Thank god I'm an athiest!

correction - your god is watching you. I ditched mine at the 7-11 about an hour ago. I didn't have money for my Slurpee. He owes me anyway

god who?

the guy who got stuck paying for our Slurpees...sucker!

did you try maybe just buying some boltcutters, cutting it and returning them?

CL

Go check with the local cops... find out the law governing abandoned property in a public area. Chances are, if they knew about it, the city would end up cutting it loose anyway. Then theres a report that you've liberated it and if the true owner ever came to claim it the police could handle it.

You STILL haven't got it????

Mayo, try to get the 'liberation' on vid pleeese.

Might be a good excuse if 'Tha Man' shows his face. "Ya Orificer, just making a movie called The bicycle Thief."

Scotch makes you braver, but not as mechanically skilled.

Avi or mpeg will be fine.

Hmmm. I see you can buy battery powered circular saws now. A diamond grit blade is available for circular saws that will cut through steel tube, sheet, concrete, granite and marble.
I could 'liberate' quite a few bikes a day. If the lock is too tough, cut off the parking meter. Then you could have change for new parts.
Makes a bic pen seem kinda pathetic when you can use a man's tool.

What freaks me is you live in the same city as I do.

How do you think I pay for my house in the overpriced retirement villa?
Just kidding.
Me MOHS. You?

I still insist it's a crime and it is called stealing. What you are suggesting is we should steal any bike that is not moving for it to be free. Locating the owner would be easier than a trip to ur local cops. You may not believe in God but even by law it is wrong to steal.

Dude (or chick), read the whole thread. It's been discussed to death. Accept it or don't and move one.

Seconded. This dead horse has been flogged, beaten, berated, and now has finally sailed. And I was against the idea...before my god told me it was okay, of course.

o wit, it IS wrong? Or it isn't? Oops, I dropped my morals - NOBODY MOVE

Ha Ha!
when I think of what else God's seen in my life alone....
stealing bikes is the least of my worry.
hell, at least I'd be wearing pants.

DCC should do a "Pant-less Bike Liberation!"

jeff

This has been great reading so far guys, I too would be interested in seeing at least a digital pic of said bike in question....
a posted video clip of the liberation is of interest too...

I'm sure there are lots of us out there who commute in populated cities and have seen at least one or two bikes locked up somewhere, completely neglected and tickling our urge to come back with a set of bolt cutters to give it a new lease on life.....

what is it with three speed raleigh bikes? there are two that i have had my eye on for 9 months, one green one blue really skinny wire locks an all about 50m down the road from each other. where they are also happens to be on my weekly bar crawl route so i'm sure they're abandoned. however i'm still trying to get over the guilt and hot sweats i get when planning the liberation day.

Take it and this will be the begining to losing yours. Where are your morals - stealing should not be a consideration or even a subject to discuss. By the way my neighbour has never driven his car for last 3 months should I set it free too?

So, are you saying is that everything you buy/use/own/want has NO moral consequence whatsoever? And everything you do is without fault?
get a clue - read what has been said again - without the overbearing angel on your shoulder.

hmm... so should I return all the paper cups my workers
are throwing away outside? Are waste disposal workers just
robbing me blind? I knew the government was stealing from me.
So are we just borrowing America from the Native Americans?

the world isn't black & white. monochrome baby.

Don't forget to go slaughter the Chicago Bears they did
touch pigskin on sunday and they suck.

jeff

So is it ok if I've already had a bike stolen? If it's a karmic eye for eye thing, then I could probably liberate several abandoned bikes to make up for the theft of my beloved ride. What about an abandoned dog leashed up to a tree. Do you have to leave it there until it dies or the city takes it away? I hate to feed this stupid point, but truely abandoned stuff on the side of the road belongs to no one, even if it is locked up.

ok it's friday night, by the time monday (oct. 25th) rolls around I would at least like to see a posted pic of this bike Mayo.... weather it still be locked up or sitting in your workshop.

There is this crazy sweet cruiser bike that I have seen locked up and untouched at a pole in front of a row house in Toronto on my way to pick up my buddy from work. It is green with a tank, orange rims, single speed, some kinda "Tiki-God" ornament on the front fender and wide ass handle bars. It also has what looks to be a leather saddle of some sort.(I've never stopped to check it out, just driven by slowly). I have a serious lust for this bike! It has been sitting there for at least three years. Not only is the drive train rusted, but also the crank ring is rusted and so is the chain locking the bike to the pole. I've been wrestling with my morals over liberating this bike. It is going to ruin before my eyes.

I once found a bike in front of my doctor's office on my way in. It was a strange little bike that must of had a bananna seat on it at one time, but now has a brooks type saddle. It was all in peices(front tire off the rim, flat and off the bike, back tire off the rim, flat and off the bike) and lying on the sidewalk. The chain guard is rusty and the ape-hanger handle bars are also rusty. The fenders are also rusted a bit. It was lying abandoned on the sidewalk in front of the doctor's office. On the way in, I saw it and said to myself, "That thing is abandoned. If it is still there when I get out of the doctor's office, I'm gonna grab it and take it home for the kid." Sure enough, an hour later, I came out and it was still there. Now it resides in my garage, waiting for the kid to grow up enough to ride it.

After I took it, I felt some remorse about it. I tried to justify it to myself, but I still feel kinda guilty about it. I fixed it all up and it's ready to ride. I worried about Karma and all, but I guess I don't need to worry about it anymore, I'm getting laid off soon, that should take care of my bad Karma for a while.

I had a point for this post when I started, sorry about that. I guess the point would be take the bike if you know it's been abandoned. It would suck to have a bike taken just because you left it somewhere too long.










Sooooooo, should I grab that green bike, or what?

That green one is the Dyno Taboo Tiki. I don't know much more about it other than they were something of a limited edition or at least aren't made anymore.

http://www.johnsonshotrodshop.com/dyno/tiki.jpg


Yeah, thats the one, man. Such a shame, the one here in Toronto is going to the dogs if thats what it looked like before.

If I found her chained to a post I would let her free.

To which we're supposed to ask, "the bike or the chick?" And you would say, "oh, I suppose the bike's ok too."

I'm married, so I'd have to take the bike. The wife doesn't like competiton from the ladies. She does, however, tolerate the fact that my garage has turned into a bicycle harem over the past couple of years.

Keep the discussion about the topic.

Thanks.

Koffee Brown

Forum Mod

Seemed mostly on topic to me... At least as on topic as this board ever is...

There was a fixie with bullhorns that didn't move for two years on my commute. Now it's gone. I think the person that was riding it just didn't care about the rust and weather, and always parked the same way. I thought of liberating that bike, and now I think it's a good thing that I didn't. I wouldn't have worried about karma, because I've had every bike that I've ever owned has gotten stolen (up until this one, and that still might happen) since I learned to ride.