In college I criticized a friend using a small cable lock, saying they're so easy to cut I could do it with a pair of side cutters. He doubted me and bet I couldn't. I pulled out a Leatherman and cut it right in front of him. It took a bit of effort, but for real all it took was a Leatherman and I was through that lock.
A couple of months ago, I posted somewhere else how cable locks can be cut with a $20 cable cutter from Amazon and was downvoted to hell. I don't get that mentality when the evidence is right in the posted picture why you shouldn't use them.
Ulocks are easy to pop open if they are the only lock, pick up the bike, spin it 360 degrees in the air, pop. thats why a 2nd lock makes a Ulock superior (this also works with short chainlocks, but with the lock OP shows, a file and 30 seconds or 1 second big snippers).
Indeed, don't need tools, just a bit of tension and patience. they aren't secure, that's why I use a wrench, take the seat off and problem solved, only certain would steal it..
We had an initiative here in Hungary few years ago where they created bait bikes and then tracked them down. It was super cool crime series on youtube basically the whole country waited for the new episodes but then they got into trouble with some street thugs, they got prosecuted for self judgement and violence. It didnt help that the guy who was leading this initiative had some issues with the law from earlier but for the year or so when the series was running it was glorious. They unfolded organized crime groups.
Personally I wouldnt, I am not about to go vigilante with some street thug over a bike. Humans are too fragile to start fucking around with crazier humans.
Dude those cord locks are mickey mouse, easy to cut. Get Kryptonite U-Lock front and back. This won't prevent thief but it will slow down thief to the point they leave your bike alone.
This is why I will never buy an expensive bike. Every bike I've owned in my entire adult life has been borderline dangerous to ride due to how crappy and run down they've been.
This sucks :/ but if you want to protect something expensive, you also gotta spend a decent amount on a lock. Either a u bolt or one of those thick chain locks abus has. Also check out the lockpicking lawyer on YouTube to choose the best lock for you. No lock is pick proof or cut proof but you can at least make it as annoying and long as possible for the theif or force them to use loud power tools instead of a 30$ bolt cutter they can pick up from the hardware store and is pretty much silent. Also don't make the mistake of getting a super cheap lock for just quick stops. Friend of mine did that with a 3€ shitty wire lock he got from aliexpress and the his e bike was gone in less than an hour. Worst part is he never noted down the frame number so there is no way of tracking it down.
This, I had an Abus ubolt lock, worked like a charm for years, but one too many I would leave my bike locked up in the rain to the point the u bolt lock seized up and wouldn’t release. I went to Lowe’s and bought a decent sized bolt cutter, took damn near an hour of small cuts to the plastic area around the actual lock for it to finally release, woulda have taken multiple hours to cut the u bolt part. Moral of story is any lock can be broken but thieves aren’t gonna spend an hour trying to cut one, so might as well buy a nice one and make it an inconvenience to them
The serial number will be your saving grace. Please include that information with your police report, that is the one thing that can help you get your bicycle back, as it’s engraved in the metal on the frame under the pedals.
Yeah, I hate when people recommend not to file a police report. There was an incident in Toronto where they found a guy who was hoarding stolen bikes (google Igor Cenk if you want the hilarious story), and because no one filed a police report, most of the bikes just sat in storage.
What do you expect the police to do? Drive around until they find it? Your best chance of locating you bike is visiting all the pawn shops near the location where your bike was stolen
Check FB marketplace or any online seller in your area instead. Unfortunately they likely take several bikes, go sell them at another local state, then take bikes there and come back to sell them.
We had a bike get stolen out of our garage when we moved into a new place. Cops took a report and recovered it a few days later at a pawn shop and returned it. So apparently some cops do follow up on things.
what do you want the cops to do? go door to door for your bike? its such a small object that can be taken and put almost anywhere. take your bike once shame on them take your bike twice shame on you. XD
That sucks, but your first mistake is you didn't use a D lock. They can cut right through that cable lock, which is why they did. No, the police don't really do anything beyond respond to violent crime at this point.
Realistically speaking, what do you expect law enforcement to do in this situation? Unless you provided them a serial number and they happen to stumble upon it, there’s literally nothing the could do.
