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MAN! Someone stole my bike locked down with 2 locks.

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Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Don't worry about making the thief feel guilty. He will never be conscious of guilt, but he will never have the faintest idea either, what it means to have self respect. A thief announces to the world by his thievery that he not only feels inferior and has to cheat to have what others can earn by real accomplishment, he announces his actual inferiority too. A thief convicts himself by stealing.
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😀
Ah Moonbeam, it's been a while since I've been able to enjoy one of your posts...I see your supply of weed has been replenished 😉

j/k 🙂
 
funny how I have a friend who b|tched when his employer required inspecting quality of bike locks for their delivery boys, and he failed.
 
Originally posted by: LivinLaVivaPollo
UC Santa Cruz. Damn you school... Damn you to hell... Damn you for breeding bicycle thieves...
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UCSC is hardly a breeding ground for criminals. Well, unless you count pot smokers as criminals.
 
this reminds me of pee wee's big adventure. when he locked up the bike with that 1000 ft. chain, and it was still jacked when he came outside. so perhaps you should look into finding a fat rich kid who may be jealous of your bike, go through some whacky adventures (large marge and riding with a convict), and go to hollywood. thats how pee wee found his bike. oh, and whatever you do, dont ask the alamo tour leader if theres a basement, because pee wee found that answer out the hard way.
 
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
What's the matter, geno, do you steal?
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huh? No...I just enjoyed your ethical summary of the situation...and the pot thing was referring to your above average insite as compared to the rest of the thread. Hinting at a source for your deeper train of thought...just playing though 😉
 
Reasons why I now ride a rusty DiamondBack, no forks, no special gear, squeaky front brakes, needs lube on crank and freewheel area.
 
CAN'T YOU GUYS FREAKIN' UNDERSTAND?!

When you have a new bike, you gotta rig it to explode if it gets tampered with. I mean... EXPLODE! Like a huge bomb. It must be capable of killing the thief and injuring at least 3 others.

That way, your bike will not get stolen.
 
Do us proud and start a new thread asking how you can make a new alarm system for your bike with proximity sensors that has a blaring 300 db horn with a tazer gun attached to it, all controlled by a palm pilot which you can get for free in a hot deals thread, after rebate and pm of course 😛.
 
Originally posted by: LivinLaVivaPollo
Should I call some local pawnshops and bike shops to tell them to keep an eye out for it?
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yes, the police are basically useless in an instance like this, your best bet is to check local shops, or better yet, talk to shop owners, and see if they'd be on the look out for that model being sold. Sometimes a nice manager at a shop can help you out more than the police
 
Dang, geno, I'm touchy about the drug issue since I'm constantly slimed as being on something. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I'm kinda blind as well and didn't compute the smileys too good either.
 
welcome to the club...i had 2 bikes stolen from me..TWO!!! wooshoo!!! frekain a....first time, i had a rope lock..they simply cut the rope lock...POS lock..

next time i got a factory garantee U-lock....THIS TIME THEY CUT THE RAILING THAT THE FREAKIN LOCK WAS ATTACHED TOO! WTF!! IT WAS BRAND NEW AND NICE TOO! ..

well, welcome to the club man... 🙁 sigh..sux huh...shiet..
 
Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
How are U-Locks broken so fast? Nitrogen to freeze it and then break? Small car jack to expand it and crack it?
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bolt cutters


actually a good whack at the join will take out a lot of them. the joint is the weakest part
 
If you are going to lock your bike, use a U-lock. And if you use a U-lock, use a GOOD U-lock, a Kryptonite U-lock, but not just any of the Kryptos. Those crappy WalMart things are so easily broken, it's not funny. And not all Kryptonite locks are the same, either.

Bicycling magazine did a test of locking devices and hired a NYC thief to try to defeat the locks. With only one exception, he broke every lock in a matter of seconds. The only lock that was undefeated was the Kryptonite New York City lock. (There are 3 variations in the NYLock line.....one mother of U-locks and a pair of cables, all of which are extremely heavy and thick. They also use different construction as compared to any other lock made.) It's the only lock made that carries a guarantee in Manhattan, NY. No other lock on the face of the earth will guarantee a damned thing in Manhattan.

I've been using such a lock on my Cannondale on the local univ. campus and have never had a worry aobut my bike's safety.

Good luck, tho.

 
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