Originally Posted by
Dave Horne
Yep, I've had two bikes stolen, but I live in the Netherlands ... and that is not so uncommon. This is two bikes in 20 years.
One bike was stolen from my front porch and the other was stolen outside of a restaurant where I was working. I even saw the guy walking away with a bike. I saw this out of the corner of my eye and didn't realize what I had seen until later. Had both bikes been secured to an immovable object, they would not have been stolen. Always use two locks.
2 bikes in 20 years is actually quite good. We did some research and in Europe we have average 6 stolen bikes in one minute, that makes almost 9000bikes in 24h! In Estonia we have from last year bicycle registry with special frame marking system (almost invisible titanium tags with ID). Main problem for police is that they don't have good working bicycle registry..