stolen uni?

I ride on campus all the time, but I never lock anything up. I mean, it
wasn't a big deal when I was just riding my Torker cx, but I've got my
coker out now. I know a few people who've had bikes stolen, but I'm not
that concerned about my unis. But maybe I should be.

So, who has had a unicycle stolen? And, I suppose it's slim, but did
anyone get it back?


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sockmonster wrote:
I ride on campus all the time, but I never lock anything up. I mean, it
wasn't a big deal when I was just riding my Torker cx, but I've got my
coker out now. I know a few people who've had bikes stolen, but I'm not
that concerned about my unis. But maybe I should be.

So, who has had a unicycle stolen? And, I suppose it's slim, but did
anyone get it back?



Yep, I have had a uni stolen and know of several others who have also
had unis stolen. I know of only one case where a stolen uni was
recovered and that was because the thieves were pursued and they
ditched the uni during the pursuit.

I have suspicions that unicycles are stolen by non-riders who then
either throw the unicycle away or leave it unused somewhere. Lock up
your uni if leaving it in a public place unattended. It only takes one
idiot to think it would look cool in their house for it to go missing.

When I was a student I also had to suffer my unicycle being "kidnapped"
on a regular basis. A bunch of people in my hostel took to kidnapping
it and leaving it in unsual places (usually up a tree somewhere). I
was late for several classes because I was busy trying to find my
unicycle after it had been kidnapped.


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Don't leave anything unlocked on a college campus. Too many kids there
taking advantage of their new found freedom away from the parents to
steel things. There are professional thieves that target college
campuses too. Then there are also kids pulling pranks that involve
messing with your stuff.

Lock your stuff up. Lock up your dorm room door. Keep an eye on your
belongings while carrying them around.

I locked up my uni when I took it to campus. Never had any problems
with it being messed with.


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I leave my muni unlocked everywhere on campus. Ben PS leaves his 29er
unlocked everywhere, as well. Hell, I don't even bother bringing my
muni up to my room anymore (3rd floor). I just leave it leaned against
the wall next to the most used entrance to the dorm. I bring it up on
weekend nights, since I don't want drunk people riding it. But
honestly, I've been leaving it unlocked around campus for nearly a
semester now. I even forgot about it and accidentally left it unlocked
in the bike rack outside of the dining hall over thanksgiving break. I
have yet to see my unicycle even touched by a stranger.

Then again, this is a small school, and people are pretty good about
respecting eachothers' property. I've left my computer unattended in
lounges for up to a half-hour without any problems.


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when i bring my unis to school i lock them up because i don't even like
them getting scratched..


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I always bring my uni in with me or if they won't let me lock it up w/ a
small retractable cable lock. If someone really wanted to steel it, it
wouldn't be hard, but they couldn't just pick it up and walk away.
Soon I will get a better, and heavier cable lock.

gerblefranklin wrote:
I leave my muni unlocked everywhere on campus. Ben PS leaves his 29er
unlocked everywhere, as well. Hell, I don't even bother bringing my
muni up to my room anymore (3rd floor). I just leave it leaned against
the wall next to the most used entrance to the dorm. I bring it up on
weekend nights, since I don't want drunk people riding it. But
honestly, I've been leaving it unlocked around campus for nearly a
semester now. I even forgot about it and accidentally left it unlocked
in the bike rack outside of the dining hall over thanksgiving break. I
have yet to see my unicycle even touched by a stranger.

Then again, this is a small school, and people are pretty good about
respecting eachothers' property. I've left my computer unattended in
lounges for up to a half-hour without any problems.


If you keep that up somethings going to wind up missing.


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Okay, so I am not in college anymore... but I will tell you a story.

A number of years ago, I went back to school and was in fact a couple
of years older then than the usual student. I had an all-steel rigid
hardtail mountain bike with me. I had three roommates at the time, so
keeping the bike inside the rooms was not really an option. I had my
bike locked up outside, but at one point I came out to find that
someone had stolen the bar-ends. Now this was not during the current
decade, and there was certainly not a widespread mountain bike
community at the time, but someone had made it a point to come up to my
bike right outside of the dorm with an allen wrench and make off with
the bar-ends and I forget what else.

The fact is that if you leave anything sitting there unsecured someone
will walk off with it at some point. I was not at a huge public campus.
Bikes and other items are stolen at alarming rates on college campuses,
so I would just suggest that you do your best to discourage it. Like
someone said above, the stuff might likely be tossed out by the person
soon after, but you might be surprised at the degree to which such
things happen. Add into the mixture the kid away on his own for the
first time, alcohol induced weirdness, etc. and your uni will be
grabbed sooner or later.


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I just never let go of mine, it even sleeps with me, well that is when
my g/f is gone but even then its hard to choose . Nah but you should
lock it up, the most common reason people steal unicycles is that they
usually find them very "unique" something fun to try, but they dont
know where to get one themselves...


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http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55339

There's my story.


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Ohh man that sux, the pic there looks like a dedicated memory :'(


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abbabibble wrote:
Cody bent his koxx.
he was working it pretty hard.



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