Stolen Bike

… a fairy dies. But sometimes such crimes are entirely justified in the name of taking this sort of horror story off the streets: Actually, I may not think much of Gavin’s style, but it’s his bike. So if you’re in and around Bristol, browsing Ebay, or whatever, and you see this bike please give him...
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One of those bizarre coincidence things again this morning. I was looking for a Christmas prezzie for (well, I’m not going to tell you who, in case they’re reading this. Let’s just say that they DO ride a bike) over on threadless.com where I found this: I was thinking of ordering and mulling it...
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Andreas, over at the London Cyclist Blog wrote an interesting piece a couple of days ago about how to avoid getting your bike nicked - all sorts of cunning techniques to make the bike-theiving-scroat pass your ride over, including the brilliant ruse of locking your front wheel in one place and the rest of...
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Nope. I’m not suspicious at all. btw – do you want to buy a $50 bike?
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Remember the Sheldon Brown Locking Method? This one: Well, I thought this article on Commute By Bike showed a potential flaw in Sheldon’s system: Basically, what the thief’s done is cut every single one of the spokes so they can take the
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Have a look at this photo, and make up your own mind: This was all that was left of someone’s bike that’d been stored in the factory yard at one of my clients’ offices. They had a break in just before christmas, and as well as a bunch
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When I was in That London the other week, I took some photos of locked bikes around Angel tube station, Firstly, here’s a picture of one way to stop your bike being pinched. Have a bike that no-one would want to buy. Actually, it’s just the
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When I was in That London the other week, I took some photos of locked bikes around Angel tube station, for my other blog. Firstly, here’s a picture of one way to stop your bike being pinched. Have a bike that no-one would want to buy. Actually, it’s just the sort of bike I’d buy,...
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Here’s an interesting little film. A couple of guys got fed up with having their bikes and parts of their bikes stolen. So they set out to find  how easy it is to steal bikes . . . and what the public’s response would be when this was done
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This sad story was in the Newcastle Journal on Monday. Local paper boy, Matthew Reid was doing his morning round on his pride and joy customised Giant Glory. Like most paperboys, he used his bike to get from house to house, but then left it at the gar
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