You don’t want to know what I’d do to someone stealing my bike… Now if I can only find the guy who knocked my bike over and snapped my rear bike lever off… :\
Well, I’ll give you a hint…
“And Then I’ll do it some more. And when I’ve finished I’ll take all the little bits and I’ll… I’ll – I’ll jump on them! And I’ll carry on jumping on them until I get blisters… or I can think of something even more unpleasant to do”
There are times like these I’m glad I got one of those beefy Kryptonite (New York Evolution) chains to lock up my 3 bikes outside. (fourth, I keep my Schwinn Tango folding bike inside)
K’Tesh, I always make sure I lock my bike up in such a way that it can’t fall to the ground, normally I lock a D lock through the rear seat stay.
provided the lock is above the centre of the wheel (and if a chain, you wrap a few times to use up the length) then it shouldn’t be able to fall to the ground.
“I’ve been caught stealing;
once when I was 5…
I enjoy stealing.
It’s just as simple as that.
Well, it’s just a simple fact.
When I want something,
I don’t want to pay for it.
I walk right through the door.
Walk right through the door.
Hey all right! If I get by, it’s mine.
Mine all mine!”
Friend of mine had his 1991 Bridgestone RB-2 stolen during a group ride yesterday morning. A group of 21 riders had stopped for breakfast and he didn’t lock it up when they went inside. Theft took place in a “good” part of town.
Every store I worked for that was broken into, it was always BMX/Skate Park bikes and skateboards that were stolen. Never the $8000 road bike or even the cash drawer most of the time. There was one exception: at one shop, someone took the entire cash drawer, the LCD monitor for the P.O.S., a Campy Record Group, several pairs of Look pedals, assorted other bits….and a BMX bike.
Am I the only one to notice the lack of bars or accordion-gating on the window? I’m not trying to blame our stalwart heroes here, but common sense–and insurance companies–will make certain dictates.
With the exception of stores in downtown areas in some big cities and stores in “bad” parts of smaller towns, I’ve seldom seen bars or grating over shop windows or doors. Most places I’ve seen are content with alarm systems. (The Best Buy where my son works in an upscale shopping center does have steel shutters that they lower over the doors and windows at closing time, like the ones some stores use in shopping malls, but I’ve never noticed any of the other stores in that location using anything like that.)
Some stores may not have grates, but special hardened glass. Just recently I saw a mobile-phone-shop window display cracked on several spots. Looked like someone was trying to break the glass with a heavy hammer or something similar. The glass did crack (the impacts looked like circular spider webs of cracks), but did not fall out, so the thieves didn’t get in. I reckon such glass is quite expensive, but for shops with high-value goods AND a good insurance, it probably pays off.
I used to see a lot of places with thin foil tape around the edges of the windows. The foil formed part of a burglar-alarm circuit. If the glass were broken the foil would be torn and the circuit would be broken, setting off the alarm. These days I suspect the hardened glass you mentioned or motion-detector alarms (or both) are more common, though I do still see the foil once in awhile on older establishments.
GOOD LORD!!! That stuff is amazing! I’d like to put a piece of that in a building with a stack of money behind it, just to be able to film the would-be thieves trying to break through. When that guy trotted out the crowbar, I thought he was going to try to pry it out of the frame. No luck. Eventually it’d occur to someone just to drive a car throught it, I guess.
Somebody accidentally backed a car through the front window of my local bike shop; they had to replace the whole wall. Funny thing was, taking out the whole wall did NOT set off the burglar alarm. The security cameras DID, however, catch the license plate so the drunken idiots (who’d just left the bar across the street, hence the erratic driving) were caught…
Always look on the bright side…
You don’t want to know what I’d do to someone stealing my bike… Now if I can only find the guy who knocked my bike over and snapped my rear bike lever off… :\
I do want to know, unless you’re afraid the FBI is listening in on your plans …
Well, I’ll give you a hint…
“And Then I’ll do it some more. And when I’ve finished I’ll take all the little bits and I’ll… I’ll – I’ll jump on them! And I’ll carry on jumping on them until I get blisters… or I can think of something even more unpleasant to do”
I like to think big S. reserves a special circle in hell for bike thieves.
i’d make him buy the bike he’d tried to steal and add a few bucks to cover my own expenses. poor sucker.
