I curse you *** UPDATE ***
Cannondale hybrid bicycle, main means of transport, hydraulic brakes, Shimano downhill pedals, silver, black rims and spokes, beautiful, beautiful object.
Stolen last night in East London.
Please take a moment to think ill of the person who did this. Wish them something bad.
Thank-you.
[ 12-16-2002: Message edited by: Hassan i Sabbah ]</p>
Stolen last night in East London.
Please take a moment to think ill of the person who did this. Wish them something bad.
Thank-you.
[ 12-16-2002: Message edited by: Hassan i Sabbah ]</p>
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insurance?
Kill them all!!! <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />
Thank-you for your support. Crustibooga, I wish persistent dental problems on the BASTARDS who stole your beautiful machine.
I don't do that anymore.
I've quit the spell-biz long ago.
My lock was a superdooper German-made Abus and the only way to get through it was with an angle grinder. It was angle ground and wheeled into the bag of afore-mentioned white van in a matter of minutes.
But I've called the police and registered the serial number. You never know.
I'm grieving.
Unfortunately (in response to Paul's question) insurance companies rarely agree to cover nice bikes, because they are expensive and are stolen so frequently. My bike, a very tricked out Specialized Stumpjumper, was worth about $2000 in it's heyday (around 1995), but i could only get it insured to about $300 for a reasonable rate.
However, i do have a stolen bike story from a friend, that might give you hope:
This happened in Vancouver and UBC (U of British Columbia), which is sort of out on a promontory away from the downtown area. Anyway, he had a pretty nice bike (very small diamondback frame (he's short), a lot of Syncros components, and WHITE PANARACER TIRES <-the tires come in to the story) that he used to commute from West Vancouver to UBC with each day in the summer. One day he came out of the physics building to find bits of his lock on the ground, and his bike gone. Anyway, he was pretty upset, knowing that stolen bikes are rarely found. Nonetheless, he reported it to the campus security, who suggested he go downtown right away and scour the pawn shops.. they told him a lot of bike thefts on campus were done by individual heroin addicts, not organized groups, who would come to UBC to steal a flashy bike, ride it downtown, sell it to a pawn shop for $40 or so, and go get their smack fix for the afternoon.
So he took a bus downtown, and went to every pawnshop and shady bike dealer he could find, but after 5 hours, he'd found nothing. It was getting dark, and, very depressed, he was standing waiting for the bus to go home. He happend to look up the Georgia street to see if the bus was approaching, and there, in the distance, was a figure riding a small framed mountain bike with white tires. He ran up th street, but the rider was some blocks away and disappeared. After running around for a while, he gave up a second time, and returned to the bus stop. Just as his bus was approaching, a 13-14 year old kid rode RIGHT PAST HIM on his bike! He immediately yelled at the kid to stop, and grabbed the bike. The kid claimed he'd just paid $100 for it (probably true) but when my friend threatened to call the police, the kid let my friend have the bike back. The kid got on the bus, and my friend rode home
Happy ending.
So don't give up hope yet (though the way your lock was cut suggests a more professional job )
-robo
May the culprits bootch up their next job and get caught!
<strong>Cannondale hybrid bicycle, main means of transport, hydraulic brakes, Shimano downhill pedals, silver, black rims and spokes, beautiful, beautiful object.
Stolen last night in East London.</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's terrible. I know for a lot of people their bicycles have a personality - they've been modified and maintained over long periods of time.
One thing, though. I don't mean to be deliberately fractious, but is it entirely wise to be parking up something that's so obviously of value in a major metropolis, even if you do have a serious lock?
<strong>I don't mean to be deliberately fractious, but is it entirely wise to be parking up something that's so obviously of value in a major metropolis, even if you do have a serious lock?</strong><hr></blockquote>Curse you, Belle! I was about to ask that very question!
At university it is common knowledge that if you don't have one of those steel U-locks that your bike will be stolen.
Something like this:
The good, large locks like this will cost about US$30 or more, but it's well worth the investment to keep your bike safe.
[ 12-13-2002: Message edited by: Brad ]</p>
1995 Ducati 900SS, stolen from behind my house, where it was locked, in Salt Lake City, UT.
It had 83 miles on it.
Found the guy, handed him to the SLC police on a silver platter... they dropped the case when the detective found out I wasn't Mormon. I moved to another state a couple of months later.
<strong>Curse you, Belle! I was about to ask that very question!
At university it is common knowledge that if you don't have one of those steel U-locks that your bike will be stolen.
Something like this:
The good, large locks like this will cost about US$30 or more, but it's well worth the investment to keep your bike safe.
[ 12-13-2002: Message edited by: Brad ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
Brad-o,
A lock like that is known as a "1 minute D" in London as that's how long they last! The Abus lock Hassan was using was probably the sort of thing you see connected to motorbikes or scooters.
My sob story: Specialized RockHopper just spent ?350 on a service and all the rest of it, locked down with an ?80 MOFO lock ... seeeeeeeeeeeeeee ya ...
<strong> «J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit.»
Les Tontons Flingueurs
a film by Georges Lautner
dialogues by Michel Audiard
</strong><hr></blockquote>
Nice Sig Immanuel
<strong>A lock like that is known as a "1 minute D" in London as that's how long they last!</strong><hr></blockquote>Aaahh, my mistake. Those locks work fine for us on campus. I had no idea bike theft was such a common problem up there and that even these sturdy locks are so regularly broken.
<strong>Stolen last night in East London.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Whereabouts exactly?
<strong>I'll see your bike, and raise you.
1995 Ducati 900SS, stolen from behind my house, where it was locked, in Salt Lake City, UT.
It had 83 miles on it.</strong><hr></blockquote>
A Ducati!! The ultimate for many. You are, hands-down, the winner of this league of fücked. I guess I'd actually really KILL that guy.
in Hoxton.
Kickaha, I feel for you.
Colander, THAT's what I'm talking about.
Belle, exactly. It had quite an unusual frame, I had narrow tyres on it, the pedals cost £60, the saddle was a prostate-protecting long distance job and I LOVED that bicycle: it was like my car. Every day I rode it someone told me it was a nice bike.
What was I thinking.