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i travel with a mini evo and a cable, basically leaving your wheels unlocke in london is asking for them to get nicked, now that i think about it it's fucking shit, it really shouldn't be such a pain in the ass

i can't believe someone kicked your door down and nicked your bikes in the middle of the night. that is fucking scary.

Commercial live/work space entrance via back very bleak secluded back street blah.....

so shit, I was thinking about the possibility of getting a bike jacked in the street last night, not only has this been confirmed on this thread but Tragic's experience is awful. My brother had his biked nicked from his hallway a few years ago but somehow they'd worked out his door wasn't locked so securely. Getting the door kicked in by five guys is a new low really.

Hope you're coping with this shit okay today dude. The cops better be on this one properly or they really do suck, it could have been very dangerous if you had intervened.

thats terrible news......least they didn't attack you aswel though.

lfgss crowd should get together, lock their bikes up at random spots around london, wait for the thief's across the road and then go smash shit out them.

This would be my worst nightmare. I even lock my bikes to the oven when I go away.

Bad luck, man.

I hope you recover them.

This would be my worst nightmare. I even lock my bikes to the oven when I go away.

Bad luck, man.

I lock mine up indoors too. Mine is chained to my radiator even if I go out in the evening - paranoid, heh.

you go out in the evening?!?!

tragic, tragic experience there... :( at least it was insured.

:p

Get some insurance.

thats terrible news......least they didn't attack you aswel though.

lfgss crowd should get together, lock their bikes up at random spots around london, wait for the thief's across the road and then go smash shit out them.

After having been mugged in barcelona years ago by a junkie threatening to use an infected syringe on a friend, we (the 4 people who got mugged) spent the next days hoping we'd find the guy when we had our skateboards (we were shooting an article for a magazine and at the time of mugging we were in 'chill'-mode sans skateboards and luckily for me sans photo equipment) so we could beat him up. We didn't find him and in retrospect I'm glad we didn't because I wouldn't want to have a death or serious injury on my consience for some stolen money... 2 or 3 years later I was in Barca again and I saw the guy who was now more of a wreck than he was we he mugged us and somehow it reinforced my naive atheistic belief in some kind of instant karma.
While I fully understand those vigilante feelings you express, a bike is just a thing that can be replaced (and yes I know it sucks when it's an expensive bike), and causing serious injury (or death) by beating someone up is going to take more away from you than that bike ever was.
Plus, imagine getting caught by the po po while in the process of beating someone up...

;)

"Self-defense officer. Pass me that iron bar."
What's a moral?

:)

Get some insurance.

I do. My bike isn't covered when it's in my uni hall, because it's a 'fire hazard' and shouldn't be there, but it's covered outside of halls on a Butterworth's policy.

Hippy- as a fellow skippy, all I can do is back you up there mate.

Morally diminshed? BITFO ( bring it the fuck on)

Would you be a dear and pass me that Stinger missile....

After having been mugged in barcelona years ago by a junkie threatening to use an infected syringe on a friend, we (the 4 people who got mugged) spent the next days hoping we'd find the guy when we had our skateboards (we were shooting an article for a magazine and at the time of mugging we were in 'chill'-mode sans skateboards and luckily for me sans photo equipment) so we could beat him up. We didn't find him and in retrospect I'm glad we didn't because I wouldn't want to have a death or serious injury on my consience for some stolen money... 2 or 3 years later I was in Barca again and I saw the guy who was now more of a wreck than he was we he mugged us and somehow it reinforced my naive atheistic belief in some kind of instant karma.
While I fully understand those vigilante feelings you express, a bike is just a thing that can be replaced (and yes I know it sucks when it's an expensive bike), and causing serious injury (or death) by beating someone up is going to take more away from you than that bike ever was.
Plus, imagine getting caught by the po po while in the process of beating someone up...

;)

Maybe if enough people kicked the shit out of him when he started down this path he might have been discouraged from continuing his decent. (?)

"Self-defense officer. Pass me that iron bar."
What's a moral?

:)

+1

I lock my bikes/frames/spare wheels up to whatever I can find when I go on holiday, haven't quite gone down the 'lock 'em up at night or when I'm out' route yet but considering it... The only reason my old bike didn't get taken when I was burgled last year was cuz the cunts only managed to kick the bottom of the door in (imagine a massive cat-flap)... Bastards still managed to get my 32" LCD TV out tho'... Uninsured too, £3k's worth of stuff... Bah! Let's all move to Tokyo...
Hope you're feelin' a bit better about stuff this evening Tragic...

Bah! Let's all move to Tokyo...

What, bike-thieving-crackheads included?

i'm with dogmatic. the man can count to ten. thats a fine thing in a man. any man can wield an iron bar. ... and all of us want to.

chin-up boss. in the end, it's only a charge plug, easily replaceable! lucky they didn't stab or shoot you.

34" Abus for frame+rear wheel

Mini D for front DV

Charge plug not locked @ home with the above locks, for junkies...

the big front lock cut so easily thought with those big cutter, I have my bike lock up in Fulham with a New York Mini D (Faggetabouit) and that lock, both locked on the bike rack.

4 hours later, the big bike lock disappear with what look like bizarre white powder on the floor, the NY D-lock have some marking from the tools they use thought.

I know I'm not helping, but it's probably worth pointing out that those big round flexible lock aren't that strong enough.

Hey Ed, I'm not getting you.

Do you mean your bike was nicked with the double lock, or that stopped it getting nicked?

so shit, I was thinking about the possibility of getting a bike jacked in the street last night, not only has this been confirmed on this thread but Tragic's experience is awful.

I've had this thought before...
Good reason not to stop at lights in the undesirable parts of yer own hood.

and Sano... i'm as lost as you are on the Ed lock note (?)

I think he's saying the Abus was broken, but they couldn't get through the NY fah mini.

I'm quite surprised they even tried - two locks is a lot of effort, especially with a fahgettaboudit.

I'd be on hourly patrols of Brick Lane and gumtree. It'll nearly definitely show up on one of them.

Gutted for you but when alls said and done you're pretty lucky. I'd be asking myself these 2 questions:

Did they know I had bikes and is that what they came for?
What are the chances of them coming back?

Te second question could scare the shit out of you. They may come back again when you're not in and your Mrs is asleep in your bed etc...