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

[Llatikcuf]

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

 

[Phil, Squid-in-Training]

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

 

[[email protected]]

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.

 

[Slash]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:08:49 -0500, "Phil, Squid-in-Training"
<[email protected]> 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

 

[Llatikcuf]

[email protected] 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

 

[Sandy]

Dans le message de
news:[email protected],
Llatikcuf <[email protected]> a réfléchi, et puis a déclaré :
> [email protected] 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.

 

[Llatikcuf]

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

 

[Michael Dart]

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. :^(

 

[SYJ]

---snip---
>
> 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


You a Ute too?

In a more topical area, Several years ago, someone destroyed a Manitou
Mach 5 fork trying to rip my bike off my locked Thule roof rack in
Vegas. Lucky for me, the fork was one of the recalled units, and since
I worked at a shop, Answer told me not to bother with sending the
(destroyed) sliders in.

Awhile later, someone succeeded in stealing a different bike sporting
the replacement fork from a different locked Thule rack at a different
location in Vegas. Judging from the amount of material left on my
roof, they trashed the fork dropouts in doing so (they apparently
worked the bike back & forth in the locked rack enough to deform the
dropouts)

SYJ
Soon to be ex-student of the UoU SJQ CoL

 

[Werehatrack]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:44:27 -0500, "Michael Dart"
<[email protected]> 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.)
--
Typoes are a feature, not a bug.
Some gardening required to reply via email.
Words processed in a facility that contains nuts.

 

[Llatikcuf]

> 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

 

[G.T.]

"SYJ" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
>
> Awhile later, someone succeeded in stealing a different bike sporting
> the replacement fork from a different locked Thule rack at a different
> location in Vegas. Judging from the amount of material left on my
> roof, they trashed the fork dropouts in doing so (they apparently
> worked the bike back & forth in the locked rack enough to deform the
> dropouts)
>

Yep, I've had a bike locked in a Yakima Steelhead works it way out after 2
days of driving, 1/2 a day of which was on bumpy roads. The bike slammed
into the side of my Cherokee hanging on by just the rear strap. We were in
the middle of creepy forest in northern California and I thought Big Foot
had just attacked us.

The fork had lawyer lips so it really makes me wonder about those disk brake
ejections.

Greg

 

[RonSonic]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:08:49 -0500, "Phil, Squid-in-Training"
<[email protected]> 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???
>
>> 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?

Obviously an idiot who had no idea it was a $4K bike, or perhaps that such a
thing existed.

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

Good thing she got it before the tires went low and the rims were ruint by a
mook who couldn't figure out how to get air into a presta stem.

Ron

 

[Brian Huntley]

Werehatrack wrote:
> Interviewer: "Whay do you rob banks?"
>
> Clyde Barrow: "Because that's where the money is."

Willie Sutton, actually. One of the greats.

http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/sutton/sutton.htm

 

[Phil, Squid-in-Training]

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

Who said it was on campus?

> 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.

Average. We have some smarter than the average idiot ones here...

--
Phil, Squid-in-Training

 

[Phil, Squid-in-Training]

Llatikcuf wrote:
> [email protected] 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.

Two months ago, the count was up to 62 here at the University of Florida.
Sixty-two! A month later, they caught a priest who had 312 stolen bikes
(amongst lawn mowers, big screen TVs, xboxes, washer/dryers) in his
possession at his rented home near our bike shop. He stole some of our
shop's wheels, tubes, and other easily-yanked items when our back gate was
open. That month had a LOT of repairs come in.

--
Phil, Squid-in-Training

 

[Phil, Squid-in-Training]

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.

Must've been people cruising for an easy steal.

>>> 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?

Who said it was on campus? You need to read more carefully.

--
Phil, Squid-in-Training

 

[Matt O'Toole]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:39:45 -0800, Brian Huntley wrote:

>
> Werehatrack wrote:
>> Interviewer: "Whay do you rob banks?"
>>
>> Clyde Barrow: "Because that's where the money is."
>
> Willie Sutton, actually. One of the greats.
>
> http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/sutton/sutton.htm

My grandfather was a prison warden in Philadelphia in the 40s, and Slick
Willie was one of his residents. My grandfather was not on duty when
Willie & Co. escaped! I heard many Slick Willie stories as a child.

Matt O.

 

[SYJ]

Llatikcuf wrote:
> > You a Ute too?
>
> Yup, I have a few years left though. Too much time on the bike, not
> enough time in class.

Story of my life (add skis to the mix, if you want to be thorough). I
guess that's why I'm still in school at age 31.
>
> > 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

Thanks. Managed to finagle my way into a pretty decent non-firm
gig...Now I just need to sweat the bar. RQN's a great place, but I
don't have the credentials (religious or academic) to work in 'God's
Law Firm' (as a few friends, one of whom clerked at Ray Quinney, call
it).

SYJ

 

[Glenn Dowdy]

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> 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.
>
I had two rules for parking a bike at the UW: 1, use _two_ u-locks, and 2,
always park next to a better bike.

Glenn D.