My homebuilt and self designed recumbent that I built in 1998, was destroyed by a lady who knocked it down at a train station.
I did get 10,000 miles out of it.
Could ride it no hands.
There are times like these I’m glad I got one of those beefy Kryptonite (New York Evolution) chains to lock up my 3 bikes outside. (fourth, I keep my Schwinn Tango folding bike inside)
K’Tesh, I always make sure I lock my bike up in such a way that it can’t fall to the ground, normally I lock a D lock through the rear seat stay.
provided the lock is above the centre of the wheel (and if a chain, you wrap a few times to use up the length) then it shouldn’t be able to fall to the ground.
Thanks for the tips…
FYI, The early estimate for repair (due to the rare nature of the OEM brakes)… $250USD (Includes special order and labor costs).
Ouch! – Sorry to hear about your whos K’Tesh…
No earworm today… nothing funny aboout a crime….
Agree, nothing funny about the crime, however, the response can be hilarious (as long as it happens in a comic and nobody gets hurt)
Jane’s Addiction came to mind for me…
“I’ve been caught stealing;
once when I was 5…
I enjoy stealing.
It’s just as simple as that.
Well, it’s just a simple fact.
When I want something,
I don’t want to pay for it.
I walk right through the door.
Walk right through the door.
Hey all right! If I get by, it’s mine.
Mine all mine!”
Friend of mine had his 1991 Bridgestone RB-2 stolen during a group ride yesterday morning. A group of 21 riders had stopped for breakfast and he didn’t lock it up when they went inside. Theft took place in a “good” part of town.
Needless to say he’s learned a tough lesson.
So what got taken? One of the “Grow Bikes”?
Every store I worked for that was broken into, it was always BMX/Skate Park bikes and skateboards that were stolen. Never the $8000 road bike or even the cash drawer most of the time. There was one exception: at one shop, someone took the entire cash drawer, the LCD monitor for the P.O.S., a Campy Record Group, several pairs of Look pedals, assorted other bits….and a BMX bike.
Am I the only one to notice the lack of bars or accordion-gating on the window? I’m not trying to blame our stalwart heroes here, but common sense–and insurance companies–will make certain dictates.
That depends where you are. In my small midwestern town (like the kickstand) it’s not normal to have bars on your windows.
With the exception of stores in downtown areas in some big cities and stores in “bad” parts of smaller towns, I’ve seldom seen bars or grating over shop windows or doors. Most places I’ve seen are content with alarm systems. (The Best Buy where my son works in an upscale shopping center does have steel shutters that they lower over the doors and windows at closing time, like the ones some stores use in shopping malls, but I’ve never noticed any of the other stores in that location using anything like that.)
Some stores may not have grates, but special hardened glass. Just recently I saw a mobile-phone-shop window display cracked on several spots. Looked like someone was trying to break the glass with a heavy hammer or something similar. The glass did crack (the impacts looked like circular spider webs of cracks), but did not fall out, so the thieves didn’t get in. I reckon such glass is quite expensive, but for shops with high-value goods AND a good insurance, it probably pays off.
All right, an example.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRtDc2_SI40&feature=related One day, when I have all that money, I would like to put such windows to our house… 
That is just fugging awesome!!
I used to see a lot of places with thin foil tape around the edges of the windows. The foil formed part of a burglar-alarm circuit. If the glass were broken the foil would be torn and the circuit would be broken, setting off the alarm. These days I suspect the hardened glass you mentioned or motion-detector alarms (or both) are more common, though I do still see the foil once in awhile on older establishments.
GOOD LORD!!! That stuff is amazing! I’d like to put a piece of that in a building with a stack of money behind it, just to be able to film the would-be thieves trying to break through. When that guy trotted out the crowbar, I thought he was going to try to pry it out of the frame. No luck. Eventually it’d occur to someone just to drive a car throught it, I guess.
I think you stopped watching too soon… They tried a fork lift, and it failed too.
Somebody accidentally backed a car through the front window of my local bike shop; they had to replace the whole wall. Funny thing was, taking out the whole wall did NOT set off the burglar alarm. The security cameras DID, however, catch the license plate so the drunken idiots (who’d just left the bar across the street, hence the erratic driving) were caught…
steel bikes not steal bikes!
Like.
A friend’s bike shop was robbed once. The idiots went to the back of the store and took two fixies, and ignored the $5000 road bike right by the door.