robin-d

this thread is closure for my last two stolen steeds. i wish we had gone on more adventures.

edit: i also wish i had locked them after that last sunset ride with the significant other... /sigh.



not sure if this is allowed. but others are welcome to commiserate/post their poached ponies and reminisce of the best and blurst of times with their beloved bicycles..

Plimogz

This makes me sad.

Also, paranoid.

frankenmike 

My magenta and mint green 1989 stumpjumper, customized for commuting, gone but not forgotten. Some crackhead in Albuquerque scored a sweet ride...

AlmostTrick

A bunny! What's his/her name? Sorry about the bikes. Some people aren't as nice as bunnies.

kuroba

The SO put up this bike for a friend to commute to work. It had been living in our backyard for years. Sadly it didn't last a month with him before it got stolen Fortunately we (SO and I) have never had our bikes stolen.

locolobo13 

Sorry to hear that. Scan your local Craigslist. They might show up in a month or two.

rmfnla

When I wrenched in Santa Barbara one of our guys' Ritchey road bike got stolen.

A few days later a couple of us we were riding through town and saw a kid riding it, so we chased him down and grabbed the bike.

Can't tell you how happy our buddy was to get his bike back, but I'm sure you can imagine...

rmfnla

I once had a bunny (also in Santa Barbara).

He would thump the floor whenever I let the air out of a tire; not sure what he thought that sound was...

DiabloScott

Cool story - many years ago I bought a used mountain bike - the first MTB I ever had, it was a Marin something or other. After only a couple weeks I left it on my car's roof rack over night and it got stolen. Insurance company bought me a BRAND NEW mountain bike for the cost of my deductible. A few weeks later I get a call from the cops and they had stopped a guy for something and ran the serial number on his bike and it came up stolen and it was MINE. Cops gave me back the bike, I called the insurance company and they wanted it because they owned it now... but I had a friend at work who wanted to buy it so he got it really cheap - just made them an offer over the phone (same call). Friend turned it into a commuter with all kinds of accessories and after a couple weeks, somebody stole it FROM HIM! Actually cut his lock off from the parking rack at our office building. He called his insurance company and they bought HIM a brand new mountain bike for the cost of his deductible. So that one used MTB wound up gifting two of us new MTBs that were both a lot nicer.

More recently, this commute bike was stolen from my house while I was unable to ride because of an injury - I suspect my dirtbag neighbor's dirtbag son and his friends. I really miss this bike - watched CraigsList for months without a hit.

indyfabz

It's a danger warning response. My speculation is that their brains are hard wired at birth to react to the hiss of a snake. The air being let out of the tires may be triggering that instinct. Mt cat is very afraid of the sound.

rmfnla

That's exactly what I thought as well...

indyfabz

I never realized how some rabbits can make nice house pets until I started dating a girl who had one. He would just hop around the apartment and was perfectly litter trained. In the mornings, when he was most active and energetic, he would often pull off massive running jumps with twists, like a snowboarder in the X Games. Very fun to watch. If I ever had one as a pet I would want a Flemish Giant.

ptempel

I am saddened for your loss. Fortunately, I have to go way back to my childhood to remember a similar experience. Had a red bike with a bannana seat and high handlebars stolen from under a staircase in an apartment building. My fault for not locking it up as well.

mr geeker

In 2014 I gad two bikes stolen about 3 months apart, a purple fade to blue trek 830 and a grey trek 7100. The 830 I left out unchained on my back porch over night and the 7100 was outside unchained all of maybe 45 minutes, again on my back porch. That's how I ended up with my $60 used huffy.

Lanovran

Except that snakes don't audibly hiss when they're looking to find a meal (it would make it awfully hard to ambush prey, wouldn't it?). I doubt it has anything to do with any specific animal noise, but rather just an unknown scary sound that could potentially mean danger to lil' Mr. Fluffy.

Lanovran

The only bike I've ever had stolen (knock on wood) was my first decent bike-shop bike, and an Xmas gift from my parents, to boot. It was a black-and-yellow 2005 Trek 820 - as cheap and entry-level as Trek gets, but it was the nicest bike I'd ever had at the time - and it was my primary transportation. I headed out early one morning to find that it had been stolen from the bike rack just outside of my dorm at college. I learned an important lesson about cheap cable locks that day (i.e., they suck). It wasn't expensive or amazing in any way, but it was good to me for a year-and-a-half of getting around campus. I got a deal on a Trek 4300 to replace it, but it never rode quite as well as that 820 did.

Here it is after it had snowed the night before...

AlmostTrick

I too have been fortunate to not have ever had a bike stolen from me. Came close when I was a little kid though. I parked my stingray in front of the candy store where two "big" kids were sitting. They were still there when I came out a few minutes later, but my bike was gone. Something made me look behind the small store, and there my bike was! I jumped on and got the heck outta there as quickly as I could! Learned myself a lesson that day.

robin-d

His name is Machiatto.. he's 11 this year I think. Was a stray my SO found in her apartment parking lot sometime after Easter many years ago.

AlmostTrick

That is so sweet of her to take him in and give him a nice home. Over the years, my wife and I have adopted 2 older buns, and rescued one baby that someone released. The plan was to find him a good home, but we missed that window... after two weeks or so it became apparent he wasn't going anywhere!

PatrickGSR94

Never had a bike stolen so far *knock on fake wood* but when I was a kid I left my bike on its kickstand out in the front yard at my grandparents' house one day. My grandmother hid it, to try to teach me a lesson that it COULD get stolen if I leave it out like that. I think I got the picture.

My dad had his bike stolen from the front yard (at that same house, I think) when he was a kid in the 1950's/60's.

BarryWC

My first bike was a three speed "English racer", as it was called in the '50s in central Texas, that my Dad had ordered and had shipped over by our British relatives. I loved that bike, a Raleigh as I remember, and was the only one like it the small town I grew up in. Fast forward five years, and we moved to the Texas coast. Most of our belongings were stored while we looked for a house. You can guess what happened then. The warehouse was broken into, and the bike was stolen, along with my Lionel Electric Train set. Wish I had that bike today...

no motor?

I haven't had any stolen, but I did have a couple of "big kids" give me grief about locking my bike up before I went into a store one day. The bike was still there when I got back. I abandoned my old 10 speed that I had from junior high until after college somewhere. I think it was the train station and it took a while for someone to take it.

PatrickGSR94

Oh dang I have one of those, too, that my dad got for Christmas in about 1956 or so.

rmfnla

We called them English Racers in Florida, too; perhaps it's a southern thing...

no motor?

I grew up in Illinois in the 60's and that's what I remember them being called too. My grandfather was English (and a bicyclist) and I wasn't sure at first if people were referring to his bicycle or my grandfather's bicycle.