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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Permalink Reply by Jordan Snow on June 14, 2013 at 7:00am
1s20gdv3auw5hPermalink Reply by 1s20gdv3auw5h on June 20, 2013 at 5:12am

Wish I new where all the bikes were going.  2 stolen from my family in the last year.

The bright side . . . our stolen bikes were not the expensive ones in the family.

Permalink Reply by Ryan L on June 25, 2013 at 2:57pm

We recovered a stolen bike at our shop today due to this registry so it does work. Keep it up :)

Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on June 25, 2013 at 5:21pm

nice!

Ryan L said:

We recovered a stolen bike at our shop today due to this registry so it does work. Keep it up :)

Permalink Reply by John on July 10, 2013 at 10:01am

Today a Blue Bridgestone RBT and a Chrome Ross Mt. Whitney were stolen out of my apartment hallway at George and Whipple in Logan Square/Avondale. Please look at the pics and call the police if seen.

call 773-770-5590

I love these bikes, and worked long and hard on them. please throw a u lock on them if possible. 

Bridgestone RBT
- Powder Blue 
- 56cm 
- Mavic Open Pro wheels,
- Superbe gruppo, 
- front/rear Blackburn racks, 
- and brooks imperial b17.

and

Ross Mt. Whitney.
- chrome
- turbo saddle
- XT gruppo

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Permalink Reply by Julia 3.5/7.5 mi on July 12, 2013 at 6:25am

Tuesday 7/9 - white male took took a bike and a front wheel from the rack outside my building in the south loop. Both were students' bikes, and both guys are super bummed. We have camera footage, witness, and a report with campus security, but I'll also have them post on stolenbike.

The fixie looked like this: it'll be riding around with a black tire on the front, if the thief hasn't switched it yet.

Permalink Reply by Fran Kondorf on July 12, 2013 at 10:18am

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/bik/3930273348.html

Gee, I thought that pic was familiar- same one?

Permalink Reply by Julia 3.5/7.5 mi on July 13, 2013 at 3:38pm
Well I'll be... I hadn't checked Craigslist myself, but I know the guys did. I'll pass along the info and have them touch base with the seller for a test ride.
1s20gdv3auw5hPermalink Reply by 1s20gdv3auw5h on July 15, 2013 at 2:22pm

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

;-)

Permalink Reply by Mark McEachran on July 29, 2013 at 9:26am

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 7:56am

I found a more recent photo:

Mark McEachran said:

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Permalink Reply by Alison Hightower on August 4, 2013 at 2:13pm

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

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