Stealing brake pads?
06-14-12 | 11:03 AM
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Stealing brake pads?
Anyone ever heard of this before? There are two reports in two different neighborhoods of people coming out to their locked bikes to find their brake pads had been stolen. Scarily, one guy didn't notice until he tried to brake!
Brake pads are cheap and as far as I know don't have any resale/scrap value, so I can only imagine this is a sabotage or "just for kicks" thing... Any of you seen this in your area? Anything that can be done about it, other than checking your brakes before hopping on your bike if it's been locked outside?
Brake pads are cheap and as far as I know don't have any resale/scrap value, so I can only imagine this is a sabotage or "just for kicks" thing... Any of you seen this in your area? Anything that can be done about it, other than checking your brakes before hopping on your bike if it's been locked outside?
06-14-12 | 11:28 AM
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That's an insane thing to steal. And not necessarily the easiest either. Definitely sounds like vandals, though if I was going to do that, I'd just walk around with a cable cutter and randomly cut cables. Much less likely to get caught.
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06-14-12 | 11:29 AM
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If they were just being jerks you'd think they'd just slash the tires or something. Either someone really needed brake pads or they were trying to hurt people. I can't think of a practical way to secure brake pads, though.
06-14-12 | 11:34 AM
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Kids.
Sounds like it's June and the kids are out of school to me.
Listen to me haha, I must be an old man, blaming everything on teenagers.
When I was a little thieving b@stard of a kid my buddies and I would steal valve covers from cars, but only the nice chrome ones haha.
Sounds like it's June and the kids are out of school to me.
Listen to me haha, I must be an old man, blaming everything on teenagers.
When I was a little thieving b@stard of a kid my buddies and I would steal valve covers from cars, but only the nice chrome ones haha.
06-14-12 | 11:43 AM
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06-14-12 | 12:23 PM
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Do any of these victims have an ex-wife (or soon-to-be ex) with an axe to grind?
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06-14-12 | 07:21 PM
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Sounds like they have a personal vendetta against cyclists and are trying to cause trouble by putting the cyclist in danger. Doesn't sound anything like they are stealing parts for the sake of the part.
Kind of like undoing someone's quick release skewers as a "joke." (Don't do this; this is a horrible, awful idea and is not at all funny to endanger someone's life like that).
Kind of like undoing someone's quick release skewers as a "joke." (Don't do this; this is a horrible, awful idea and is not at all funny to endanger someone's life like that).
06-14-12 | 08:35 PM
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Sounds like they have a personal vendetta against cyclists and are trying to cause trouble by putting the cyclist in danger. Doesn't sound anything like they are stealing parts for the sake of the part.
Kind of like undoing someone's quick release skewers as a "joke." (Don't do this; this is a horrible, awful idea and is not at all funny to endanger someone's life like that).
Kind of like undoing someone's quick release skewers as a "joke." (Don't do this; this is a horrible, awful idea and is not at all funny to endanger someone's life like that).
06-15-12 | 06:45 AM
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Or loosening the front wheel...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAs-N9R85L0 (i cant believe his mullet was still intact after the "epic wheelie")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAs-N9R85L0 (i cant believe his mullet was still intact after the "epic wheelie")
06-15-12 | 10:13 AM
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i steal chainlinks.
and then ppl wonder why their bikes dont shift as well as they used to.
and then ppl wonder why their bikes dont shift as well as they used to.
06-15-12 | 10:21 AM
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06-16-12 | 12:05 AM
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