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Making a College bike Inconspicuous?
"Phil, Squid-in-Training" wrote in message news:3L2Ue.11996$Cc5.7045@lakeread06... Tom Nakashima wrote: "41" wrote in message oups.com... We should not have to go to such extremes and to ride garbage. What would car owners say if that's what they had to do to their cars, simply to make them workable transportation devices? Agree, if people didn't steal, we wouldn't have to go through this. -tom That's not the problem. Bicycles are still thought of as children's toys in America. A large percentage of the population only know what Huffys are, and have only heard of those $5000 bikes... To the average joe, bicycle theft is hardly a problem, so no solution needs to be formed. -- Phil, Squid-in-Training It shouldn't matter what the item is, why steal? I used to commute by bicycle to work, taking the train. I found a wallet on top of the USA paper machine early in the morning. It had all the ID's, credit cards, and $1,620 in cash. I returned everything back to the owner. He offered me a reward, I shook his hand, told him no reward. He said he was also a cyclist, so I told him, "from one cyclist to another." I've also seen fancy bicycles unlocked at restaurants or orther establishments, no one in sight, perhaps they forgot to lock their bikes. I won't touch them, but thinking I hope others do the same if they're not the owner. -tom |
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Making a College bike Inconspicuous?
"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
... "Phil, Squid-in-Training" wrote in message news:3L2Ue.11996$Cc5.7045@lakeread06... Tom Nakashima wrote: "41" wrote in message oups.com... We should not have to go to such extremes and to ride garbage. What would car owners say if that's what they had to do to their cars, simply to make them workable transportation devices? Agree, if people didn't steal, we wouldn't have to go through this. -tom That's not the problem. Bicycles are still thought of as children's toys in America. A large percentage of the population only know what Huffys are, and have only heard of those $5000 bikes... To the average joe, bicycle theft is hardly a problem, so no solution needs to be formed. -- Phil, Squid-in-Training It shouldn't matter what the item is, why steal? I used to commute by bicycle to work, taking the train. I found a wallet on top of the USA paper machine early in the morning. It had all the ID's, credit cards, and $1,620 in cash. I returned everything back to the owner. He offered me a reward, I shook his hand, told him no reward. He said he was also a cyclist, so I told him, "from one cyclist to another." I've also seen fancy bicycles unlocked at restaurants or orther establishments, no one in sight, perhaps they forgot to lock their bikes. I won't touch them, but thinking I hope others do the same if they're not the owner. |
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"Tom Nakashima" wrote ...
It shouldn't matter what the item is, why steal? I used to commute by bicycle to work, taking the train. I found a wallet on top of the USA paper machine early in the morning. It had all the ID's, credit cards, and $1,620 in cash. I returned everything back to the owner. He offered me a reward, I shook his hand, told him no reward. He said he was also a cyclist, so I told him, "from one cyclist to another." I've also seen fancy bicycles unlocked at restaurants or orther establishments, no one in sight, perhaps they forgot to lock their bikes. I won't touch them, but thinking I hope others do the same if they're not the owner. Let's try that again. I never lock my good bike, or use a lock for it, and thus I never leave it anywhere I can't keep an eye on it. If I'm in that restaurant, I make sure I have a good line of sight. I found $240 in an ATM once, and told the store manager about it. A couple of days later I got a call from a guy who lost money in the ATM, but it was only about $60 bucks, so I got to keep the rest! -- All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds Awake to find that it was vanity; But the dreamers of day are dangerous men, That they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible. -- T. E. Lawrence http://spaces.msn.com/members/flomblog/ |
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Making a College bike Inconspicuous?
"(PeteCresswell)" wrote in message ... Per Jasper Janssen: But that's more vandalism than actual *theft* (although you can't tell the difference as a victim, of course). I assumed that it was people stealing bikes just to ride them home. That's how it was with cars when I lived in Hawaii - at the end of a school day, kids could steal your car, drive it home, and just abandon it there. The ones who did this tended to come from a specific section of town and the cops would just advise people to look there for their cars. -- PeteCresswell Sounds like kids having fun, but what if everybody did that? Another inconvenience. -tom |
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Per Jasper Janssen:
But that's more vandalism than actual *theft* (although you can't tell the difference as a victim, of course). I assumed that it was people stealing bikes just to ride them home. That's how it was with cars when I lived in Hawaii - at the end of a school day, kids could steal your car, drive it home, and just abandon it there. The ones who did this tended to come from a specific section of town and the cops would just advise people to look there for their cars. -- PeteCresswell |
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Making a College bike Inconspicuous?
Someone Wrote: Jasper Janssen wrote: ... Make it *con*spicuous. If they have to repaint the bike and/or sell it a few states over to avoid the original owner claiming it when he sees it across the street, they won't bother.... I guess my bike, http://www.ihpva.org/incoming/2002/sunset/Sunset001.jpg, should be pretty theft-proof, then. -- Tom Sherman - Fox River Valley I had a flat rear on a triathlon bike & a broken chainstain on a recumbent. Put the 20" rear on triathlon bike. Bike was stolen in May. The witnesses noticed the thief & bike precisly from the mismatch. When I stopped and gave notices to the LBS near the theft, they specifically had remembered seeing me on that bike with the conspiciously mismatched tires. I don't think a less conspicious recumbent is very theft resistant. -- meb |
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Making a College bike Inconspicuous?
"Jim Flom " wrote Let's try that again. I never lock my good bike, or use a lock for it, and thus I never leave it anywhere I can't keep an eye on it. If I'm in that restaurant, I make sure I have a good line of sight. Now that brings a recollection: In the time it takes to butter a slice of bread, my bicycle disappeared. It was less than twenty feet away from where I sat. Mykal C |
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Making a College bike Inconspicuous?
Tom Nakashima wrote:
"(PeteCresswell)" wrote in message ... Per Jasper Janssen: But that's more vandalism than actual *theft* (although you can't tell the difference as a victim, of course). I assumed that it was people stealing bikes just to ride them home. That's how it was with cars when I lived in Hawaii - at the end of a school day, kids could steal your car, drive it home, and just abandon it there. The ones who did this tended to come from a specific section of town and the cops would just advise people to look there for their cars. -- PeteCresswell Sounds like kids having fun, but what if everybody did that? Another inconvenience. -tom Sounds like the predecessor to http://www.autoshare.com, except for the whole thing about it being illegal and stuff. -- Phil, Squid-in-Training |
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Making a College bike Inconspicuous?
Tom Nakashima wrote:
"Phil, Squid-in-Training" wrote in message news:3L2Ue.11996$Cc5.7045@lakeread06... Tom Nakashima wrote: "41" wrote in message oups.com... We should not have to go to such extremes and to ride garbage. What would car owners say if that's what they had to do to their cars, simply to make them workable transportation devices? Agree, if people didn't steal, we wouldn't have to go through this. -tom That's not the problem. Bicycles are still thought of as children's toys in America. A large percentage of the population only know what Huffys are, and have only heard of those $5000 bikes... To the average joe, bicycle theft is hardly a problem, so no solution needs to be formed. -- Phil, Squid-in-Training It shouldn't matter what the item is, why steal? Ask the thieves. Hearing about thefts and fraud in detail make my blood boil. -- Phil, Squid-in-Training |
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Making a College bike Inconspicuous?
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:10:32 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)"
wrote: Per Jasper Janssen: But that's more vandalism than actual *theft* (although you can't tell the difference as a victim, of course). I assumed that it was people stealing bikes just to ride them home. Hmm, probably some of that, too. I've never thrown someone else's bike in a canal, so I really can;t say what might drive someone there. Jasper |
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