[NMCycling] Bike theft questions

Tue Mar 6 13:00:15 MST 2018

I had a bike stolen from my garage when I left my garage door open. Then I had another bike stolen when I left my garage door open again ….

My favorite was an attempted bike theft right outside the nasty Chinese food place that was near where Central and Lomas meet. Person left bike outside by window of restaurant and placed order. Homeless dude sauntered up and got on bike and started riding away. The owner of the restaurant and the 3 schmuck customers (self included) ran him down and got bike back, with owner of restaurant cussing the thief out in Chinese.

Life in the 505

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From: Bike-racers [mailto:bike-racers-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Tim Brown via Bike-racers
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2018 12:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [NMCycling] Bike theft questions

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I had one bike stolen off a friend's front porch while dropping something off. I was inside for less than five minutes, so now I'm a stickler for locking with a U-lock always, no matter how long.

My sister has had two unlocked bikes stolen out of her garage when she left the door open.

A friend had his cable locked bike stolen from outside O'Neill's.

A friend had his stolen off his car in a supposed watched valet lot. He made a conscious choice to leave the bike unlocked because it's worth much less than the damage to the car would have been if someone were to pry the rack off the roof. That one had a happy ending as he saw it on Craigslist, met the seller, and called the cops.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 10:02 AM, Jackie Shane via Bike-racers <bike-racers at mailman.swcp.com<mailto:bike-racers at mailman.swcp.com>> wrote:
Two bikes stolen, but never with a u-lock.
Jackie

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Diane Albert via Bike-racers <bike-racers at mailman.swcp.com<mailto:bike-racers at mailman.swcp.com>> wrote:
I had 2 bikes stolen because I left the garage door open (Uptown)

I had a bike stolen outside the UNM Law school front entrance because I had it locked with a cable, not u lock.

Diane

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Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 9:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [NMCycling] Bike theft questions

I've had an empty Yakima rack stolen off a car in my driveway via the crowbar method.  Remember that the rack itself is worth some coin.  The car next to it also had a Yakima rack, but with rain gutter mounts and they couldn't pry those off.  They ruined the trim on the car trying though.  Three bikes stolen from my parent's garage a couple of decades ago.  They took one because my dad left the garage door open.  A couple of weeks later they came back when nobody was home and collected the rest.
Right now all my bikes are locked up in the garage.  Like you said, I'm hoping that will slow them down enough to where it isn't worth it.  Maybe they won't just smash or hacksaw the frames to collect the components.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 9:11 AM, mike via Bike-racers <bike-racers at mailman.swcp.com<mailto:bike-racers at mailman.swcp.com>> wrote:
In the interest of conversation, I’ve been wondering about keeping my bikes from getting stolen by learning from other’s tragedies.

It seems like mostly the stolen bikes have had a cable cut.

How many have lost a bike that’s had a chain or U-lock cut/broken?

I’ve heard of lots of the bikes taken off of racks. I’m assuming these are racks that hold bikes with both wheels attached. How many bikes have been stolen where the bikes are attached with a fork mount (with the front wheel removed)?

My theory is that it’s easy to just ride a bike away, but the extra time it takes to defeat the lock AND  remove the fork from a rack makes my bike a less attractive target. Especially if there’s no front wheel to ride away on. It is a couple extra steps to secure the bike, however, for me it’s worth it. Yes, they can steal the bike with no front wheel, but it’s not as attractive as an entire bike.
It depends on how much your bike or bling on your bike is worth.

I wonder about bikes stolen from garages. Are both wheels on the bike in the garage?
Even in the garage, I take the front wheel off. If I’m gone for any length of time I lock my bikes with a chain. Although inside the garage a thief has much more time to defeat my security.

The bottom line is that anything can be stolen. The trick is to make my stuff not worth the extra effort. Thieves are looking for an easy target. My task is to balance the effort to secure my stuff with the effort to use it.

What systems have worked? Have you found evidence of someone attempting to steal your bike, but were defeated? What was your system?

Just wonderin’
mike lucero

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