Theft of Strange Part of Bike

Hi,

last night I had the top of my gear shifters stolen. The top casing of them was removed to reveal all the bits inside. anyone know why someone would do that? Unless someone had the top of their own exact same model gear shifters stolen, and therefore started a cycle of crime. I just don't get it. Maybe its like collecting the old VW badges or summat? but the gears are just on my commuter, and not valuable or special in any way. Bloody dainty and precise vandals.

Iain

Weird mate. Maybe they were pissed?

^ The thieves that is.

Sorry to hear that...sounds more like random mischeivousness/vandalism more than anything else.

yeah, its well weird. pissed and with tools!

and quite hard to replace the bits.

anyone know why someone would do that?

Because they could.

if you think it needs more logic then assume the thieves had a bike with the same shifters that were broken, and they stole your parts to put on it so they could flog it.

see your point RPM, but can't imagine the sort of bike with those shifters is worth much, certainly not worth scouring about for exact model shifters, and this was at night too.

It could be that those exact parts were broken on their bike, they randomly spotted that you had the same, and they half-inched yours given the opportunity.

The perfect crime. Even if you met them with their bike, there's no way you could prove that they had stolen the top covers of your gear shifters. ;)

Some people are scum they will steal anything. I had a small plant pot with some ivy stolen from outside my front door once. When I bought a new heavier pot and put more plants in. They just ripped out all the plants instead and left them on the ground.

I stopped trying to work out peoples rationale a long time ago.

Someone took my spokecards one night, but I guess thats probably down to pissed curiosity. Still, kind of annoying.

Someone once took both brake lever barrel adjusters from my mountain bike.

Found myself freewheeling down a very big hill with no means of stopping.

Sorry about that, I thought it would make a nice ashtray.

Someone stole my light bracket. I really hope they made good use of it otherwise it's just a stupid thing to do.

I've had my barplugs stolen

it was probably the same magpie thief that stole all the above bits, and has a weird hybrid junk bike built of plants, cards and bolts. this bloody country!

I've seen someone come out of a nightclub to find that their saddle had been stolen. And replaced with a different one. Apparently the one that went had shock-absorber seatpost which he'd found annoying and been meaning to replace anyway.

moth, that's the perfect crime

A single pedal stolen once. Good thing i was close to home.

i had some dudes break into my garage and steal my cycle computer....wtf, they didn't even take the actual magnet thing, fucking idiots.

someone took the bullets out of my Kimel 9mm semi automatic and now I can't use it anymore....some people eh!

someone took my d lock bracket off my bike once and I had literally just left my bike for half an hour...WTF

^ It's for the best

^ It's for the best

+1