Stolen Bike pubnight/ meeting

wow. well feel free to copy the idea.

Love the idea of "decoy bikes " Chris, how about a Halfords own, sprayed up like summit pretty damn expensive, filled to the sprockets with C4 and a little mobile phone activated detonator.....

Unipack.

I'd be happy to help with the site/hosting stuff if required, once I've got my exams done (4th June). Not too hot on the frontend design (as you can probably tell from my lame blog layout :-p), but knocking up some form of site shouldn't be too problematic.

Love the idea of "decoy bikes " Chris, how about a Halfords own, sprayed up like summit pretty damn expensive, filled to the sprockets with C4 and a little mobile phone activated detonator.....

pipe bomb?

decoy bike- no brakes, flat pedals, suicide hub-then let nature do her work

decoy bike- no brakes, flat pedals, suicide hub-then let nature do her work

Even better would be to give them time to get up to escape speed, using a timer of some sort, it would have to be simple and mechanical to be reliable.

For instance bonding/welding the BB cup to the crank arm - removing the crank bolt and tapping the arm loose + removing the lock ring - so on the surface of it you just have a bike with a loose crank . . .

. . . but as this bloke pedals off - the fact that the BB cup is wielded to the crank arm and the crank arm is loose means he is slowly unscrewing the BB cup and pushing the crank arm off.

after many conversations about riding fixed with colleagues, customers, and other 'tards, i have found the easiest way to LEARN to ride fixed, and learn hop-skids!

Basically you can do this on either a road bike with a flip-flop hub (one side must be fixed!) also do-able on a mountain bike, as long as it has disc rotor mount on the hub.

Basically set up the drivetrain on the driveside, singlespeed, using a tensioner if need be, get that running sweetly,

THEN;

Setup another R/H side (driveside) crank arm, on the L/H side, running fixed but an easier ratio, therefore, you can run say 38/16 on the driveside, for a higher top end speed, and on the non-drive-side, you could run 38/13, so it is easier for you to hob skid, as there is less force on your legs,

Tah-dah!

possibly the option of a very badly drawn paint diagram later-on!
report or let them do this

after many conversations about riding fixed with colleagues, customers, and other 'tards, i have found the easiest way to LEARN to ride fixed, and learn hop-skids!

Basically you can do this on either a road bike with a flip-flop hub (one side must be fixed!) also do-able on a mountain bike, as long as it has disc rotor mount on the hub.

Basically set up the drivetrain on the driveside, singlespeed, using a tensioner if need be, get that running sweetly,

THEN;

Setup another R/H side (driveside) crank arm, on the L/H side, running fixed but an easier ratio, therefore, you can run say 38/16 on the driveside, for a higher top end speed, and on the non-drive-side, you could run 38/13, so it is easier for you to hob skid, as there is less force on your legs,

Tah-dah!

possibly the option of a very badly drawn paint diagram later-on!
report or let them do this

No matter how many threads you post it in, it still doesn't work ! :)

Are you suggesting you would have two ratios at your disposal ?

If this is what you are suggesting, how would you choose one over the other ?

Also 38/13 is harder to push than 38/16, not easier. And what is a 'hob skid' ?

Dude I copied it from original thread, its not my idea-: /

Dude I copied it from original thread, its not my idea-: /

Whoops ! Sorry ! :)

Why are you posting it here ?

I guess, either:
a, it would make a dangerous enough decoy bike.
b, no fucker would want to nick it.

leave a bike in the street and kill anyone who touches it.
use knives and big bits of wood so it hurts, that will learn them not to touch our bikes

is London worse than other countries for bike theft??

just curious, cos here in Kobe, i saw this bike today, hardly locked at all (and it had a sticker on it from the local police, meaning that it had been there a while)

having had 4 bikes stolen in England (2 locked in the street, 2 locked in a locked shed) this just seems like heaven to me!

In Japan, every bike has to be registered with the police. And they randomly stop and check people (especially foreigners) If the name on the file doesnt match with you, they take the bike away, and call the owner to come and pick it up. Strikes me as being a very good system... but impossible to set up in London?

leave a bike in the street and kill anyone who touches it.

Yes, I actually laugh out loud. :)

Fucking kill their brains off their heads.

Strikes me as being a very good system... but impossible to set up in London?

It would be trivial, but bike theft is not a priority.

the japanese version of community support officers (except the J ones are all retired old men) just spend their day checking on bikes, putting tickets on ones parked in the wrong place/left there for more than a few days (tickets are just warnings, not fines) and generally just looking at bikes!

its a shame London doesnt think its a priority :(

If this is going to go down, could be set up in the Edinboro Castle in Camden.

OK not the hotest of hot spots for bike theft.....but it has a freaking big outside area (need sunny day) and plenty of good piss.

http://fancyapint.com/pubs/pub2001.html

Also, think the stolen bike listing needs more detail....that way people will start to learn from others. Where not to park it...out side the George, What to use...not a freaking cable lock! However, once people start seeing the methods that are being used to get the lock off then they can try to limit the chance.....

Shall I bring my pitchfork and torch?

Torch definatly, I need a light for those malborough reds any ways....

you bastards

http://www.gumtree.com/london/32/24090132.html

Not sure where else to post this, but this add looks very suspicious. if this is the genuine owner selling this bike I'll eat my hat.

JDB, the description does read as somewhat wonk, but different bar tapes in each pic would suggest it's been kept and cared for, no? Maybe even different crank set (can't tell for the reflection)?

Its been posted before (in the ebay thread i think). Personally I don't think it's too suspicious. Price is way high though :D

Doesn't seem suspicious to me. Behind the photographer of photo outside the royal albert hall is the royal college of art (or some other art college). Me being quite cynical, I'd say it's some trendy art student selling it who doesn't have a clue about bikes :)