did your kid take (or will they take) a bike to college?

[Anonymous]

See if there is a bikeshare option. It keeps you from dealing with the hassles of bike ownership like theft and finding a place to store it in summer. Also good for getting back home if you end up somewhere and ubers are a long wait/expensive.

[Anonymous]

Yes, it was stolen.

[Anonymous]

Yes, but has bike storage in dorm.

[Anonymous]

Hoping to buy a used one for cheap at a local thrift shop. We'll see how it goes...

[Anonymous]

Yep. Stolen sitting the first week. With locks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep. Stolen sitting the first week. With locks.

What kind of bike and what kind of locks?

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Get a U lock with a cable. There’s a specific way to thread the cable through the bike to deter theft. I can’t remember. But if you take the bike to your local shop for assembly and buy the lock there, they can show you how to thread it.

[Anonymous]

Stanford is all about bikes but getting a used one there. Doesn't need to be fancy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did they take a bike to campus if they are not allowed to have a car freshman year?

I spent all of college on my bike but that was a different era.

Please consider the crime rate in the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

My son may get one when he arrives. Depends upon if he feels comfortable riding it in the city.

Perhaps, it is obvious, but you want to get a bike with tires at least 2 inches across.

[Anonymous]

I judged the crime rate based on the bikes - the cheaper the bike the worse crime. I found UC Santa Cruz to have the best bikes.

[Anonymous]

Take something cheap, see if they can store it in a dorm basement or similar. I rode a creaky cheap bike in college and no one really bothered with it.

[Anonymous]

My son rides an electric scooter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did they take a bike to campus if they are not allowed to have a car freshman year?

I spent all of college on my bike but that was a different era.

No, kid flew as college was about 1,000 miles away. Biking would have taken too long & probably would be dangerous due to unknown territory.

[Anonymous]

I wrote that mine will but he also bikes a ton for transportation at home so I feel confident he will use it there.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Bike-friendly college town out west. Kid regularly rode to school through high school, as we didn't live far enough away to justify getting a parking spot at school, but it was faster than walking, so we were all confident that it would get used. We actually bought a used bike there to avoid having to transport a bike across the country, and the old bike can still be used at home during breaks.