A friend had her bike stolen off her car the other day.....

Her Santa Cruze was locked down to the top of her car with a Yakima
Steelhead, walked inside her house to grab a couple more things before
the ride. Thieves cut the crossbars and stole the bike, still locked to
the rack! In under 5 min!

No bike is safe on a car rack.

-Nate

Llatikcuf wrote:
Her Santa Cruze was locked down to the top of her car with a Yakima
Steelhead, walked inside her house to grab a couple more things before
the ride. Thieves cut the crossbars and stole the bike, still locked
to the rack! In under 5 min!

What kind of neighborhood was this in???

No bike is safe on a car rack.

-Nate

The president of our cycling club on campus here had her bike stolen, but I
don't think it was locked down. One listserv message and one day later, it
was spotted near the campus hub... what kind of idiot would take a $4k bike
and then leave it in plain view everywhere?

Anyways, the president came by the shop, got our bolt cutters, and promptly
snipped it off. It was in perfect condition.
--
Phil, Squid-in-Training

What kind of idiot would have a $4k bike on any campus in the first
place.

I've had 3 bikes stolen from campus so far. All locked with cable
locks. The last one was a $5.38 Huffy. The lock cost more. The
average bike thief doesn't care how much it cost, just how easy it is
to take.

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:08:49 -0500, "Phil, Squid-in-Training"
scribbled:

Llatikcuf wrote:
Her Santa Cruze was locked down to the top of her car with a Yakima
Steelhead, walked inside her house to grab a couple more things before
the ride. Thieves cut the crossbars and stole the bike, still locked
to the rack! In under 5 min!

What kind of neighborhood was this in???

No bike is safe on a car rack.

-Nate

The president of our cycling club on campus here had her bike stolen, but I
don't think it was locked down. One listserv message and one day later, it
was spotted near the campus hub... what kind of idiot would take a $4k bike
and then leave it in plain view everywhere?

Anyways, the president came by the shop, got our bolt cutters, and promptly
snipped it off. It was in perfect condition.

Something similar happened at a business near where I live a while
back. Was cabled to a rack, thieves cut the cable and the straps that
hold the wheels to the gutter.

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=47172

-Slash
--
"Ebert Victorious"
-The Onion

wrote:
What kind of idiot would have a $4k bike on any campus in the first
place.

I've had 3 bikes stolen from campus so far. All locked with cable
locks. The last one was a $5.38 Huffy. The lock cost more. The
average bike thief doesn't care how much it cost, just how easy it is
to take.

At the University of Utah, campus police reported over 40 bikes were
stolen in the first month of Fall semester. I never heard the total
number for the semester.

-Nate

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wrote:
What kind of idiot would have a $4k bike on any campus in the first
place.

I've had 3 bikes stolen from campus so far. All locked with cable
locks. The last one was a $5.38 Huffy. The lock cost more. The
average bike thief doesn't care how much it cost, just how easy it is
to take.

At the University of Utah, campus police reported over 40 bikes were
stolen in the first month of Fall semester. I never heard the total
number for the semester.

-Nate

Looks as though at least 40 people were quickly, effectively educated at
that university. Bravo.
--
Sandy
Verneuil-sur-Seine
*******

La vie, c'est comme une bicyclette,
il faut avancer pour ne pas perdre l'équilibre.
-- Einstein, A.

Phil, Squid-in-Training wrote:
Llatikcuf wrote:
Her Santa Cruze was locked down to the top of her car with a Yakima
Steelhead, walked inside her house to grab a couple more things before
the ride. Thieves cut the crossbars and stole the bike, still locked
to the rack! In under 5 min!

What kind of neighborhood was this in???

Good neighborhood, on the good side of town.

No bike is safe on a car rack.

-Nate

The president of our cycling club on campus here had her bike stolen, but I
don't think it was locked down. One listserv message and one day later, it
was spotted near the campus hub... what kind of idiot would take a $4k bike
and then leave it in plain view everywhere?


What kind of idiot would take a $4k bike and lock it up on campus?

-nate

Llatikcuf wrote:
Phil, Squid-in-Training wrote:
Llatikcuf wrote:
Her Santa Cruze was locked down to the top of her car with a Yakima
Steelhead, walked inside her house to grab a couple more things
before the ride. Thieves cut the crossbars and stole the bike,
still locked to the rack! In under 5 min!

What kind of neighborhood was this in???

Good neighborhood, on the good side of town.

Of course, why would a thief look on the other side of town. :^(

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:44:27 -0500, "Michael Dart"
wrote:

Llatikcuf wrote:
Phil, Squid-in-Training wrote:
Llatikcuf wrote:
Her Santa Cruze was locked down to the top of her car with a Yakima
Steelhead, walked inside her house to grab a couple more things
before the ride. Thieves cut the crossbars and stole the bike,
still locked to the rack! In under 5 min!

What kind of neighborhood was this in???

Good neighborhood, on the good side of town.

Of course, why would a thief look on the other side of town. :^(

Interviewer: "Whay do you rob banks?"

Clyde Barrow: "Because that's where the money is."

I will note that in my most recent survey of the bikes visible in the
racks on the Rice University campus, the number of non-X-mart units
was getting close to zero. I saw a couple of low-end name-brands, but
the rest were a mix of Next, Magna, Roadmaster, Vertical, Huffy and
the like. There were also a number of snipped cable locks still
wrapped around the bars of a couple of the racks. Very few bikes were
secured with cables this year; the U-lock has made a resurgence.

One Roadmaster that has not changed position in four years was still
secured to its rack with an old tubular-key U-lock. The tires have
been flat since I first saw it, and they're now deterioratd to the
point that they couldn't be inflated without blowing out. I believe
that its continued presence is due in some part to its being directly
outside the window of a building where there are people present pretty
much 24/7. (And, of course, it's a Roadmaster with obviously flat
tires.)
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You a Ute too?

Yup, I have a few years left though. Too much time on the bike, not
enough time in class.

Soon to be ex-student of the UoU SJQ CoL

Good luck! I know quite a few people in that profession. In fact I know
a lot of people who work at RQN.

-Nate