Strange experience

Michael Warner said:

I still don't know whether it was an honest mistake (although 10pm is
very late to leave a bike around) or a plan to come back at 3am and strip
my bike (in which case why leave another bike?). Has this every happened
to anyone else?

Happend to me at least twice on Brunswick St. my usual guess is a
first year uni-student type who's had a couple to many drink before
heading out for the night

J

Never had it happen to me but I noticed here at ANU the other day that
someone had gone around to all the bikes left locked up overnight and turned
them all upside down! An interesting site. But more to the point it
indicates that there are aquite a few people around that have little regard
for their bikes and will leave them for days, weeks or even years just
locked up in a public place.

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Michael Warner said:

I still don't know whether it was an honest mistake (although 10pm is
very late to leave a bike around) or a plan to come back at 3am and

strip

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my bike (in which case why leave another bike?). Has this every happened
to anyone else?

Happend to me at least twice on Brunswick St. my usual guess is a
first year uni-student type who's had a couple to many drink before
heading out for the night

J

Bean Long said:

Never had it happen to me but I noticed here at ANU the other day that
someone had gone around to all the bikes left locked up overnight and turned
them all upside down! An interesting site. But more to the point it
indicates that there are aquite a few people around that have little regard
for their bikes and will leave them for days, weeks or even years just
locked up in a public place.

Guaranteed if you found out who it was and left him/her chained upside
down on to a bike rail overnight, then you'd get in trouble.

I doubt the [censored](s) would do it again though! :-)

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Bean Long said:

Never had it happen to me but I noticed here at ANU the other day that
someone had gone around to all the bikes left locked up overnight and turned
them all upside down! An interesting site. But more to the point it
indicates that there are aquite a few people around that have little regard
for their bikes and will leave them for days, weeks or even years just
locked up in a public place.

at the corner near my studio there's a abandoned [censored]-bike locked to a post. Its been there since xmas! Juxtaposes the adjacent Kozminsky's Jewellery store quite well...

(for feck's sake dont let my wif know I work next to Kozminskys or there goes the bikeporn budget!!!)

flyingdutch said:

at the corner near my studio there's a abandoned [censored]-bike locked to a post. Its been there since xmas! Juxtaposes the adjacent Kozminsky's Jewellery store quite well...

(for feck's sake dont let my wif know I work next to Kozminskys or there goes the bikeporn budget!!!)

Over here you just steal the wheels and then kick the frame in until it's useless.. Brilliant!!

hippy
"If diamonds are a girl's best friend, what's that say about girls?"

Thinking about this & how I would react faced with this situation, I most likely would make my way home, only to return with cutting tools. 😠

This sort of vengeful total disregard for other peoples personal property shouldn’t be condoned I know, but I find that over–the-top knee jerk reactions to what might otherwise have been a absent-minded, innocent mistake can reinforce the importance of taking due care in such a circumstance later on.

Fire & brimstone!

PS: I wouldn’t worry about being stopped by the general public, even if the police is called I still have a 10/15min window at least (“officer a bicycle is being stolen!!” mobilise all units) . Besides who’s to say that’s not my own lock etc etc …….

Marx SS said:

Thinking about this & how I would react faced with this situation, I most likely would make my way home, only to return with cutting tools. 😠

This sort of vengeful total disregard for other peoples personal property shouldn’t be condoned I know, but I find that over–the-top knee jerk reactions to what might otherwise have been a absent-minded, innocent mistake can reinforce the importance of taking due care in such a circumstance later on.

I would've chopped the fscker's lock without hesitation..

hippy

Joel Mayes said:

Michael Warner said:

I still don't know whether it was an honest mistake (although 10pm is
very late to leave a bike around) or a plan to come back at 3am and strip
my bike (in which case why leave another bike?). Has this every happened
to anyone else?

Happend to me at least twice on Brunswick St. my usual guess is a
first year uni-student type who's had a couple to many drink before
heading out for the night

J

Reminds me of something naughty I did after a drunken Postgraduate
Cocktail Party at UWA. We were walking through one of the colleges
and came across lots of bikes locked up. I boasted I could pick most
of the combination locks. No one believed me so I swapped the locks
around on about 6 bikes. Umm ahh...

