Texas - Austin bike thefts

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It seems like there is a new theft reported on Craigslist about every day. Some thefts are in broad daylight right in front of busy lunchtime cafes! Are things this bad in your Texas city/town too?
[not my bike]
http://austin.craigslist.org/bik/332339204.html
"My Trek 5200 road bike was stolen from my home on 04/23/07. I am offering a CASH reward for any information leading to the recovery and/or information to the recovery of this bike. This bike was stolen in the Northwest area of Austin. The person/s who stole this bike live in the Southeast area of Austin along East Riverside Drive or East Oltorf. I will pay CASH for it's recovery and information of the identity of the person/s who stole this bike. The bike is blue and silver in color. It has a Polar cyclometer on the front stem. If somebody has attempted to sell you this bike, please do let me know. Please call Javier at xxx-xxxx."
ravenmore
05-17-07, 08:31 AM
Hmmm - I wonder if he locked it up? I've heard bike theft has been esp. bad near the downtown area.
bikelock
05-17-07, 09:56 PM
A possibility for the future is the self-locking bike shown in this youtube move:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3dMUCiZDug
Not for sale, though.
I just found this on the Austin CL. Chalk one up for the bikers!
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are you missing a newish nice red and white k2 XC full squish mtbike? - $1
Reply to: sale-352602322@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-06-15, 6:02AM CDT
first, to preface this...
ive had close to $6k worth of bikes stolen from me in austin in the past ten years so i kind of unloaded $6k worth of stolen bike frustration on this kid tonight
i work downtown and this kid comes up trying to sell a *nice* newish k2 full suspension with a triple tree fork for 40 bucks(looks kinda like a razorback XC). knowing that noone would sell their own spendy full squish bike for only $40 i kind of jokingly asked where he stole it from. he said he popped the lock on it in south austin so i cursed at him and told him that bike thieves should be shot. he replied with 'fug it, stealing bikes is good money!' so i waved a cop over and had them arrest him.
they have the kid and the bike in custody so
if you had a red and white K2 full suspension XC mtbike stolen from south austin recently then PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go file a police report and get your bike back just to make up for all the bikes i was never able to recover for myself
dstrong
06-18-07, 08:46 PM
Nice job, McDave. The only reason I'm a roadie these days is that I had my Schwinn Moab 1 stolen out of my garage while we were in Dallas one weekend. It was an eBay bike but a complete deal and a fantastic bike. It's the only thing they took and I still look closely at every black MTB I see on the Hike & Bike when I jog. And we're nowhere close to downtown...we're in Westlake! Probably some rich kid gettin' his kicks. Well...you can be sure my roadie is locked up in the garage.
danielmramos
09-06-07, 09:30 AM
That is why I am buying a folder. I am tired of having my bikes stolen, so I am taking it with me from now on.
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