This is slightly off topic, but I wish I could say that bike thieves in my area were mainly drug-needy. Unfortunately we have have had several rashes of high end bike thefts that generally occur in more upscale close-in neighbohoods. The thieves tend to hit several garages in the same neighborhoods until they either are stopped or decide to hit a different neighborhood.
There was one series of thefts where the guy was actually a road biker and would befriend people on group rides with the most expensive bikes and later steal those same bikes! The police finally caught him though red handed and IIRC he was nabbed with several hundred thousand dollars worth of bikes in his possession. I'm not sure if many people who are focused on high end racing bikes would know what to think of a Rivendell, but an astute thief certainly would. It makes me sad that we even have to post about this stuff. Until we can send all the bike thieves to Jabba the Hut's "Great *Pit* of Carkoon" where they will be slowly digested over a thousand years, be careful of who's peeking in your garage. -Jim On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 4:42 AM, ascpgh <asc....@gmail.com> wrote: > I have no idea how the food chain of locks plays in the typical drug-needy > bike thief, they are looking for items to sell fast, at a known price. Here > the police responding to a friend's break-in said there are dealer of hot > goods that frequent certain convenience store parking lots and have sort > of a fixed price wholesale trade; CDs $3, DVDs $5, laptops $50, and bikes > usually trade from junkie thieves for $20. I don't think the aforethought > of a cordless angle grinder and ability to spot a secluded-enough bike to > chop free occurs in this criminal subset. The good news about this tier of > thief is that they are not discriminating, any bike will score them the > same price. > > Someone willing to fight better security of location and locking is a > bike-specific thief and those rings do move around regions to hit the > value, fill their till and move on before their pattern is clear to > enforcement. Info on the guy with Rusty Clicks Sam will be interesting to > hear. one of those rings and individuals making contacts locally, > establishing a background that built plausibility for higher volume of > parts and frames for sale. They disappear when someone starts asking > questions. > > Andy Cheatham > Pittsburgh > On Thursday, September 11, 2014 12:00:15 PM UTC-4, Jim M. wrote: > >> On Thursday, September 11, 2014 7:46:54 AM UTC-7, Andrew Marchant-Shapiro >> wrote: >>> >>> Which raises an interesting question, since many of us use >>> U-locks-and-cable approaches. Are there ways of locking up with a U-lock >>> (preferrably a smallish one) that defeat most methods of defeating the >>> things? >>> >>> Simple answer: No. >> >> An angle grinder will cut through any u-lock pretty quickly. You can see >> videos on youtube of how fast it is. I've seen a titanium lock -- Tigr IIRC >> -- that will delay an angle grinder longer, but still isn't uncuttable. It >> sounds like the recovered Sam had it's lock picked or else not latched >> completely. >> >> >> jim m >> wc ca >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