DeF

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Michael Warner said:

I locked my trundlie (cheaper road bike) to the rail provided outside
the Central Market today to do my shopping, as usual, but when I
came back someone had put their bike (a really crappy old tractor)
opposite mine, and looped their cable lock around /both/ bikes. Aargh!

Although you say it was a cheap bike, I've heard of this being done on
better bikes to prepare them for being knicked. The idea is that the would
be thief sees a bike he/she likes the look of, sticks their own lock on
very quickly then returns later on when they can nick it at their leisure
(quieter period or equipped with bigger tools/van).

Locking somebody else's bike is also one way of getting the message across
that your bike shouldn't be locked there (though clearly not in your case).
Kind of like wheel clamping a car.

Graeme

(for feck's sake dont let my wif know I work next to Kozminskys or there goes the bikeporn budget!!!)
hahaha

How about that other purple heap of junk that is locked up out the front of Transport bar at Fed Square. It used to have one flat tyre, now it has two. It has been there for over a year as it was there well before last years Ride to work day..

coowoowoo said:

(for feck's sake dont let my wif know I work next to Kozminskys or there goes the bikeporn budget!!!)
hahaha

How about that other purple heap of junk that is locked up out the front of Transport bar at Fed Square. It used to have one flat tyre, now it has two. It has been there for over a year as it was there well before last years Ride to work day..

There was another [censored] + helmet locked up on Queens Parade in Clifton Hill outside the CBA years ago. Over several months it gradually dissolved into it's base components & disappeared. Kinda sad.

cfsmtb said:

There was another [censored] + helmet locked up on Queens Parade in Clifton Hill outside the CBA years ago. Over several months it gradually dissolved into it's base components & disappeared. Kinda sad.

Now there would be an interesting bit of time-lapse photography....

I know that one in Fed Sq. Always baffled me as to why you'd lock it up and leave it. At least keep the lock and let someone else use the bike!

Always baffled me as to why you'd lock it up and leave it. At least keep the lock and let someone else use the bike![/QUOTE]

Yes, i have wondered about that. I mean, if you were going to dump it, you would just leave it there and not worry about locking it. I am keeping me eye on it to see just how long it will take someone to cut the lock and get rid of it.

Maybe a race could be in order. Bike rotting or council removing it?
What comes first?

coowoowoo said:

(for feck's sake dont let my wif know I work next to Kozminskys or there goes the bikeporn budget!!!)
hahaha

How about that other purple heap of junk that is locked up out the front of Transport bar at Fed Square. It used to have one flat tyre, now it has two. It has been there for over a year as it was there well before last years Ride to work day..

there's 2 on victoria st, just west of Burnley that has a badly bent wheel, locked to apost. been there for weeks now...

i can feel a photo-essay coming on. saw a cool one recently on shoes hanging from powerlines 😄

I vote: Bike rotting. (unless the queen plans a visit).

flyingdutch said:

there's 2 on victoria st, just west of Burnley that has a badly bent wheel, locked to apost. been there for weeks now...

i can feel a photo-essay coming on. saw a cool one recently on shoes hanging from powerlines 😄

Read that article.. its quite good.
On the same issue, has anyone seen "slim" ,(thats what i call him)? He was a full grown motherf**cker of a possum that took on a powerline and lost. He hangs off the powerline at the back of carlisle st balaclava coles.
He has been there for 4 years now. Slowly he is down to pure hide and doesnt seem to be disintergrating anymore. Now there would be a photo essay.

apparently its a common UK-bike-theft-technique...

or you could do this!

66.154.55.214pics.plOpen ↗

flyingdutch said:

there's 2 on victoria st, just west of Burnley that has a badly bent wheel, locked to apost. been there for weeks now...

i can feel a photo-essay coming on. saw a cool one recently on shoes hanging from powerlines 😄

speaking of fed sq, photo essays and crappy bikes, I caught this short film at fed sq the other day about Deadly Treadlies - funky community bike-related program in Alice Springs:

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great stuff...

flyingdutch said:

apparently its a common UK-bike-theft-technique...

or you could do this!

66.154.55.214pics.plOpen ↗

hilarious....just burst out laughing at that site...