Blast!

[fivemack]

While having a nice meal with helenbr's sister this evening, somebody stole the bike that I'd bought just over five months ago from where I left it, wheel locked to frame but not locked to an immovable object through lack of convenient immovable objects, outside her front window. I'd jokingly checked at 8pm that the bike was still there; at 11pm, there it wasn't.

Blast.

It's postcoded, I've a photo of it, I don't have a record of the frame number and I'm not sure whether I've still got the receipt.

It's not really practical to walk to work, so I guess I'll be buying another bike tomorrow morning. Second-hand this time, assuming 2/h bike shops are open on Sundays around here.

Once again, blast.

Comments

[annafdd.livejournal.com]

Back in my student days, when I really needed a bike and I lived in a student area, their half-life was about two months. I bought them second hand, cheap (from vendors that were not, *probably* buying stolen goods) and the more battered-looking the better because it increased the time they spent with me. My record was a rather nice-looking bike that was stolen only a week after I'd bought it.

Now that I live in the suburb, my bikes are snubbed by bike thieves. I lock them but I might as well not bother. I mean, the steal them anyway, but they last a couple of years instead of a couple of months.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

*shakes fist at sneak-thieves*

I wonder if there's a market for some sort of permanent-enough-to-deter-theft-but-not-impossible-to-install immovable objects to which bikes could be chained?

[(Anonymous)]

You mean huge pink drogues?

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Blast and indeed damn. Vehicle thieves=scum of the earth.