More stolen bikes :(

Sorry about having your bike nicked but I would advise you to BUY A £50 BEATER ... If it ain't worth nicking, it won't get nicked.

Sorry about having your bike nicked but I would advise you to BUY A £50 BEATER ... If it ain't worth nicking, it won't get nicked.

I really think a fg/ss bike in ANY condition will get nicked. Look at some of the stickered-up beaters on the stolen thread. I suppose you could have some cheapo Halfords-esque hybrid for nights out, but that would entail going home to get it every time, oh and I don't want to ride a shit bike.

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The whole point is that even if it does get stolen you haven't had anything nice nicked.

You don't have to ride a totally shit bike around, it takes an afternoon doing some basic maintenance to get a bike running decently.

Its a nice feeling if its not the end of the world if your bike gets stolen. But on the other hand why shouldn't we be able to use a nice bike when we feel like it?

But on the other hand why shouldn't we be able to use a nice bike when we feel like it?

Because ... we don't live in a world made out of butter candy with cute teddy bears, that are holding a 8 year's girls hand while she marvels on the simplicity of the daisy that she is holding while cheery blossom floats majestically in the breeze.....

The facts are if you have nice looking shiny stuff being that a swanky wrist watch, an iPhone, a nice necklace or even a nice looking bike ... someone will be about that will want to steal it ... that is the situation, end of.

they will steal anything. my friend had the most ridiculous kids bike ever. The 'wild thing' we called it. We joked she could leave it unlocked no bother - that she could go up to a thief and GIVE It to them, and they would give it back.

Much to my amazement, I had a phone call not so long ago to tell me the wild thing had been stolen. Somewhere out there is a very unlucky, unhappy kid, riding a real piece of shit bike that his daddy stole for him one time.

Nothing will surprise me in this city.

*if you see an amazingly crap red kids bike with 'Wild Thing' emblazoned on it, cruising around town, feel free to point and laugh at them for expending their energy on cutting a lock to steal the most ridiculous crap heap of rubbish ever to grace the streets of london. RIP Wild Thing - you are sadly missed :(