I curse you *** UPDATE ***

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
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>
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  • Reply 1 of 41
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member


    insurance?
  • Reply 2 of 41
    Probably the same 8astard that stole my Gary Fisher full bouncer..... although that was North London.



    Kill them all!!! <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />
  • Reply 3 of 41
    Insurance? Mais non.



    Thank-you for your support. Crustibooga, I wish persistent dental problems on the BASTARDS who stole your beautiful machine.
  • Reply 4 of 41
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    They once stole my beautiful revamped 1940s bicycle the first day after... well revamping it. I walked around with a 40 cm machete (picked up in Kenya) for days, hoping for a chance to try it out on someone driving my bike. Alas, I never saw the beauty again. I was depressed for days. I hope all bicycle thiefs have thier balls chewed off by gruesome dogs in the afterlife. Your thiefs too, Hassan. I do feel your pain.
  • Reply 5 of 41
    Sorry.

    I don't do that anymore.



    I've quit the spell-biz long ago.
  • Reply 6 of 41
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    Here in the states, campuses are where bikes are stolen the most, and when they are stolen by someone who does this for a living, they are usually parted out, especially mountain bikes which break easily. There is a whole network of underground parts. But hassan, I don't know much about biking in the UK but here hybrids are not that common unless you are in the big city, and either way it wouldn't make much sense to part it out. The person may try and sell it whole and that's not too smart. He may be caught. Have you called the police?
  • Reply 7 of 41
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    the man who did this to you, hassan, will die tonight at 8 in madison square garden. be there !
  • Reply 8 of 41
    Outsider, bike theft is a full-blown industry in cities in the UK (as I expect it is in the States too.) My bike wasn't really the kind of bike to get parted out because it's more valuable with all its flashy components. I expect it's on the motorway in the back of white van en route to Birmingham or Manchester as I write this.



    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.
  • Reply 9 of 41
    roborobo Posts: 469member
    That really sucks. I know how you feel.



    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 &lt;-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
  • Reply 10 of 41
    stunnedstunned Posts: 1,096member
    I feel for u.



    May the culprits bootch up their next job and get caught!
  • Reply 11 of 41
    bellebelle Posts: 1,574member
    [quote]Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah:

    <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?
  • Reply 12 of 41
    [quote]Originally posted by Belle:

    <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>
  • Reply 13 of 41
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    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.



    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.
  • Reply 14 of 41
    haraldharald Posts: 2,152member
    [quote]Originally posted by Brad:

    <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 ...
  • Reply 15 of 41
    powerdocpowerdoc Posts: 8,123member
    [quote]Originally posted by Immanuel Goldstein:

    <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
  • Reply 16 of 41
    [quote]Originally posted by Harald:

    <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.
  • Reply 17 of 41
    I will pray that this scumbag is forced to spend an eternity porking Margaret Thatcher doggie style whilst watching 1980s American indoor soccer league matches on a giant tele.
  • Reply 18 of 41
    [quote]Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah:

    <strong>Stolen last night in East London.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Whereabouts exactly?
  • Reply 19 of 41
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    [quote]Originally posted by Kickaha:

    <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.
  • Reply 20 of 41
    They got through THIS









    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.
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