Theft Warning......do you use a cycle computer e.g. Garmin??
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albion
Guru
The warning is very much needed.
A fair percentage do not even know that anyone and everyone can see where they live ect etc.
Fact is these companies default to the most dangerous setting in order to further promote their service.
Teir cop out is that it is all in the terms and conditions that no one understands even if they do read it.
A fair percentage do not even know that anyone and everyone can see where they live ect etc.
Fact is these companies default to the most dangerous setting in order to further promote their service.
Teir cop out is that it is all in the terms and conditions that no one understands even if they do read it.
G3CWI
Veteran
- Location
- Macclesfield
If you wanted to steal bikes try a bike shop.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
another reason to just ride a bike and enjoy without all the modcons
- Location
- Glasgow
So do I, choosing the "use the Garmin plug in" option.
Pedrosanchezo
Veteran
- Location
- Perthshire, scotland
Just start and stop your gps either at your road end or at a specific distance from home. Safe.
I am more concerned about the local burglars who see me enter and leave my house on my bike every day to be honest!
These are the ones who broke into my shed. Unfortunately I have no invisibility cloak to engage within a 0.5 mile radius of my house to stop them seeing me!
That being said, I do have a privacy zone on Strava set to the local school, and my Garmin activities default to private only to me.
These are the ones who broke into my shed. Unfortunately I have no invisibility cloak to engage within a 0.5 mile radius of my house to stop them seeing me!
That being said, I do have a privacy zone on Strava set to the local school, and my Garmin activities default to private only to me.
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
So I assume you have no computer at home? After all, it's just another modern convenience also, you don't really need one.
I believe if you use a bike computer, then you just use some common-sense when deciding what ride data to share, just as you would take care with (for example) your personal financial details stored at home.
Cow Pie
Senior Member
- Location
- Wherever I'm sent
Why would they go to the lengths of going online, downloading Connect, hacking your account, waiting in the right area to see you are on a ride, checking the area is safe and then breaking into your house.
Wouldn't it be easier to do what they do now. Break into your shed at night or wait until you are at work (most people are during the day), then break into your house.
It's been a tried and tested method for them for a long, long time and it seems to work well for the thieving cockwombles. It requires zero technology. Only a crowbar and the ability to tell the time. Or just mug you as you pass by on your bike.
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Wouldn't it be easier to do what they do now. Break into your shed at night or wait until you are at work (most people are during the day), then break into your house.
It's been a tried and tested method for them for a long, long time and it seems to work well for the thieving cockwombles. It requires zero technology. Only a crowbar and the ability to tell the time. Or just mug you as you pass by on your bike.
Just saying like
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
yes i have a home pc with quite a few levels of protection , so yes i am not a ludite
Cyclopathic
Veteran
- Location
- Leicester.
Just start recording outside someone else's house.
WindyRob
Veteran
- Location
- On the doorstep to the Southdowns
Lost my pride and joy to some scum bag last night. Just moved to the Bournemouth area and have only ridden twice since moving in late 2014. When i was phoning in the serial numbers to the police call centre the operative asked if i lived near a particular road, i replied that i did it joined the end of my road. She then replied that another house in that road had also just reported a high end road bike had been stolen that night. It made me wonder if the the scumbag had been led to both our properties by Strava or garmin Connect. Mrs Windy was woken by the side gate banging and saw one person cycle off on my bike and wheeling hers alongside. I woke and stumbled around getting some clothes on and then rushed out to drive the local streets to see if i could catch him, not a trace. If it was the same person doing the two addresses then i suspect that he had a van and was not necessarily a local.
Really hoping that the insurance company cough up. just read the small print and was wondering does a locked shed constitute a building? bikes were locked together inside but i hadn''t got round to anchoring to the concrete base?
Really hoping that the insurance company cough up. just read the small print and was wondering does a locked shed constitute a building? bikes were locked together inside but i hadn''t got round to anchoring to the concrete base?
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Not the most plausible explanation really. isnt it more likely the local scrote just kept his eyes open in the street, or even lesss complicated, stole bikes from the sheds that had bikes in thwt night, but didn,t bother stealing the tins of paint gone hard from the other sheds in the road
WindyRob
Veteran
- Location
- On the doorstep to the Southdowns
I think it relatively unlikely that I was seen leaving or returning to the house, I've only ridden twice from the house so he would have to have picked the right 4 minutes in a month and half. It was only when the police said that another had been nicked from around the corner that i wondered if it had any connection