It was taken last night. Dropped the lock and took off with it. I kinda hold myself accountable knowing it could happen again, but I failed to follow up by using a better lock or just keeping it in my dorm or in the back of my car.
Did you give the cops the serial number? Do you honestly expect them to drop their caseload of violent crimes and go look for your bike specifically when they probably don't even have enough manpower to look for stolen cars?
I visited a friend at UVM years ago and went to have a cig on her porch and noticed the guy next door had a literal mountain of bikes in his back yard. Just in a pile. I’d guess at least 30 but could be as many as 100 it was very hard to tell. I asked her about it and she said you will occasionally see him come through the back gate on a new bike and he’ll just toss it in the pile, but he never leaves his house on a bike. She also mentioned that people in her building had tried to call the cops about it but the issue was getting a warrant to search the yard and matching any of those bikes to a stolen bike. I think about that guy everytime I hear about someone’s bike getting stolen, because it’s probably Him.
If you're not familiar with lock picking lawyer on youtube, you should definitely check it out before you get a new lock. An expensive lock isn't always a strong or secure lock. He also gives some good recommendations. No sense locking up an expensive bike with a lock that can be bypassed with a fork.
My insurance is a Walmart bike. Can't pawn it for crack money, and theft for resell is just a waste of labor. If it DOES get stolen, just get another Walmart bike.
This works. Mine is equivalent to it. It’s tuned and greased to the brim and runs like the devil with one push of the pedal, but thieves see just a rusty old junk.
Ok, you have GOT to get a u-lock aka a kryptonite lock. Get your replacement registered with the PD, and don’t get a high end bike unless you need it for more than just getting around town.
Sometimes they catch them with tens or even hundreds of stolen bicycles from some storage building where they change hull numbers,change parts between bicycles and even repaint them.
Kind of satisfying for me to know i'm not a dumbass trying to secure a bike worth thousands with a sub 30$ lock. My 1000€ bike enjoys the safety of a 100€ U-lock that will never be cut.
Encasing it in metal will significantly reduce its signal range, as you'll basically trap it into a Faraday cage. It might get picked on if an iPhone gets really close to it though.
Dude, without video and a serial number to plug in the system (which I'm sure you didn't bother to record), there is NOTHING the police can do. A cut bike lock is not "evidence" and there is nothing to process from it for a property crime.
Simply put rubber handlebars on your next bike and coat them in fentanyl. Or simply cut into your bikes frame and put a pipe bomb inside with a proximity set off.
You learn the hard way with bikes. I never used a lock like that again after the same happened to me. I cringe when I see people lock their bikes with these things
You spent so much money on the bike itself and cheaped out on the one thing that protects it. Hopefully, a lesson has been learnt my friend. Get better lock next time
The cops are on it! A crack team of street detectives are chasing down leads, shaking down the local scum and checking all the videos in the area, rest assured your bike will be found and the responsible parties caught and brought to justice.
It was stored someplace that people knew bikes were there. His was the easiest to cut most likely. You see in the second picture, it was stored with some other bikes.
My CAR was stolen at a Mall in RI, and when I walked to the Police Dept. to report it, the cops told me the "Prospect Heights" gang did it & it would be found stripped the next day. Over 3 months later, I got a huge bill for towing & storage of my "abandoned" car - the gang dropped the car off in Providence (as predicted) but it was stolen in Pawtucket and Providence cops treated it as abandoned rather than stolen. I've been a victim of numerous property crimes over the decades, and there has never been the smallest effort to investigate or look for the criminals. The police exist to protect government, period.
I had a bike stolen before... cops don't give a shit... never found. I swear they just file some paperwork and go home. Most likely go home sad because they haven't shot anyone today....
I don't think you appreciate how large the case load is for this sort of thing. Petty theft is a daily occurrence, and everyone wants us to get to theirs immediately and first, expect there's still the cases from yesterday and last week that still need to be resolved. Until we actually get to your report, your best bet is to keep an eye out for it yourself and the patrol officers will too. Understand though that they have to keep an eye out for every stolen bike or car or backpack or this or that, and it's almost always too much for them to keep track of.
There's this golden rule about owning and storing a bicycle - your locks must be at least half the price of your bike. Think of it as an investment, because a good lock will last you a lifetime and most likely deter opportunistic thieves.
