In its circa 1974 short How to Protect Your Bike, Sid Davis Productions relies on a strategy beloved by the authors of my grade school health and home economics textbooks: enumeration. This isn't the "seven dietary guidelines," though—I forget what those were, incidentally—but five fingers to remind you how to protect your bike:
To summarize (in case that 1970s camp was too much for you to endure the film's full 12 minutes):
(1) Lock your bike
(2) in a wise location
(3) with a good chain and lock
(4) chained around something strong and through both wheels and frame and
(5) register it in every way you can.
The recommendations hold up pretty well after all these years, and since we haven't quite perfected that secret alarm the narrator fantasizes about (11:10), you best make sure you keep them well in mind.
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