Swap-o-rama

I went to the swap-o-rama on Ashland this past Saturday in the futile attempt to find my stolen bike. I was surprised with all the talk about stolen bikes showing up here, how few bikes were being sold throughout the place. There were only a handful of bikes at all.

 

Are the other swap-o-rama's more likely to carry more bikes? Or have there been so many busts that the bike thieves are evolving?

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on July 5, 2011 at 11:37am
Lugo- it took us awhile last week to find the spot where most of the higher end adult bikes are sold. I can't explain where, but its in one of the corners of the outdoor space which is huge.

We def saw at least a dozen higher end bikes but didn't have time to do a lot of searching against the registry.
Permalink Reply by Bernard Joseph Hannigan on July 5, 2011 at 1:10pm
Did anyone check the SOR south on 294?...They may be taking them out of the city, that venue is huge.
Permalink Reply by Lugo on July 6, 2011 at 6:39am
I went from corner to corner and didn't see much. Ok, just checking to make sure I wasn't a total doof. THANKS!
Permalink Reply by Lugo on July 6, 2011 at 6:47am
Good point. I'll probably go again this Saturday. If anyone wants me to look out for anything let me know.
Permalink Reply by Matt Mrozinski on July 7, 2011 at 1:01pm

H3N3, good to hear. I've hit SOR Saturday, Sunday, and today in the week since my bike got nabbed from my house, and am starting to give up hope... I walked in today saying, "third times a charm" but maybe saturday i can walk in and be like, "bonanza." At least I have found my serial number since last week. I saw some sketchy looking nicer bikes today that probably weren't even noticed missing, just like mine was last week. One in particular, i hadn't heard of the brand name before but it might have been italian-sounding and started with a "G." On sunday I think noticed a black frame with blue highlights (might have been in the tires) that was kind of being hidden underneath/between a truck and somebody's stand.

 

Lugo, what are you looking for on saturday? I'm missing a bianchi pista seafoam green (only one in this color i've personally seen in chicago) which is on the stolen bike registry and bike shepherd alerts and has serial no#H6J08312 and the police report no#HT373776. Hopefully we can all enjoy the rest of our summers with recovered bikes and bring the spark back into life that's been missing (at least for me) since these unfortunate incidents. :) I'll sure as donkey sh!t be back there again on at least saturday and sunday before I call it quits and head out for a little vacation time.

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