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Stolen Bike Registry - do this when your bike gets stolen

"With all the stolen bike posts lately (and no one thinking "I wonder if there's something under Useful Links for this."), I think it's well past time to make a sticky about the Stolen Bike Registry"

 - Tank-Ridin' Ryan

 

Well said Ryan.

 

 

http://chicago.stolenbike.org/

 

Done and done.

 

And sticky too.

 

 

Cheers - Lee Diamond

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1s20gdv3auw5hPermalink Reply by 1s20gdv3auw5h on July 15, 2013 at 8:22pm

Cycling in Chicagoland this weekend doesn't get much better!  

;-)

Permalink Reply by Mark McEachran on July 29, 2013 at 3:26pm

They kicked in the back door to the building to get to my bike.  Maybe they were thinking of stealing something else, but I was home so they took the bikes and moved on.

It happened on Friday afternoon (July 26th).

Bike 1 is a Trek 820 from the late 90s/early 2000s.   It's red and black and sports a red Manitou front fork with the black accordion dust covers.  The gooseneck is really beefy, chrome and shiny.  I had a Kryptonite Fuggedaboutit lock mounted where the water bottle is (see photo) and a seat-post supported basket rack on the back.  The thing is a beast, very heavy.  It has been on many adventures with me.  I had a garmin watch mount, and lights galore on the thing.  Two headlights (one old cateye and one of those new little LED jobbies) and at least one taillight (LED).

Bike 2 is a two-tone green Specialized or Trek.  Sadly, I don't have photos of it and I'm short on photos because my wife didn't adventure with it much.  But it had a wide, cushy seat and there was a shock built into the seat-post.  Her krypto lock was mounted to the side, near the rear wheel.  I think she had a little handle-bar bell on top.

The bikes weren't locked up... because they were inside the building, behind a locked door, which leads out to a gated driveway.  Triple-redundancy seemed a bit much, but I guess it's not.

Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on July 29, 2013 at 3:56pm

Sorry to hear Mark.

You should file two seperate reports here:

http://stolenbike.org

Mark McEachran said:

They kicked in the back door to the building to get to my bike.  Maybe they were thinking of stealing something else, but I was home so they took the bikes and moved on.

It happened on Friday afternoon (July 26th).

Bike 1 is a Trek 820 from the late 90s/early 2000s.   It's red and black and sports a red Manitou front fork with the black accordion dust covers.  The gooseneck is really beefy, chrome and shiny.  I had a Kryptonite Fuggedaboutit lock mounted where the water bottle is (see photo) and a seat-post supported basket rack on the back.  The thing is a beast, very heavy.  It has been on many adventures with me.  I had a garmin watch mount, and lights galore on the thing.  Two headlights (one old cateye and one of those new little LED jobbies) and at least one taillight (LED).

Bike 2 is a two-tone green Specialized or Trek.  Sadly, I don't have photos of it and I'm short on photos because my wife didn't adventure with it much.  But it had a wide, cushy seat and there was a shock built into the seat-post.  Her krypto lock was mounted to the side, near the rear wheel.  I think she had a little handle-bar bell on top.

The bikes weren't locked up... because they were inside the building, behind a locked door, which leads out to a gated driveway.  Triple-redundancy seemed a bit much, but I guess it's not.

Permalink Reply by Mark McEachran on July 30, 2013 at 1:56pm

I found a more recent photo:

Mark McEachran said:

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Permalink Reply by Alison Hightower on August 4, 2013 at 8:13pm

Stolen Bike: 2012 all black Trek Soho Deluxe

Stolen from LP Zoo today between 11am-12:30pm

Bike had CoPilot Taxi child seat mounted on rear at the time it was stolen. Please be on the look out. And contact Mike Hightower if you find it. 708.941.0568 / mhightower81 at gmail.com

Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on August 4, 2013 at 9:09pm

Alison, sorry about your bike!

Unfortunately there are thieves that target the zoo on virtually every nice summer day.  Almost always cable locks though-- yours might be the first ever report I've seen of a U-lock cut within that park.

Permalink Reply by Alison Hightower on August 5, 2013 at 7:22am

We had a cable and u-lock. The cable was cut--the u-lock was still in tact. Our bikes were locked together to a city bike rack. My bike and our helmets were left behind. Thief definitely knew what to look for because he grabbed the more valuable bike and left mine. 

h' 1.0 said:

Alison, sorry about your bike!

Unfortunately there are thieves that target the zoo on virtually every nice summer day.  Almost always cable locks though-- yours might be the first ever report I've seen of a U-lock cut within that park.

Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on August 5, 2013 at 9:01am

horrible.  

Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on August 5, 2013 at 9:18am

Thanks for the clarification.

Alison Hightower said:

We had a cable and u-lock. The cable was cut--the u-lock was still in tact. Our bikes were locked together to a city bike rack. My bike and our helmets were left behind. Thief definitely knew what to look for because he grabbed the more valuable bike and left mine. 

h' 1.0 said:

Alison, sorry about your bike!

Unfortunately there are thieves that target the zoo on virtually every nice summer day.  Almost always cable locks though-- yours might be the first ever report I've seen of a U-lock cut within that park.

Permalink Reply by Will on August 20, 2013 at 9:50am

There were SIX bikes stolen from the garage in my condo building near Ashland and Diversey late 8/18 or early 8/19. Some of the bikes were locked, some not. Among them was my Tangerine orange 1997 Cannondale M300 LE mountain bike with Swobo saddle and Felt seatpost, which I purchased to replace the Swobo that was stolen from the same location a little over two months ago.

When my Swobo was stolen, evidence pointed to a homeless person who just wandered into the open garage. Yesterday was likely a more organized theft, probably more than one person trolling the alley in a van or box truck, looking for opportunities.

Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on August 20, 2013 at 10:40am

21% (19 out of 90) of this month's reports to the CSBR were of unlocked bikes stolen out of garages which were left open by a spouse, significant other, roommate, neighbor, contractor or the owner's own inadvertence. 

Permalink Reply by Will on August 20, 2013 at 11:31am

Just to be clear, I'm not completely sure the garage door was left open in my case. It's possible it was (only via mechanical malfunction, it's supposed to be an auto-closing door), but also possible access was gained some other way. I didn't look closely, but there were no obvious signs of forced entry.

Kevin C said:

21% (19 out of 90) of this month's reports to the CSBR were of unlocked bikes stolen out of garages which were left open by a spouse, significant other, roommate, neighbor, contractor or the owner's own inadvertence. 

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