I love the American badassedness in this thread.

Steal the bike back! No one is going to steal a bike and ride it in the same neighbourhood.

Over here, most bikes (even in CPH they steal the entire bike racks with the bikes attached) get immediately shipped out of country to Eastern Europe or Northern Africa usually.

Same with most cars actually! When I lived in New England, I had a colleague with an Escalade (and with a "lo-jack") stolen in MTL. They ended up tracking it via CCTV (after a week or so) to a ship on its way across the Atlantic.



No one wants the hassle on unloading a stolen bikes or even dealing with cleaning parts and trying to sell them alone.

Organised crime doesn't have time for that.

Just claim the insurance and buy a new bike.

Dumb thread.