Apps being used to steal bikes

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Don't feed Strava misinformation unless you want to risk being kicked off. From their terms "If you provide any information that is inaccurate or not current, or Strava has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is inaccurate or not current, Strava has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use"

the support guy helping me out when I raised it has a support call had no issues with the privacy zone not being centered on my home and technically as I also stated earlier on, you don't have to use a postcode, you can use a name of a town or village which is what I do, so by that I am not providing innacurate information.

 

[jefmcg]

Don't feed Strava misinformation unless you want to risk being kicked off. From their terms "If you provide any information that is inaccurate or not current, or Strava has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is inaccurate or not current, Strava has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use"

There's no lying here. You aren't asserting strava you live there. It's just a privacy zone.

 

[DRHysted]

After all these stories I'm still more worried about the social housing estate 100 yards down the road.

 

[jefmcg]

A lot of us are leaving tracks online. And it doesn't take Sherlock to find out where you physically reside. No offence meant @jefmcg

I'm not sure why I should be offended. I was showing there were much simpler ways to find out her address. In the scenario she thinks occured, the thieves had already seen her on facebook, so my getting to her facebook page was all things the thieves didn't have to do. What i was showing was the last part - finding out where she lived was once they had seen her bike on FB - was in fact much easier than looking up multiple strava routes and guessing which destination was her house. All they had to do was look her up in the local phone book, which my dear departed nanna, born in the 19th century and died before the world wide web, could have done with ease.

Actually, there is nothing 21st century about this crime at all. If she did this ride in (say) 1991, her local free newspaper might have taken a picture of her, with her lovely bike, and added a short text with here name and mentioning she lived in Kokkedal. Local scumbag takes out his free whitepages, looks her up, and 20 minutes later is in possession of her bike. Or local scumbag sees her riding past, follows her home and takes the bike where she left it leaning against the wall. I'm imagining Kokkedal in 1991 as a place of peace and safety where no one locks their cars, and people walk in and out of their neighbours houses without knocking

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I don't use Strava or upload any details of my ride.

I tell everyone that I live I Finchley but really I live in Bognor

Yebbut Stalkers-R-us.com has - no 6 Finchley Road, Bognor and your bike shed is round the back (satellite view). Bolt cutters should be enough.......

 

[mjr]

If you look on Google street view you'll also see me sunbathing naked in the front garden.

It seems to have got confused about what's your face and blurred both ends. Although to be fair, I sometimes have problems deciding which end is producing the words

(Sorry, I don't really mean that but you set it up so lovelyly )

 

[Pale Rider]

It's possible the lass was tracked electronically by an international crime syndicate.

But the answer to this type of crime usually lies much closer to home.

My money is on the n'er do well son of a neighbour who has watched her coming and going on her bike.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

It seems to have got confused about what's your face and blurred both ends. Although to be fair, I sometimes have problems deciding which end is producing the words

(Sorry, I don't really mean that but you set it up so lovelyly )

I had to refrain from typing what I was thinking... this moderator lark can be frustrating at times

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

If you look on Google street view you'll also see me sunbathing naked in the front garden.

Oh - I thought that had been washed up during the high tide

 

[jefmcg]

Google streetview went down alleys in Australia. A friend told me that shortly after their back garden was photographed over a 2 metre fence, someone climbed that fence and broke into their house. That might be one I'd blame technology on.

Then there was this poor man photographed on his dunny

 

[Stephenite]

It was meant a bit tongue-in-cheek.

I'm imagining Kokkedal

When i imagine Kokkedal, or 'valley of cocks' in english, other images come to mind.

 

[jefmcg]

It was meant a bit tongue-in-cheek.



When i imagine Kokkedal, or 'valley of cocks' in english, other images come to mind.

?

 

[Tim Hall]

Of course, William of Occam suggests someone saw her ride into here garden with her tasty bike.

The William of Occam sounds like a grass. I've never trusted him, eyes too close together.

(Ob Cycling: I led a ride through Ockham a couple of months back and stopped to give a brief lecture about Occam's razor. For two points, what was the cycling related subject of my other talk, given outside the former Hautboy Hotel?)

 

[mjr]

For two points, what was the cycling related subject of my other talk, given outside the former Hautboy Hotel?

Storage of high-class male children and their bicycles.

 

[Stephenite]

Summat to do with wimmins libbers, dress codes and the like. Off the top of my head.