Dam Thieves!

Wallace1492

Just noticed last night that the saddle bag on my MTB was missing.
Now it would not just fall off.

Only time recently it has been out of my sight was when I was in A&E helping an injured friend a couple of weeks ago. Bike was double locked to a fence right outside, and well away from public view, so surmise that some scrote going into or leaving A&E nicked it. Never thought to take of saddlebag.....

As I am away on an MTB epic tomorrow, I now need to go out and replace the kit - multitool, tubes, chain pins, quick links, tyre boot, tyre levers, patches, etc etc... as well as the saddlebag itself. Probably best part of £70. Grrrrrrrrrrr :evil:

roddixon

Some numpty stole my frame bag with nothing in it... people will snatch anything that isnt bolted to the ground, hate ++ :evil:

davmaggs

Hospitals do have all sorts of wasters wandering about.

I shall best the empty bag theft, with a black carrier bag being stolen off my saddle (using as rain cover)

Headhuunter

When I had my bike crash, someone persuaded the ambulabnce staff to take my bike in the ambulance with me to hospital. However when I emerged the lock had been placed round the seatpost (attached to a railing), so all any potential thief needed to do was undo the allen key on the seatpost collar and they would have the whole bike! I was amazed it was still there after 4 hours...

prawny

I've just asked one of our account managers to get the light off my bike I forget to take off this morning. He's out seeing a broker not far away, I'd love to see him try and get it off though, he's got no clue about bikes.

walkingbootweather

I lost a battered aluminium water bottle on my last trip down to London with the bike. Bike itself was double locked and fortunately I had removed lights, computer etc. Bottle wasn't worth anything but I was thirsty when I noticed. :evil:

Wrath Rob

Years ago I locked by MTB up in Ashton Court in Bristol. Wandered around the park for a bit with some mates and when I came back someone had nicked the saddle :evil: Had to ride home standing up the whole way.

Same MTB was locked in an AA car park when I worked there (again in Bristol). Someone stole the rear bike light that I'd selotaped onto the seat post as it was broken. Had to ride home after my shift ended at 11pm and got stopped by the Fuzz for riding with out a rear light. :evil: :evil: Who the hell steals a broken rear light from a work car park?

It got worse, someone stole the MTB a few months later :evil: :evil: :evil:

suzyb

roddixon wrote:

Some numpty stole my frame bag with nothing in it... people will snatch anything that isnt bolted to the ground, hate ++ :evil:

So true.

cjcp

Unlucky, Wallace. Grrrr indeed.

TuckerUK

I thought this was going to be a thread about rising water levels and imminent flooding.

Try 'damn'

Wallace1492

TuckerUK wrote:

I thought this was going to be a thread about rising water levels and imminent flooding.

Try 'damn'

Pedantic!! someone must have stolen the "n"! D mn Thi ves!

jonginge

Wallace1492 wrote:

TuckerUK wrote:

I thought this was going to be a thread about rising water levels and imminent flooding.

Try 'damn'

Pedantic!! someone must have stolen the "n"! D mn Thi ves!

Must admit I thought it, too, and that they could have been usefully employed during WWII to save that double-barrelled Wallace chap some effort

MichaelW

I had a bottle battery stolen from my parked bike. It was a home-made affair with a lead acid battery inside the mankiest waterbottle I had, sealed up with gaffer tape.

These thieving scroats never ask "whats it worth", its is always "can I nick it".

What is the market value of a used saddle or saddlebag?

SimonAH

Depends if it was off Pippa Middleton's bicycle I guess?

Confusedboy

You are all assuming that the reason thieves steal stuff off your bikes is to make a raise, Sometimes it is, but the real reason is because they can. Thieves have shitty lives (which they richly deserve) that give them a deep resentment of everyone else's, so they will take stuff from you just to annoy you and make your life that little bit more like thiers. It makes them feel more equal to you.

Fed up with having to remove lights every time I parked my bike, back in the 80s I bought a set (made I think by Ever Ready, who made batteries that were anything but), that locked to your rear stay and handlebars by a fairly substantial toughened plastic bracket; these things were too big for pockets and you turned them on and off with the key. I only had them a few weeks before they were smashed off the bike, presumably with a big hammer, and stolen. In that state they'd have been of no further use to the thief, who had clearly taken them just to show he could. I now remove everything I can every time, including my Toepeak bar carrier and panniers when I use them for shopping. The up side of this is that the panniers can be loaded at the checkout and my shopping clamped directly to the bike.

Wallace1492

Well, replacement kit bought - total of £68.93 and that does not include the loss of the emergency money, or other bits and pieces like disposable gloves, cable ties, ryhipnol..... no err I mean plasters and antiseptic wipes.

bunter

Someone stole both QR skewers out of my locked bike once. Bit of a surprise when both wheels fell off...