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My bike was stolen.
Bill Henry wrote:
Someone stole my bike. It was a 2004 Gary Fisher Marlin, silver with black hardware. XL size. It was parked in Rengstorff Park near the tennis courts in Mountain View, CA. I was playing tennis when it was stolen. It was locked to the rack with a cable lock only. My fault, 100%. I should have had it locked up better. Anyhow, fair warning - use a U-lock at least when parking your bike in broad daylight, unless you can keep your eye on it. These thieves are quick. :-( This kind of thing is why I do take my car once in a while. There is almost no safe way to lock a bike when you are inside for an extended period of time. 1. Guy locks his front wheel with speed detach. Comes out and wheel is still but not the bike. 2. Guy locks his bike by threading through both the frame and front wheel. Back wheel has speed detach and now it is gone. 3. Smart guy locks up both his front and rear wheels. Comes out and the seat and post which had a speed detach was gone. Thieves will sheal anything that isn't bolted/welded down. If I just HAVE to take the bike for some reason I lock up both wheels to the frame and a large bike rack and then take the seat in with me. Sure I get odd looks and the occasional question, but when I tell them why they agree with me. Bill Baka |
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My bike was stolen.
Someone stole my bike. It was a 2004 Gary Fisher Marlin, silver with
black hardware. XL size. It was parked in Rengstorff Park near the tennis courts in Mountain View, CA. I was playing tennis when it was stolen. It was locked to the rack with a cable lock only. My fault, 100%. I should have had it locked up better. Anyhow, fair warning - use a U-lock at least when parking your bike in broad daylight, unless you can keep your eye on it. These thieves are quick. :-( |
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My bike was stolen.
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Bill Henry writes: Someone stole my bike. It was a 2004 Gary Fisher Marlin, silver with black hardware. XL size. It was parked in Rengstorff Park near the tennis courts in Mountain View, CA. I was playing tennis when it was stolen. It was locked to the rack with a cable lock only. My fault, 100%. I should have had it locked up better. Anyhow, fair warning - use a U-lock at least when parking your bike in broad daylight, unless you can keep your eye on it. These thieves are quick. :-( Having your ride stolen really sux, and you have my condolences. FWIW, sometimes they get stolen no matter what extremes you go to, to secure them. But I know your anger & pain. I wish I could ship a replacement to you. better days, Tom -- -- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca |
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My bike was stolen.
Bill Henry wrote:
Someone stole my bike. It was a 2004 Gary Fisher Marlin, silver with black hardware. XL size. It was parked in Rengstorff Park near the tennis courts in Mountain View, CA. I was playing tennis when it was stolen. It was locked to the rack with a cable lock only. My fault, 100%. I should have had it locked up better. Anyhow, fair warning - use a U-lock at least when parking your bike in broad daylight, unless you can keep your eye on it. These thieves are quick. Bites the big fat one, for sure. FWIW, someone posted on AM-B a link to a story about a guy's stolen /$6K/ race bike in NYC; seems the owner locked it up while he attended a film festival! So don't beat yourself up TOO much about yours getting ripped while you played tennis. (Especially if the rack was almost in sight.) Keep your eyes open; maybe the thief will do something careless. (Then you could REALLY use that U-lock!) Bill S. |
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My bike was stolen.
