Thieving *&%$£$s!!!!!

attica

chuckcork wrote:

the back wheel was kicked in, but the bike was still there as it was firmly locked in place

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when/if you find your bike like this - especially in the street - it's because thieves have targeted it for nicking later, they do it in the hope that you'll abandon the bike in order to get home (So not necessarily in CCs case).

Johnny Thief will then return later and remove everything that he wants.

This is the reason you see so many forlorn semi bikes locked to street furniture and abandoned.

heavymental

Attica wrote:

chuckcork wrote:

the back wheel was kicked in, but the bike was still there as it was firmly locked in place

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when/if you find your bike like this - especially in the street - it's because thieves have targeted it for nicking later, they do it in the hope that you'll abandon the bike in order to get home (So not necessarily in CCs case).

Johnny Thief will then return later and remove everything that he wants.

This is the reason you see so many forlorn semi bikes locked to street furniture and abandoned.

Is that right? I thought it was just cus some prik thought it would be funny. Surely a thief can't be arsd stealing a bike that isn't immediately sell-on-able i.e if it has a taco'd wheel!?

attica

Then why do so many of them end up scavenged to pieces, often just a frame left over?

ride_whenever

Because once they've been abandonned then cyclist see them and come and strip them...

attica

ride_whenever wrote:

Because once they've been abandonned then cyclist see them and come and strip them...

Hmmm

I personally wouldn't scavenge parts off somebody else's pride and joy. Those components certainly don't wash off in the rain, so what does happen to them?

I throw it open to the floor - does anyone on here scavenge parts from abandoned machines?

dirk_van_gently

How the F did they get it over a 7ft wall?

ChrisLS wrote:

...Boris wants the SAS let loose on bike theives :twisted: :evil: ...sounds like a plan to me...sorry to hear about your bike being stolen

BJ has just escalated in my estimation.

lost_in_thought

Dirk Van Gently wrote:

How the F did they get it over a 7ft wall?

ChrisLS wrote:

...Boris wants the SAS let loose on bike theives :twisted: :evil: ...sounds like a plan to me...sorry to hear about your bike being stolen

BJ has just escalated in my estimation.

It weighed about as much as a large bible - they probably threw it!

Littigator

Attica wrote:

ride_whenever wrote:

Because once they've been abandonned then cyclist see them and come and strip them...

Hmmm

I personally wouldn't scavenge parts off somebody else's pride and joy. Those components certainly don't wash off in the rain, so what does happen to them?

I throw it open to the floor - does anyone on here scavenge parts from abandoned machines?

I haven't but I put it down to Scavenge Monsters, little pixie type creatures that eat small bike parts only from lost or abandoned bikes (aparrently they taste better) latin name Scavengian cyclisticus. Related to the Sock Eating Monster (ref. Terry Practchett - Sourcery)

biondino

There's an abandoned bike frame attached to my block of flats with a decent selle italia saddle and some carbon handlebars, hmm...

chuckcork

Attica wrote:

chuckcork wrote:

the back wheel was kicked in, but the bike was still there as it was firmly locked in place

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when/if you find your bike like this - especially in the street - it's because thieves have targeted it for nicking later, they do it in the hope that you'll abandon the bike in order to get home (So not necessarily in CCs case).

Johnny Thief will then return later and remove everything that he wants.

This is the reason you see so many forlorn semi bikes locked to street furniture and abandoned.

Maybe in the case of bikes in the street, this was to the rear wall of the flat and only inches away from the back door, so no way was there going to be an abandoning.

Could have been worse, my neighbours used bike racks next to the flat, and both their bikes were stolen (a few months beforehand I might add)

the_hundredth_idiot

There was the remains of a bike chained up near my local train station. Just a blue Klein frame and forks chained to a lamp post. Everything else had been stripped - I'm guessing by thieves and that the owner had simply left the frame there. I passed it for weeks and kept thinking that, sooner or later, it would just get thrown in the dump, which seemed a shame. It disappeared eventually, but I'm not sure whether it was scavenged or collected by the council to be thrown away.

snooks

Sorry to hear of your loss

Check Ebay, brick lane, gumtree etc

A mate had his brand new bike stolen the day after he bought it...he'd locked it in his shed, the scum pulled down the back of the shed and took the bike and the part of the shed it was attached to :shock:

Bring back hanging....just for bike thieves :twisted:
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MikeParkin65

Also deeply sorry to hear of your loss but, please, what is a 'Gollum bike'?!

lost_in_thought

See the link in my singature

MikeParkin65

Could be because I'm at work but the link is saying that the page cannot be found?

lost_in_thought

Thieves have stolen my bike and also my link!

It was a Montana TRK AL-1, feel free to look itup, and it was so ugly the london FGFGSGSGSGSGSGSGFGSSS types referred to it as a gollum bike.

biondino

Here it is.

The back half of the gollum bike isn't too bad but the headset/fork combo, my eyes!!