Half is pretty overkill. I know this rule with 10% and I am sure thats enough. My bike was 1000€ and I got a very good Kryptonite lock for about 100€. Nothing ever happened.
We need to do away with government and privatize security. The free market would incentivize officers to actually work on behalf of their clients to find and return stolen property. The best security firms would rise to the top and the ineffective ones would crumble…. Especially with no government to bail them out.
My partner is a bike a holic. He's got like 3 expensive bikes (no clue the brand since I'm not a connoisseur), and he refuses to ride it anywhere because he's convinced someone will steal it. The few times he does ride one of them, he doesn't go in anywhere...because, theft.
Realistically at a certain price point you have to store your bikes inside. I wouldn’t keep anything worth over $300/ sentimental value locked outside with ANY lock. Hell I even keep mine locked up INSIDE my garage.
I really recommend people getting themselves some gps trackers for your bikes, dudes bike was stolen in my appartment and the police got it back to him a few days later. They got it on the same day actually but had to do some bureaucracy...
I use three locks on my bike, Abus Granit X Plus, a Kryptonite U-Lock and a Kryptonite Flex cable to secure both wheels. You weren’t even using one lock.
Sorry that happened. Terrible people all over. My coworker had her car stolen in our employee parking lot the other day. All this seems like not a major deal until it happens to you. I've had a car stolen as well in 2019. Not fun even though I got my car back and the out took many weeks to sort through. I hope your thief and all thieves get what's coming to them.
Here's my logic: if you're going to spend about 1k on a bike then you surely can spend 50-100 on a lock and minimize the risk of loosing 1k by investing a 20th/10th of the bikes price
They likely won’t go out looking for it if that’s what you’re asking. But if someone runs the serial number then they can tell it’s yours and get it returned to you eventually. Not good odds tho
Sigh. Lost my favorite bike of all time last year right outside a busy grocery store. No cameras, no help, no luck trying to find it. I miss you so much blue boy.
U bolt locks
Yep, lesson learned
I got a u bolt. Got my 2nd bike stolen anyway.
Lockpickinglawyer moment
In college I criticized a friend using a small cable lock, saying they're so easy to cut I could do it with a pair of side cutters. He doubted me and bet I couldn't. I pulled out a Leatherman and cut it right in front of him. It took a bit of effort, but for real all it took was a Leatherman and I was through that lock.
I think that the LockPickingLawyer recommends Kryptonite?
And a tracker of some sort.
A couple of months ago, I posted somewhere else how cable locks can be cut with a $20 cable cutter from Amazon and was downvoted to hell. I don't get that mentality when the evidence is right in the posted picture why you shouldn't use them.
The right bolt cutters will get through a u-lock in less than two minutes.
NYC bicycle messenger for three years.
Ulocks are easy to pop open if they are the only lock, pick up the bike, spin it 360 degrees in the air, pop. thats why a 2nd lock makes a Ulock superior (this also works with short chainlocks, but with the lock OP shows, a file and 30 seconds or 1 second big snippers).
Indeed, don't need tools, just a bit of tension and patience. they aren't secure, that's why I use a wrench, take the seat off and problem solved, only certain would steal it..
And an airtag in the tire
I use cable locks to keep my bike cover from blowing away. That’s about they’re full usefulness.
Lockpicking lawyer is dying inside right now
It doesn't matter how strong the lock mechanism is, when you simply can attack its weakest link. But using a side cutter? now that's just barbaric.
This is the work of Mrs lockpicking lawyer
No bike thief is taking the time to become an expert lock picker.
Locking a 1000+$ Bike with a 5$ lock.
case closed 🔐 (not the lock tho)
They’re like ~$50-60 I sell these at the bike shop I work at. Still never would use in an area with mid to high crime. Use a U lock.
Cheap cable locks are useless. Might as well just tie it with a piece of string and save the 30 bucks.
Why use string? Just pull hair from your hairbrush.
Cable locks aren't useless. They keep honest people honest. A crime of opportunity can't happen if there is even the most basic level of security.
It's mostly there too keep drunks from taking your bike or just stip someone who sees an opertunity, with cheap locks someone at least needs a tool
Next one hide an AirTag (or similar) on or in the frame / bike. Won’t stop it being nicked but at least you’ll know where it is.
