My Green & Black Carbon Orbea Orca Bike Was Stolen 2 Hours Ago!

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Permalink Reply by Duppie on May 7, 2010 at 10:18am

While you may think that $150 is not a lot, I think you are in the minority.

I think most people have a hard time assessing the risks that are associated with doing certain common things (like locking up a bike, driving while texting, riding your bike through a red light, etc.). How else do you explain this expensive bike being locked up downtown with a combination cable lock (per her entry at the stolenbikeregistry)? I think that the owner, based on her experiences and judgment, might have thought it was OK.

So if your experiences tell you that locking up a bike with an combination cable lock is OK, you are likely not even thinking about buying additional protection.

Besides hoping that Seri does get her bike back, I can only hope that posting about this might prevent future bike thefts


Michael A said:

It is very easy, and inexpensive to get a rider put on your renter's insurance to cover expensive bikes. I have several bikes well over that pricepoint, it costs $150 bucks extra a year to insure, with a $250 deduct

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Permalink Reply by Seri97 on May 7, 2010 at 12:56pm

Duppie,

We hear stories on the Chainlink and elsewhere of ulocks being cut as well. If someone wants your bike badly enough, they will find a way to take it. One solution might be to use an inexpensive bike that can be replaced and or not leaving your bike ever. Both options have thier disadvantages.

Duppie said:

While you may think that $150 is not a lot, I think you are in the minority.

I think most people have a hard time assessing the risks that are associated with doing certain common things (like locking up a bike, driving while texting, riding your bike through a red light, etc.). How else do you explain this expensive bike being locked up downtown with a combination cable lock (per her entry at the stolenbikeregistry)? I think that the owner, based on her experiences and judgment, might have thought it was OK.

So if your experiences tell you that locking up a bike with an combination cable lock is OK, you are likely not even thinking about buying additional protection.

Besides hoping that Seri does get her bike back, I can only hope that posting about this might prevent future bike thefts


Michael A said:

It is very easy, and inexpensive to get a rider put on your renter's insurance to cover expensive bikes. I have several bikes well over that pricepoint, it costs $150 bucks extra a year to insure, with a $250 deduct

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Permalink Reply by Juan 2-3 or more mi. on May 7, 2010 at 5:54pm

I know the pain of losing a bicycle to theft. If it is nice and not near, it will most likely be gone in the shitty. Its a funny thing, out in da burbs some fancy bike shops just leave their merchandise out in the streets unlocked. Shocking to me having been a city rat all my life.

Tank-Ridin' Ryan said:

I have to disagree. Don't go lock up a $6000 dollar bike anywhere is pretty helpful, if only for the future.

heather stratton said:

That's not really a helpful comment.
Mike said:

im very sorry that you lost your bike, but if you're going to play the price tag card, in my opinion you should not have locked that nice of a bike anywhere downtown for any amount of time... none of my bikes are "$6000 bikes", however I am concerned about having my bikes taken, therefore they are either adequately locked up or they come everywhere with me.

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