"Bill Henry" wrote in message news Someone stole my bike. It was a 2004 Gary Fisher Marlin, silver with black hardware. XL size. It was parked in Rengstorff Park near the tennis courts in Mountain View, CA. I was playing tennis when it was stolen. It was locked to the rack with a cable lock only. My fault, 100%. I should have had it locked up better. Yeah. The thieves had no choice but to steal it. Your fault, 100%. I often daydream about bike theft countermeasures, but I'd have to be really sick to beat one device that came up in a bull session about the subject one day. "The Shaft (TM)": A spring-loaded harpoon is placed in the seat tube. Normally the spring is unloaded, and kept that way by a secret "interlock" only the owner knows about. The whole system is passive as long as the interlock disables the system. When the owner parks (and conventionally locks) the bicycle in a high-theft-risk area, the act of locking the bike also activates the device. If the lock is opened conventionally with a key, no problem -- the system is deactivated and remains passive. If the lock is cut and the bike stolen, pedaling loads the spring on the harpoon until a specified number of crank rotations has taken place, whereupon the harpoon is launched upward with great force, through the hollow seat tube, through the saddle and into whatever is seated on the saddle. A barbed tip is present on the harpoon, preventing its easy removal. The harpoon is tethered to the bottom of the seat tube with a lightweight but strong aramid fiber cable. The perpetrator gets to reconsider his career options as he crawls along trying to leave his newly-acquired bicycle, the product of probably the last crime he'll ever commit, behind him. It, however, follows him, painfully tethered to his nether regions. To add insult to injury, the "after-the-fact voice alarm system" loudly announces the obvious: "The guy with The Shaft up his ass is a THIEF. The guy with The Shaft..." repeatedly until the solar-powered alarm battery is depleted. Anyone want to do a patent search? |
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My bike was stolen.
"Roger Houston" wrote: (clip)Anyone want to do a patent search? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ How about just firing a Bic pen up the guy's ass? Certain poetic justice in that. |
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My bike was stolen.
Yeah, but the fountain pen collectors I hang with would suggest a
MontBlanc instead -- shiny,oh so shiny, but the plastic, excuse me, black precious resin, shatters notoriously easily. And since it's plastic, nice simple Xrays can't detect the fragments.... Yup, I too don't lile bike thieves. Robert Leone |
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My bike was stolen.
Roger Houston wrote:
"The Shaft (TM)": A spring-loaded harpoon is placed in the seat tube. Normally the spring is unloaded, and kept that way by a secret "interlock" only the owner knows about. Great idea, but I'd be to worried about a "misfire" to ever ride the bike. My Grandpa, who lived on a farm, once spent countless hours rigging his mailbox to "fight back" when some kid took a wack at it with a baseball bat out the car window. And all that time was turned into great satisfaction the next time his mailbox was knocked down because around it were hundreds of shards of broken window glass. Rich |
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My bike was stolen.
Leo Lichtman wrote:
"Roger Houston" wrote: (clip)Anyone want to do a patent search? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ How about just firing a Bic pen up the guy's ass? Certain poetic justice in that. The pen is mightier then the sword??? Sorry, couldn't resist. W |
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My bike was stolen.
Bill wrote:
Bill Henry wrote: Someone stole my bike. It was a 2004 Gary Fisher Marlin, silver with black hardware. XL size. It was parked in Rengstorff Park near the tennis courts in Mountain View, CA. I was playing tennis when it was stolen. It was locked to the rack with a cable lock only. My fault, 100%. I should have had it locked up better. Anyhow, fair warning - use a U-lock at least when parking your bike in broad daylight, unless you can keep your eye on it. These thieves are quick. :-( This kind of thing is why I do take my car once in a while. There is almost no safe way to lock a bike when you are inside for an extended period of time. 1. Guy locks his front wheel with speed detach. Comes out and wheel is still but not the bike. 2. Guy locks his bike by threading through both the frame and front wheel. Back wheel has speed detach and now it is gone. 3. Smart guy locks up both his front and rear wheels. Comes out and the seat and post which had a speed detach was gone. Thieves will sheal anything that isn't bolted/welded down. If I just HAVE to take the bike for some reason I lock up both wheels to the frame and a large bike rack and then take the seat in with me. Sure I get odd looks and the occasional question, but when I tell them why they agree with me. The solution for the seat at least, is to remove the speed detach, how often do you adjust the seat anyway, use a Allen key bolt and a regular metric nut, and quit worrying about the seat. Very few bike thieves have many tools with them, as for cable locks go with the heavy duty, the kind where cable cutters will not work well, nobody is gonna sit there for 1/2 hour with a hacksaw, trying to steal your bike. Especially after you whack them across the back of the head with your tool kit.. W |
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