We had an initiative here in Hungary few years ago where they created bait bikes and then tracked them down. It was super cool crime series on youtube basically the whole country waited for the new episodes but then they got into trouble with some street thugs, they got prosecuted for self judgement and violence. It didnt help that the guy who was leading this initiative had some issues with the law from earlier but for the year or so when the series was running it was glorious. They unfolded organized crime groups.
Don’t the air tags alert people if a tag is following them and isn’t theirs? Of course this is if the their is an iPhone user I imagine.
AirTag uses Bluetooth 5.0, so it is advertised to be effective to at least 800 feet
Personally I wouldnt, I am not about to go vigilante with some street thug over a bike. Humans are too fragile to start fucking around with crazier humans.
You made it easy for them.
Second time? Lol Use normal lock dude.
I mean, that's a shit lock. I feel like you knew this.
Sounds like he's just feeding shelter bikes to thieves.
Dude those cord locks are mickey mouse, easy to cut. Get Kryptonite U-Lock front and back. This won't prevent thief but it will slow down thief to the point they leave your bike alone.
I just started bike riding again, got an e-bike, still getting some odds and ends for it, is there a reason you suggest this specific brand?
That or they damage your bike in a fit or rage.
Also kryptonite locks offer insurance on your bike if the lock is broken. I don’t remember how much extra it cost me but it wasn’t much.
A pricey bike.
This is why I will never buy an expensive bike. Every bike I've owned in my entire adult life has been borderline dangerous to ride due to how crappy and run down they've been.
This sucks :/ but if you want to protect something expensive, you also gotta spend a decent amount on a lock. Either a u bolt or one of those thick chain locks abus has. Also check out the lockpicking lawyer on YouTube to choose the best lock for you. No lock is pick proof or cut proof but you can at least make it as annoying and long as possible for the theif or force them to use loud power tools instead of a 30$ bolt cutter they can pick up from the hardware store and is pretty much silent. Also don't make the mistake of getting a super cheap lock for just quick stops. Friend of mine did that with a 3€ shitty wire lock he got from aliexpress and the his e bike was gone in less than an hour. Worst part is he never noted down the frame number so there is no way of tracking it down.
LPL uses a Kryptonite Evolution 1090 chain lock for his own bike, for what it's worth.
This, I had an Abus ubolt lock, worked like a charm for years, but one too many I would leave my bike locked up in the rain to the point the u bolt lock seized up and wouldn’t release. I went to Lowe’s and bought a decent sized bolt cutter, took damn near an hour of small cuts to the plastic area around the actual lock for it to finally release, woulda have taken multiple hours to cut the u bolt part. Moral of story is any lock can be broken but thieves aren’t gonna spend an hour trying to cut one, so might as well buy a nice one and make it an inconvenience to them
$1000 bike and you skimp on a lock, you reap what you sow. Did you not learn from your first bike.
This bike looks spec’d out.. easily 2 or 3k
The serial number will be your saving grace. Please include that information with your police report, that is the one thing that can help you get your bicycle back, as it’s engraved in the metal on the frame under the pedals.
Yeah, I hate when people recommend not to file a police report. There was an incident in Toronto where they found a guy who was hoarding stolen bikes (google Igor Cenk if you want the hilarious story), and because no one filed a police report, most of the bikes just sat in storage.
Don't even need to give it in Sweden. My bike got stolen and I never reported it stolen, because seriously, what are the chances I get it back?
What do you expect the police to do? Drive around until they find it? Your best chance of locating you bike is visiting all the pawn shops near the location where your bike was stolen
Not even pawn shops. They've started selling things from FB's marketplace.
Check FB marketplace or any online seller in your area instead. Unfortunately they likely take several bikes, go sell them at another local state, then take bikes there and come back to sell them.
We had a bike get stolen out of our garage when we moved into a new place. Cops took a report and recovered it a few days later at a pawn shop and returned it. So apparently some cops do follow up on things.
Let’s put government in charge of health care, too!
Police reports for stolen items aren’t to find the item, it’s to provide to insurance that it was registered as stolen
Spends a 1000 bucks on a bike
My house was just burgled for the second time.
