mr_cellophane
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Look at this bloke at 30 seconds
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tff0nPe2Y5I
Is he a victim or thief ?
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tff0nPe2Y5I
Is he a victim or thief ?
goo_mason said:Three years ago we had two nicked from our stair (this was before I took up cycling) - one was my neighbour's £1000 road bike which he'd left out for less than 24hrs. Now - we live at the top of 4 flights of stairs, and the bike would not have been visible from the bottom. It was either a very opportunist thief who chose that one day to get in and drag himself all that way up just in case, or - as we suspected - the postie may have been tipping people off... He'd have been the only one to come up to the top floor the day the bike was out and seen it.
goo_mason said:A while after that, we had someone apparently come in and knock out one of the railings (plus a big slab of stone stair) to pinch a bike that - again - had been locked up there for less than 24hrs.
Nortones2 said:The antidote is to commute on a Raleigh Superb: I used one for 4 years at Uni. No-one would dream of riding it, never mind steal it. Never locked, never nicked. Damn. I had to leave it behind in Handsworth Bham. I still feel guilty. Probably still just behind the back garden gate.....
Hairy Jock said:Or someone flyering the stair, or the Herald & Post guys, or...