Kedosto

Some interesting stuff. Not making an endorsement of the channel, but it was fed to me by the Almighty Algorithm.

Ttom

I like it, makes me think I should look at this perhaps I could be and advocate in my area, I mean it would be great to recover your stolen bike wouldn't it?

LarrySellerz

I’ve had atleast 10 bikes stollen or lost in my life, (2 as a kid, 1 one in college, 5 as a courier, and 2 in the last year.) the biggest thing if you don’t have a lock IMO is keeping it away from where homeless people/druggies congregate. Have to park it at the grocery store? Maybe find a secluded place and walk 100 yards.

fredlord

You're doing something wrong.

delbiker1 

I had one bike stolen in my life. I was in my early teens, thought I had it well hidden while I was fishing a pond. When I was leaving, the bike was gone. It was probably not even a $20 bike at that time. I did have an attempted bike theft of two bikes on a car rack. The way I had the car backed in against a wall, I guess they could not get enough torque to cut the 15mm cable, and could not break the lock. The location meant they did not have a lot of time. I still have the one that was mine.

MinnMan

I've had four stolen in my life.

At about age 7, living in Brooklyn, I was allowed to ride to the local playground alone. It was about 5 blocks from my house-. amazing to think of that now. While on the swing, another kid jumped on my Stingray and I never saw it again.

When I was a teen, a local kid opened our unlocked garage and stole my Schwinn Continental. He lived about 10 blocks away, but was foolish enough to ride it around town. I saw him on it, called the police, and it was recovered. In order to "disguise" the bike, he had done nothing more than rip off the bar tape and scrape off half the paint. Guy lived in a house twice the size of mine in a much nicer part of our already comfortable Long Island suburb. Go figure.

In the late 1980s, as a student in Eugene Oregon, somebody swiped my well-loved Motobecane from my backyard. It was unlocked, but in a well-hidden place. That sucked. I was a poor student at the time and really needed that bike to get to campus and back.

About 20 years ago, during the long period where I cared little about bikes, I left my classic early 1980s 12 speed Peugeot on my Minneapolis front porch unlocked for months and shrugged when it finally disappeared. I just hoped that whomever took it made good use of it. I was foolish - that was a sweet bike, which I didn't appreciate at the time.

Cramic

I’d hired a bike and cycled from Bristol to Bath and chained it up in the city centre. Came back several hours later and bike still there, but large marks in the chain where somebody had tried to cut through.

Funny thing was that it wasn’t actually locked. Only explanation was that I’d forgot to lock it/not done it right and the wannabe thief didn’t notice! Close one.

Did have one pinched out of my garage as a child. Was very disappointed in the human race even as a ten year old.

Paul Barnard

That was pretty interesting. One thing that was conspicuous in its absence from the program was any focus on the thief. If Vancouver is anything like most of the cities with which I am familiar, there is no reason for a low life not to steal a bike.