Best lesson learned in college: have a shitty looking bike. It can still be high quality, but if it looks flashy/nice, it will be taken.
what do you want the cops to do? go door to door for your bike? its such a small object that can be taken and put almost anywhere. take your bike once shame on them take your bike twice shame on you. XD
That sucks, but your first mistake is you didn't use a D lock. They can cut right through that cable lock, which is why they did. No, the police don't really do anything beyond respond to violent crime at this point.
Realistically speaking, what do you expect law enforcement to do in this situation? Unless you provided them a serial number and they happen to stumble upon it, there’s literally nothing the could do.
Super glue a AirTag discreetly on your next bike. Maybe do 2, find them yourself
Why use paper for such expensive bikes. Somewhat your fault op
Either go with U locks or high security chains (Like the Kryptonites).
With that lock you were begging for it to get stolen.
What exactly do you think the police should do?
Add your bike as a rider to your insurance policy it costs like $15 a year. Mine will reimburse the full cost of the bike with no rate increases.
It was taken last night. Dropped the lock and took off with it. I kinda hold myself accountable knowing it could happen again, but I failed to follow up by using a better lock or just keeping it in my dorm or in the back of my car.
If you live in area where this happens, just keep it in your room. I did the same when i was younger and lived in shady ghetto.
Rig it with explosives just dont forget you did
This video of bike thief revenge won't bring your bike back, but it might make you feel better:
Did you give the cops the serial number? Do you honestly expect them to drop their caseload of violent crimes and go look for your bike specifically when they probably don't even have enough manpower to look for stolen cars?
There are tracking devices for bikes.
I visited a friend at UVM years ago and went to have a cig on her porch and noticed the guy next door had a literal mountain of bikes in his back yard. Just in a pile. I’d guess at least 30 but could be as many as 100 it was very hard to tell. I asked her about it and she said you will occasionally see him come through the back gate on a new bike and he’ll just toss it in the pile, but he never leaves his house on a bike. She also mentioned that people in her building had tried to call the cops about it but the issue was getting a warrant to search the yard and matching any of those bikes to a stolen bike. I think about that guy everytime I hear about someone’s bike getting stolen, because it’s probably Him.
If you're not familiar with lock picking lawyer on youtube, you should definitely check it out before you get a new lock. An expensive lock isn't always a strong or secure lock. He also gives some good recommendations. No sense locking up an expensive bike with a lock that can be bypassed with a fork.
Unless you’re commuting down a mountain buy something cheaper and in a less flashy color
OP is obviously very racist as california says dont call the police when your items are stolen because it will only hurt brown people... /s
Locks only keep honest people honest.
My insurance is a Walmart bike. Can't pawn it for crack money, and theft for resell is just a waste of labor. If it DOES get stolen, just get another Walmart bike.
This works. Mine is equivalent to it. It’s tuned and greased to the brim and runs like the devil with one push of the pedal, but thieves see just a rusty old junk.
Look for the bike on offer up and what not.
Ok, you have GOT to get a u-lock aka a kryptonite lock. Get your replacement registered with the PD, and don’t get a high end bike unless you need it for more than just getting around town.
Sometimes they catch them with tens or even hundreds of stolen bicycles from some storage building where they change hull numbers,change parts between bicycles and even repaint them.
Oh yeah those locks never hold…
Kind of satisfying for me to know i'm not a dumbass trying to secure a bike worth thousands with a sub 30$ lock. My 1000€ bike enjoys the safety of a 100€ U-lock that will never be cut.
I wonder if AirTags would fit down the seat shaft before the seat is put on. Maybe something to try in the future.
Encasing it in metal will significantly reduce its signal range, as you'll basically trap it into a Faraday cage. It might get picked on if an iPhone gets really close to it though.
Someone steals his bike with no camera’s around. FriGgin CoPs wOnt dO nuthin…..ugh.
Get an AirTag
HOW THE FUCK ARE PEOPLE STILL USING CABLE LOCKS?!?!?!?!
Come on dude, that bike and lock combo make no sense! We call those kinda locks gift ribbons around here.
So you put a $70 dollar lock on a $1000 bike? you spent less than 10% to protect your investment. Good job.
Your bike is gone forever.
That's what you get for not using a U lock made of metal.
