Back on bike

[ewx]

I have my bike back. When I reached it it was locked only with my lock, but had fallen or been knocked to the ground, damaging the front mudguard, and it took a couple of tries to get it back in gear. Bizarrely on top of it was lying a sawn through D-lock, different to the one that had previously been restraining it. So, er, WTF?

Comments

[arnhem]

A possible model of a mechanism for theft of bikes:

Go up to a bike you would like to nick; lock your bike so that your lock restrains the other bike; wait.

How many times do you suppose people get to their bike, unlock their lock, discover that their bike has been immobilised by someone else's lock, and then forget to put their lock back on because they're so stressed by this?

[ewx]

I suppose it's possible but I'd be surprised if people forget very often!

[armb]

Another model I've seen mentioned: put additional lock on bike, come back later in van with whatever tools (big boltcroppers, hydraulic jack, length of scaffold pole, etc.) you think are needed for the owner's lock when owner is forced to leave it overnight. "Bugger owners lock with screwdriver or glue so it won't unlock" also works for this.
Doesn't explain your situation though.

[ex_lark_asc]

My response to this happening was to lock my lock round their bike in the same way, then leave a note on their handlebars.. I got a rather stressed phone call a few hours later :)

[bellinghman]

Cambridge bike thieves are weird.

I used to have a nice bike, which used to be left outside the front of our house down in Romsey. One morning I went out, and it was just gone.

I did the usual - go over to Parkside Police Station, reported it missing, contacted the insurance company, the lot. As it happened, I didn't hugely need it at the time, so didn't get round to replacing it for a while.

And in the end, I didn't replace it. It just reappeared about a week later, still locked, in the same place I left it.

[mair_aw]

I had several bikes over my time in Cambridge. The only one which got nicked was one which I had bought off a friend after he'd left it unlocked in his garden for a year *hoping* it would get nicked ...