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12-09-20, 09:18 AM
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You're all wrong.
The thread has been closed and I don't have any data but I think that everybody missed the reason the majority of bikes are stolen: The thief simply wants a quick ride to wherever he happens to be going. That's why the cheesiest lock that you can put on your bike is still about 90% effective.
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Originally Posted by Retro Grouch
The thread has been closed and I don't have any data but I think that everybody missed the reason the majority of bikes are stolen: The thief simply wants a quick ride to wherever he happens to be going. That's why the cheesiest lock that you can put on your bike is still about 90% effective.
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So's your mom...
12-09-20, 09:29 AM
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Sure all those reasons. How bout The one when you're a teenager visiting your girlfriend on the other side of town and have to walk home before curfew. After a while you realize you're not gonna make it in time. You see a bike in a front yard and you ride it almost home then just dump the bike in someone else's yard.
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Originally Posted by Retro Grouch
The thread has been closed and I don't have any data but I think that everybody missed the reason the majority of bikes are stolen: The thief simply wants a quick ride to wherever he happens to be going. That's why the cheesiest lock that you can put on your bike is still about 90% effective.
12-09-20, 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by texaspandj
Sure all those reasons. How bout The one when you're a teenager visiting your girlfriend on the other side of town and have to walk home before curfew. After a while you realize you're not gonna make it in time. You see a bike in a front yard and you ride it almost home then just dump the bike in someone else's yard.
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Since we are effectively opening that thread back up thru this one...
This summer I sold a high quality Diamondback hardtail MTB to a guy who was very much not a cyclist. He took out his phone, videoed the bike, then sent the video and we waited a few minutes. Then he got a call and spoke Spanish for a few minutes. He asked me a couple questions, then hung up and shelled over a lot of $20 bills.
I was super curious and we spent the next 10min talking about how he buys bikes and brings them down to a friend in Mexico for him to ride and eventually sell. He makes the trip a couple times a year and brings 5-15 bikes at a time. His friend came up here for college and worked here for a handful of years before moving home and they used to work together. The guy brings his kids on the trip sometimes and they visit where the dad grew up while down in MX. Its cheaper to buy the bikes up here and pay for the border fees than it is to buy them down in MX, especially since many arent available there.
It was odd, but really cool to hear. <---so a typical CL transaction.
This summer I sold a high quality Diamondback hardtail MTB to a guy who was very much not a cyclist. He took out his phone, videoed the bike, then sent the video and we waited a few minutes. Then he got a call and spoke Spanish for a few minutes. He asked me a couple questions, then hung up and shelled over a lot of $20 bills.
I was super curious and we spent the next 10min talking about how he buys bikes and brings them down to a friend in Mexico for him to ride and eventually sell. He makes the trip a couple times a year and brings 5-15 bikes at a time. His friend came up here for college and worked here for a handful of years before moving home and they used to work together. The guy brings his kids on the trip sometimes and they visit where the dad grew up while down in MX. Its cheaper to buy the bikes up here and pay for the border fees than it is to buy them down in MX, especially since many arent available there.
It was odd, but really cool to hear. <---so a typical CL transaction.
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12-09-20, 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by mstateglfr
Since we are effectively opening that thread back up thru this one...
This summer I sold a high quality Diamondback hardtail MTB to a guy who was very much not a cyclist. He took out his phone, videoed the bike, then sent the video and we waited a few minutes. Then he got a call and spoke Spanish for a few minutes. He asked me a couple questions, then hung up and shelled over a lot of $20 bills.
I was super curious and we spent the next 10min talking about how he buys bikes and brings them down to a friend in Mexico for him to ride and eventually sell. He makes the trip a couple times a year and brings 5-15 bikes at a time. His friend came up here for college and worked here for a handful of years before moving home and they used to work together. The guy brings his kids on the trip sometimes and they visit where the dad grew up while down in MX. Its cheaper to buy the bikes up here and pay for the border fees than it is to buy them down in MX, especially since many arent available there.
It was odd, but really cool to hear. <---so a typical CL transaction.
This summer I sold a high quality Diamondback hardtail MTB to a guy who was very much not a cyclist. He took out his phone, videoed the bike, then sent the video and we waited a few minutes. Then he got a call and spoke Spanish for a few minutes. He asked me a couple questions, then hung up and shelled over a lot of $20 bills.
I was super curious and we spent the next 10min talking about how he buys bikes and brings them down to a friend in Mexico for him to ride and eventually sell. He makes the trip a couple times a year and brings 5-15 bikes at a time. His friend came up here for college and worked here for a handful of years before moving home and they used to work together. The guy brings his kids on the trip sometimes and they visit where the dad grew up while down in MX. Its cheaper to buy the bikes up here and pay for the border fees than it is to buy them down in MX, especially since many arent available there.
It was odd, but really cool to hear. <---so a typical CL transaction.
12-09-20, 11:03 AM
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We closed the last one because someone couldn't avoid stereotyping Mexicans and here we are talking about Mexicans again. That is not going to end well. Which is why we don't appreciate people reopening closed threads, however good the intentions might be.