Without a U lock, it sounds like you're just feeding the criminals bikes
Dude, without video and a serial number to plug in the system (which I'm sure you didn't bother to record), there is NOTHING the police can do. A cut bike lock is not "evidence" and there is nothing to process from it for a property crime.
Hide an AirTag somewhere on the bike.
Simply put rubber handlebars on your next bike and coat them in fentanyl. Or simply cut into your bikes frame and put a pipe bomb inside with a proximity set off.
“I doubt they’ll do shit about it”
You learn the hard way with bikes. I never used a lock like that again after the same happened to me. I cringe when I see people lock their bikes with these things
You practically used a shoe lace to secure such an expensive bike. Get a decent lock.
Check out the lockpickinglawyer on YouTube to help you select you next lock.
What do you think they would do? A stake out with a bait bike?
Do you have renters insurance? Because they’ll cover that no problem.
Ride a shitty bike problem solved
Why don't folks put a,tracker on the bikes? Hide one under the seat or behind the rear reflector
You can get a replacement pretty cheaply on Craig’s List. I just bought this exact bike for $150 in Utah.
Put an AirTag on that mofo
You spent so much money on the bike itself and cheaped out on the one thing that protects it. Hopefully, a lesson has been learnt my friend. Get better lock next time
Get a gprs tracker that can be hidden in the seat tube. Next time it goes missing grab your homies and go repossess it yourself👊
No. Get a U lock and lock the back wheel to something substantial.
Invest in a better lock!
I have that same lock. Shit.
The cops are on it! A crack team of street detectives are chasing down leads, shaking down the local scum and checking all the videos in the area, rest assured your bike will be found and the responsible parties caught and brought to justice.
Why are you riding downhill expensive bikes around like that?
It was stored someplace that people knew bikes were there. His was the easiest to cut most likely. You see in the second picture, it was stored with some other bikes.
Does that lock have a no-theft guarantee of some sort?
it’s made of cable of course not :/
I'm not into victim blaming, but why on earth would you use a $15 cable lock on such a nice bike?!?!?!
Police never do shit about stolen property.
My CAR was stolen at a Mall in RI, and when I walked to the Police Dept. to report it, the cops told me the "Prospect Heights" gang did it & it would be found stripped the next day. Over 3 months later, I got a huge bill for towing & storage of my "abandoned" car - the gang dropped the car off in Providence (as predicted) but it was stolen in Pawtucket and Providence cops treated it as abandoned rather than stolen. I've been a victim of numerous property crimes over the decades, and there has never been the smallest effort to investigate or look for the criminals. The police exist to protect government, period.
I had a bike stolen before... cops don't give a shit... never found. I swear they just file some paperwork and go home. Most likely go home sad because they haven't shot anyone today....
I don't think you appreciate how large the case load is for this sort of thing. Petty theft is a daily occurrence, and everyone wants us to get to theirs immediately and first, expect there's still the cases from yesterday and last week that still need to be resolved. Until we actually get to your report, your best bet is to keep an eye out for it yourself and the patrol officers will too. Understand though that they have to keep an eye out for every stolen bike or car or backpack or this or that, and it's almost always too much for them to keep track of.
Cops don't do shit unless they have to
Tell them it was full of drugs and watch the response?
There's this golden rule about owning and storing a bicycle - your locks must be at least half the price of your bike. Think of it as an investment, because a good lock will last you a lifetime and most likely deter opportunistic thieves.
Half is pretty overkill. I know this rule with 10% and I am sure thats enough. My bike was 1000€ and I got a very good Kryptonite lock for about 100€. Nothing ever happened.
For real tho? This lock on that bike?
Plot twist: that was the lock from the first bike, that he reused for the second bike.
How much was your bike and how much was that lock? Not saying the have the right to take your bike but come on.
As someone who has lost a few expensive bikes too.
Tf is the police supposed to do?
It’s not hard to find your bike, at least not where I’m from. They run open air chop shops.
1000 dollar bike, 20 dollar lock. It sucks but you could have seen this coming from a mile away.
We need to do away with government and privatize security. The free market would incentivize officers to actually work on behalf of their clients to find and return stolen property. The best security firms would rise to the top and the ineffective ones would crumble…. Especially with no government to bail them out.
