Originally Posted by
Troul
There's a lot of labor in stripping down that bicycle to net a few bucks at best. Just tossing that bicycle as it to a recycler wouldn't get you likely half as much. A person that is "in the know" of such activity wouldn't waste there time.
Better off waiting for that CF bicycle to claim & resell to an unsuspecting buyer...
There are professional bike thieves in big cities and college towns in the U.S. who target expensive bikes, but the street value of almost any working bike stolen by a casual (i.e., opportunistic) thief is about $15, or was for many decades. It might be up to $25 by now. Hundred-dollar department store bike, $8,000 CF bike---doesn't matter.
I was surprised to see sneering comments about the looks of ILTB's utility bike. Yes, perhaps he should do as those commenters do and drive everywhere, reserving bike use for
serious training rides. Those rides should be driven to, of course, since the roads nearer home tend to be annoyingly full of other drivers and thus unpalatable to a
serious cyclist.