet, and I'll put a true to wheels of two bikes, wanted the other lads and put a trigger wheel to two other bikes and another lad might clamp two or crossbars together with his helmet and toy to strap over and it just means again to run with tree bikes and lift them up is really really hard to do and it gives us a bit of time to go in chase but it's also almost impossible in a frenzy for a thief to start disconnecting helmets because they can't even see in their frenzied you know robbing state of mind that oh shit there's a bunch of helmets tangled around here. And our trick is to loosen the front skewers, again, preventing that fast getaway. But the king of all these tricks, and we've started doing it, especially if one of the lads on the group is carrying a handlebar bag, it's just to put a little cable and a padlock in there, small little cable, tangled around all the boygs and padlock it, use a combination lock and I have it in my handlebar bag and if I don't have it one deuter lads normally has it so it works super well and it puts your mind at rest.
Locks, listener shout-outs and sign-off
It's a five-year-old luck. If somebody comes along with a bolt cutters, your bike under-organized, your bike's gone. This is going to prevent the opportunity. Who's just gone along and gone? Oh, there's a bike. Looks like a Pinarello. F8. There I go. Boom. Gone. So there you are. Few tricks to stop your bike getting stolen. Let me know if you have any tricks that you've been going with to stop your your boy getting stolen. And if you've missed, hit me up over on Instagram, it's roman.so like on Instagram, I know a bunch of DMs to get back to. I have a bunch of people who have been looking to come on the podcast with a backlog of guests. So if you are interested on coming on the podcast and you think you have an interesting story to share, pop me a message over on Instagram, hit me with DM. I will get back to you, you know, if I don't get back to you in a day or two days or a week, don't take offense to it. I will get back to eventually. It's been super busy with launching the Robeman Blueprint and the webinar is last week, but nice to get back into the flow of podcasts. You never know, maybe this podcast will even stop you getting your boy cropped. Robeman, thanks for listening and I'm gonna chat to you again tomorrow. Hey Robeman, it's Anthony again. Just before you head off real quick, I just want to mention the Robeman Blueprint. It's the ultimate coaching package. It's four months long. It's four months of one-on-one coaching sessions which are on professional roadman cycling coach. It's four months of strength and conditioning plans so you never need to worry about is this strength and conditioning plan aligned with my cycling goals. It's four months of nutrition plans to fuel all that. It's four months of biohacks which you know I love so much and I'm getting to pick the brain of all these experts and it's four months of motivation to make sure you never miss a session and every single session you hit it with commitment and with purpose. The whole package is 997 euro. I have a limited number of places on the roadman blueprint. If you're interested in getting started pop me an email and add me in at roadmancycling.com. This is the ultimate coaching package for those looking to take their cycling and their performance to the next level.