1k+ on a bike, 30- on a lock, nobody deserves this but damn bud a lil silly
Get two locks: one U-bolt and one thick chain. Sometimes it’s about being the most hassle to steal that saves your bike.
Cops don't care. They have donuts to eat and brown people to beat, keeps 'em busy.
They had that kryptonite's kryptonite.
You should consider hiding an Apple AirTag on your next bike.
To be honest, get a much better lock for that expensive of a bike. A $10 lock from walmart wasn’t going to be any kind of theft deterrent.
I'm sorry to hear that. I'd recommend investing into a bike alarmbox and a good chain
Which city is it if you can say?
Saint George Utah
Or get a thick chain and a 40 lock harder to cut with bolt cutters.
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I use the largest linked chain I can get through the spokes. Duckers are gonna spend a while on cutting them.
le hacksaw has arrived
Same. I just gave up. 2k down the drain. Like legit two bikes. Didnt even use the other one for a year.
My partner is a bike a holic. He's got like 3 expensive bikes (no clue the brand since I'm not a connoisseur), and he refuses to ride it anywhere because he's convinced someone will steal it. The few times he does ride one of them, he doesn't go in anywhere...because, theft.
Get a U-lock. Kryptonite makes some good ones
Realistically at a certain price point you have to store your bikes inside. I wouldn’t keep anything worth over $300/ sentimental value locked outside with ANY lock. Hell I even keep mine locked up INSIDE my garage.
My old roommate had a u bolt and her bike got stolen in downtown Denver in broad daylight.
In high school my bike was also stolen with same lock me and my friend both are bike were stolen never found Even after video evedience
Looks like a nice bike
Kryptonite forgettabout it or go with out it (the bike)
I'm so sorry that happened to you. I hate stealers. And geez I can't believe how easily they cut thru that lock.
Yep your screwed .
I really recommend people getting themselves some gps trackers for your bikes, dudes bike was stolen in my appartment and the police got it back to him a few days later. They got it on the same day actually but had to do some bureaucracy...
If a U-lock is not an option, get a Kryptonite chain lock
I use three locks on my bike, Abus Granit X Plus, a Kryptonite U-Lock and a Kryptonite Flex cable to secure both wheels. You weren’t even using one lock.
Check your local Craigslist or offerup or FB market place.
Why did you lock it with that shoelace
Those locks suck. That’s one you
Double u lock: one for front tire locked to frame and the second one for the back tire.
Just steal someone elses bike and call it karma
Remove the seat or front wheel the less desirable it is thieves will look for a better target to take
Put an apple tag on it.
Happend to me also twice, just get a old bike that drives well, they wont touch it.
Sorry that happened. Terrible people all over. My coworker had her car stolen in our employee parking lot the other day. All this seems like not a major deal until it happens to you. I've had a car stolen as well in 2019. Not fun even though I got my car back and the out took many weeks to sort through. I hope your thief and all thieves get what's coming to them.
Try AirTag…that’s really helpful
Yeah man. Cable locks are garbage. They're good as an extra lock. But not the only lock.
A bike of that type at $1000 is basically a commuter so maybe aim lower?
Soo 1000+ bike with a 5$ lock??
Maybe you shouldn't have spent $15 on a lock then
Here's my logic: if you're going to spend about 1k on a bike then you surely can spend 50-100 on a lock and minimize the risk of loosing 1k by investing a 20th/10th of the bikes price
You just have to hope there is a special place in hell for these cnuts
Go to market place RIGHT NOW
Next time paint any ugly colour so they won't steal.
I mean… it was.
Put out a bait bike with a seat that has a hole in it over the bar lolll
They likely won’t go out looking for it if that’s what you’re asking. But if someone runs the serial number then they can tell it’s yours and get it returned to you eventually. Not good odds tho
Apple Air Tag. Lots of places to hide it in your bike frame. You can lead the cops right to where it is.
Tips I got
I got the exact same lock! Damn i thought it was extra thick
Sigh. Lost my favorite bike of all time last year right outside a busy grocery store. No cameras, no help, no luck trying to find it. I miss you so much blue boy.
At least it was your second bike and you can still use your main bike
Can't do shit about it...
Fun true story