HI PLEASE CAN YOU HELP?
THIS VERY EXPENSIVE ROAD BIKE
WAS STOLEN OUTSIDE THE TESCO EXPRESS OPPOSITE BLOCKBUSTER´S IN CHORLTON THIS MORNING 22ND OCTOBER 8.00 AM.
I HAVE A small!! REWARD ESPECIALLY IF SOMEBODY OFFERS YOU THE BIKE IN THE MANCHESTER AREA.
PLEASE INFORM THE POLICE STRAIGHTAWAY OR CONTACT ME.
I WAS OFF ON A BIKE RIDE WHEN I POPPED INTO TESCO AND A CALLOUS THIEF DECIDED TO HELP THEMSELVES.
MANY MANY THANKS
A WELL- NAFFED OFF MANCHESTER CITIZEN
Well given the number of kids I see riding fixies I wouldn't be happy to leave a bike unlocked myself.My fixie is never locked... ever. This on the basis that most thieves would be discouraged after a single turn of the cranks.
Golly Gosh!
Some of the above is almost vitriolic... ripping into a man who probably regrets not taking a lock when going on a ride.
(It's the frame that the journalist says weighs a kilo... so not such awful journailism on that front. Perhaps on others, but I'm no judge.)
I've often gone for a ride lockless and had to leave a bike for a few seconds. Nothing worth more than £1200, but I've done so and will do so again. It happens. Some of us are less obsessive about property and security than others. It is not yet a crime.
It's just a bicycle. It was left unlocked and the poor chap has lost it. I've left keys in the ignition of a car overnight in east London before now... Quite a nice (nickable) car too. I deserved to have it stolen, but I was lucky.
My fixie is never locked... ever. This on the basis that most thieves would be discouraged after a single turn of the cranks. Even my posh (ish) road bike and HT are only locked when in the smoke... and then only with a £10 cable lock. I haven't had one of those weighty, solid U-lock things since my motorcycle days.
Lighten up people.... The owner might welcome a little sympathy and you're turning on him like the UCI turned on the poor astronaut chap who won that bike race.
It does actually say in the report "The grey and matt black FRAME weighs just one kilo".
(It's the frame that the journalist says weighs a kilo... so not such awful journailism on that front. Perhaps on others, but I'm no judge.)
Yes, the online version has been updated since I linked to it yesterday.The paper article says "The grey and matt black bike weighs just one kilo". So the internet report has been altered.
I have been out locally on my Brompton on the basis that it was safer to be able to take that with me into shops then to lock my hack bike outside sometimes.there's a lot to be said for not having a lock as a sure fire means of bicycle security... but the idea is you never leave it unattended.
I did without a lock for years and on the odd occasion a shopkeeper said "you can't bring that in 'ere." I'd go to a different shop.