We’ve written a comprehensive guide to making sure your bike doesn’t go missing while its parked, but recently the blog BikeHacks covered some creative ways to protect your various components from getting swiped as well. They’ve complied eight ways to protect your components.

My favorites are: 

1. Super glue and ball bearing: Glue a ball bearing into the head of the screw/bolt. Via the blog Living for the City comes this picture. A variety of glues could be used, but many out there on the Internet believe super glue to be the solution of choice. This may seem odd considering the whole point of super glue is to bond things forever, but mix some Q-tips and acetone or a product like Z-7 Debonder, with a bit of time and a cold beverage, and removing the ball bearing when needed is not that hard.

And

4. Candle Wax: Posted by naxosaxur at Ask MetaFilter.com is a solution used by an old boyfriend who was a messenger in Boston.

. . .my ex would fill all the cavities that had screws in them with candle wax. like the handlebars: wherever there was a joint with a screw, he would drip wax in the holes so that a bike-thief would have to take a lot of time digging out the wax in order to remove the screws.

The least appealing option comes last. I don’t recommend this if you plan to ride more than five minutes anywhere.

8. Feces of choice: I will leave a picture off of this one. I ran across one post that featured the following advice: smear everything with human feces. Although someone else responded and stated that fox feces is a superior tactic because of a more pungent odor.

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