Carrera Crixus stolen - Can't teach a 14 yr old other than by experience

[Flying Dodo]

It's this sort of incident that makes me think about a bike sting.

Leave a cheap bike with a cheap lock somewhere, but the wheels and brakes are accidently loose, because of course I'm intending to take it to be fixed.

Except of course I wouldn't do that as I'd feel too guilty in case someone innocent got hurt.

 

[Drago]

I'd do it!

 

[Arjimlad]

Not much use if the bike's going straight into a van though..

 

[Drago]

Pretty sure most bike thieves don't have a van in their pocket. Some will, but not most light fingers.
Its a chance I'd be willing to take with a sabotaged bike .

 

[Arjimlad]

My area's plagued with vans cruising around for scrap and anything else pinchable.

 

[mikeIow]

I was in Leicester once on my ancient old bike, looking at cars.
Leaned it up against a fence, wandered about briefly, then had a policeman come up to me and say "was that your bike there?", pointing to where I'd left it.
I said "yes", looked, and it was gone
He said "don't worry, we were driving on the ring road & saw a bloke looking suspicious, we have him round the corner"
A two minute walk to the old Campbell Street Police Station, quick statement & I was on my way home. On my bike!

THAT is efficient policing

 

[Arjimlad]

I was in Leicester once on my ancient old bike, looking at cars.
Leaned it up against a fence, wandered about briefly, then had a policeman come up to me and say "was that your bike there?", pointing to where I'd left it.
I said "yes", looked, and it was gone
He said "don't worry, we were driving on the ring road & saw a bloke looking suspicious, we have him round the corner"
A two minute walk to the old Campbell Street Police Station, quick statement & I was on my way home. On my bike!

THAT is efficient policing

Well worth resurrecting this for that story, if only there'd been a watchful officer about when my son left his bike by the duck pond !

He still talks about it today and it has been a lesson to him to lock his bike, which he appears to have heeded.

 

[Johnno260]

It's this sort of incident that makes me think about a bike sting.

Leave a cheap bike with a cheap lock somewhere, but the wheels and brakes are accidently loose, because of course I'm intending to take it to be fixed.

Except of course I wouldn't do that as I'd feel too guilty in case someone innocent got hurt.

If someone takes it they’re a thief and not innocent, lesson learnt on the thief’s part perhaps.

 

[rogerzilla]

It's this sort of incident that makes me think about a bike sting.

Leave a cheap bike with a cheap lock somewhere, but the wheels and brakes are accidently loose, because of course I'm intending to take it to be fixed.

Except of course I wouldn't do that as I'd feel too guilty in case someone innocent got hurt.

Done quite elegantly here.

View: https://youtu.be/p-OwjoP96Rc


And here.

View: https://youtu.be/xHvPf_xdXEQ

 

[steveindenmark]

The fact that he had a cable lock on the bike and could not be bothered to use it means you should take him outside and give him "A damn good thrashing"

 

[Deleted member 26715]

The fact that he had a cable lock on the bike and could not be bothered to use it means you should take him outside and give him "A damn good thrashing"

Yes because we all know a father beating up his son will teach him a lesson he won't forget