Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Bike hijack thwarted by my fixed gear

Funny story this afternoon -

I went to a library and just propped my bike up against a tree. It looks like a ratty old piece - no one ever bothers it. So I'm sitting in a reading room with a window facing the lawn area where my bike was, and I see three kids walk by the bike. They look like they're in middle school - priveleged suburban white kids all G'd out. It looked like one of the kids got dared to steal my bike. I get up and trot to the front door to holler at them, just in time to see the kid take a nasty spill...scraped up his knee pretty good. I guess it was his first fixed-gear experience. I thought it was pretty funny.

i would have paid to see that!

haha, did they just run off?

classic

i sometimes think about not locking my bike when i run in to grab a coffee or something just so i can one day see this happen, but the thought of someone actually knowing how to ride it and getting away with it always is enough to make me slap the lock on.. sounds funny as ****!

Hahahha, OWNED.

Hahahha, OWNED.

Don't you mean "PWNED?"

HAXX0R 7331

yea, we |337157 bastards like to see people spill on our bikes :-D thats why you always bring it to parties where theres drunk ppl to make get on a fixie !!!

dumb k1d5 7h1nk1n6 7h39 c4n m355 w17 u5 c001105. Actually, I belong in the mountain bike forum. Just the 13375p33k caught my attention. LOL!

Or if we want to get really geeky, we actually show what happens to those horrible bicycle theives:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/tim_leary/ownedfaceplant.jpg

aaarrghh....enough!!

I am using a front brake. but when I leave the bike unlocked in front of a store
I open the quickrelease of the brake. :rolleyes:

slacker - watch out, their parents might try to sue you.

this is one of the advantages my neighbor told me about riding a fixed gear, several months before I started riding one myself
I still lock it up though, too many people around here know how to ride fixed.

hmmm...

i'd never thought about the quickrelease thing...

if i used smileys i'd be using one of those patently unevil devil ones right now.

fsnl
sparky

open the quickrelease on your wheels. :)
That's if you don't have that little lip thing that makes it harder for the wheel to pop out.

enjoyed the original story-back in early 70's had an old ccm used to belong to an uncle and had flip flop hub, track bars and two brakes-left unlocked and was stolen one night outside a pizza place in Kitchener ont-have always pictured look on thiefs face when he hit the first corner and tried to coast

hah. as much as i would like to see someone try to ride away on my bike, i would cry like a little school girl if it was stolen. but i can imagine someone trying to ride away on a fixed gear bike that hasn't touched one before. when i let my friends ride mine, they swear it is the weirdest thing ever and i am insane.

i just call it 'burgulary preventive measures.'

But then they could always drive by in a pickup and hoist the bike in the back and take off ;)

Ah sweet justice though is'nt it. I love these stories :)

Here's a idea I picked up from Sheldon Brown: My brake levers & my brake both have a quick release. They are set up to run with the brake QR open. When I park the bike, I close the brake QR. Instant parking brake.
Hehe.

I was eating outside at a burrito joint with my bike leaning on the wall next to me. This guy runs by and grabs my bike... I got up and ran after him at a slow jog, knowing what would happen. As the guy gets to the first intersection, about 100 yards away, I see him reach for the brakes, and can just imagine the terror he felt. His butt must have gone from O to *. He apparently tried to coast, and it flipped him off the bike. Thankfully, the bike landed on him and not the street (wouldn't want to scratch my pretty chrome). I casually walked over and grabbed my baby, then rode back to finish my burrito.

I bet that punk will think twice about stealing a bike next time.

I was eating outside at a burrito joint with my bike leaning on the wall next to me. This guy runs by and grabs my bike... I got up and ran after him at a slow jog, knowing what would happen. As the guy gets to the first intersection, about 100 yards away, I see him reach for the brakes, and can just imagine the terror he felt. His butt must have gone from O to *. He apparently tried to coast, and it flipped him off the bike. Thankfully, the bike landed on him and not the street (wouldn't want to scratch my pretty chrome). I casually walked over and grabbed my baby, then rode back to finish my burrito.

I bet that punk will think twice about stealing a bike next time.

hahahahaha! Considerate of the guy to cushion the bike for you. You don't often meet a thief who takes such good care of your stuff - and punishes himself too!

I was eating outside at a burrito joint with my bike leaning on the wall next to me. This guy runs by and grabs my bike... I got up and ran after him at a slow jog, knowing what would happen. As the guy gets to the first intersection, about 100 yards away, I see him reach for the brakes, and can just imagine the terror he felt. His butt must have gone from O to *. He apparently tried to coast, and it flipped him off the bike. Thankfully, the bike landed on him and not the street (wouldn't want to scratch my pretty chrome). I casually walked over and grabbed my baby, then rode back to finish my burrito.

I bet that punk will think twice about stealing a bike next time.
LOL good one. Sheesh right next to you. You gotta admit the guy has balls, or needs crack.

So you did'nt finish it off with a cleat to the face, awwwe.

I was eating outside at a burrito joint with my bike leaning on the wall next to me. This guy runs by and grabs my bike... I got up and ran after him at a slow jog, knowing what would happen. As the guy gets to the first intersection, about 100 yards away, I see him reach for the brakes, and can just imagine the terror he felt. His butt must have gone from O to *. He apparently tried to coast, and it flipped him off the bike. Thankfully, the bike landed on him and not the street (wouldn't want to scratch my pretty chrome). I casually walked over and grabbed my baby, then rode back to finish my burrito.

I bet that punk will think twice about stealing a bike next time.

which burrito joint?

Taqueria San Jose in San Rafael, and it's mmm mmm good!!!