Stolen bike - how to get one back?

rsta

Hey I was out and about this evening and went for a few pints with a friend who left their bike unlocked leaning up agains the wall outside the pub. Was keeping an eye on it until it got robbed ..

Thing is its not his bike... borrowed it for a few days off a friend.

Anyway we were thinking what would be the story with ringing up the gards or the carriage office?

Giving an oul story and saying any bikes handed in last night? uh yeah a black bike, and the gards may say oh yes we have a bike here, my friend will say ah yes thats my bike il be down to collect it.

Are we mad? Would that plan work? :rolleyes:

Ruu_Old

Haha I think they'll want a bit more of a description of the bike before handing anything over, the gardai aren't that thick.

rsta

Thought so! Worth a try though maybe..

I reckon he'l just have to go thru the buy and sell on monday and get a cheap one that way... hehe

InFront

Id say you should give it a shot, although Im not sure if the guards get too many people handing in bikes. They are not the kind of things that tend to be 'abandoned' or 'found burnt out'!

Hard luck though. Why do people steal bikes
Mine was taken from outside my house a few months ago. The guy literally had to hop the wall, walk up to the side of the house, lift the bike over the wall and cycle away. I hope it was worth the tenner, which, given the state of my bike, is about all it was worth. I reckon he took it for the laugh tbh!

Wertz

InFront wrote:

Hard luck though. Why do people steal bikes

Because they're unlocked.

Even a sh*tty bike is still a bike...in most cases it's to avoid having to walk someplace then they'll either dump it or sell it to someone for peanuts....the exception to this rule being a decent bike where they'll use boltcutters, angle grinders etc to cut through any lock you happen to use.
I've been the victim of both and I know a few who have been the perpetrators of both. I had a good mate's Dawes racer lifted on me years ago...cos me £300 to replace for him (in 91 that was a LOT of money).

Next time you're out and about, take a look at how many plain black mountain bikes there are about the place....it's a good bet that about 99% of these are stolen and a simple respray job...if you look close you'll likely see the decals through the paintjob.

#Smokey#

you will probably never see that bike again unless someone tries to fence it which is rare and even if they do try you would need connections if ya know wat i mean. anyway when bikes are nicked its usually by teenagers who then file off the serial and try to sell it to one of there mates or one of the acquantances.

Not like i have done that before

abetarrush

Cxnts nicked me front wheel before

#Smokey#

friend of mine looked out the window of school and saw a knacker riding off on hmy friends bike. the knacker even waved it was funny as ****.my friend even tried to run after him hahaha

rsta

hehe, yeah the bike is as good as gone. so we were trying to come up with a way of getting a replacement...

ah sure we'll see what happens a bike might just turn up out of nowere ...

ThrownAway

Just steal someone elses bike

sterculelum

This reminds me of a song by Syd Barrett (RIP) Pink Floyd... "Bike"... ah yeah.

"I've got a bike
You can ride it if you like
It's got a basket
A bell that rings
And things to make it look good
I'd give it to you if I could
But I borrowed it"

Or maybe not. Whatever, dudes.

#Smokey#

ur best bet would be buyandsell or connections if ya have them.

Collie D

I erm "recently acquired" a bike that I can sell you for cheap, I bet your friend wouldn't even notice any difference

sterculelum

^^

A joke, right?

#Smokey#

yea sure a joke :rolleyes: . remember wat i said bout filing the serial numbers man just a thought

ThrownAway

Collie D wrote:

I erm "recently acquired" a bike that I can sell you for cheap, I bet your friend wouldn't even notice any difference

Yeah but your one just happens to be pink and has a special bell

Collie D

ThrownAway wrote:

Yeah but your one just happens to be pink and has a special bell

Nope but if you want one I can ahem "acquire" one of those too

rsta

Collie D wrote:

I erm "recently acquired" a bike that I can sell you for cheap, I bet your friend wouldn't even notice any difference

hehe, is there tires on it? i'll give u a fiver

sterculelum

Bikes, eh? Remember them... once you learn you never forget, that's my motto.

#Smokey#

well if you really need a bike you can jus go up into a dark alley in town and shout out that you jus robbed the all the chemist's methadone. now it is slightly risky but maybe a few druggies could be persuaded to get a bike for you. and it'll be no risk to you depending on how fast you can cycle away from the druggie after he notices u got no methadone

sterculelum

Off topic, but every time I see your name ^^ I think "Smoooooooooooooke on the waaaaaaater - du du du du du doo duuu". I dunno why, I don't even like the song.

I just thought I'd tell you.

ThrownAway

People even steal your wheels off your bike these days I've seen loads of tied up bikes with no wheelscaround town.

I'm afraid of them after my accident on thursday which nearly killed me

Collie D

ThrownAway wrote:

People even steal your wheels off your bike these days I've seen loads of tied up bikes with no wheelscaround town.

I'm afraid of them after my accident on thursday which nearly killed me

Some ****ers will rob anything, although I think a lot of those is the owner detaching the wheel so some little scrote doesn't nick it.

Tell us about your near death experience

#Smokey#

sterculelum wrote:

Off topic, but every time I see your name ^^ I think "Smoooooooooooooke on the waaaaaaater - du du du du du doo duuu". I dunno why, I don't even like the song.

I just thought I'd tell you.

ahem, the singer has a southern accent tut tut tut its all in the details man

sterculelum

I hate cyclists. The whole arm-indicator thing just doesn't do it for me...

#Smokey#

thats an arm-indicator i though he was checking his pits for a smell :rolleyes:

sterculelum

Cyclists know they smell and they don't give a shít! It's who they are!

#Smokey#

cyclists, pervs on wheels they are all the same to me.

and now im off. that last 2 tabs of ritalin and the 1 tab of horse tranq really ****ed me up lol see y'all 2morra

sterculelum

Whoa, man, look at it. He's been on Boards for one year (roughly 365 days) and has 365 posts. That's like cosmic. Whoa.

Does that count as talking about drugs? I should hope so. Mahalo.

Collie D

#Smokey# wrote:

that last 2 tabs of ritalin and the 1 tab of horse tranq really ****ed me up lol see y'all 2morra

He had an excuse for talking ****e, what about the rest of us?

sterculelum

Dude, I am the transsexual here.

Tha Gopher

I dont mean to question the honesty of the average Irishman but who "finds" a bike in the wee hours and decides to wheel it to the next cop shop for collection? Especially, think of a situation in town after everyones shut, yiv a choice between a bike nobofy bothered ty0ing up thats sittin on a wall/in the grass waitin to be cycled home, or ya can bare payin 20 euro plus to get out to Blanch. In fairness, if I was sober and I found a perfectly good bike abadoned in a state where i could assume it was probably stolen from its rightful owner id give it back. But 10 pints later unfortunately the mindset adjusts to the belief that if the guy who claims to be the rightful owner finds out ive had it for 5 years he can go fcuk his mother if he thinks hes gettin it back.

rsta

Tha Gopher wrote:

I dont mean to question the honesty of the average Irishman but who "finds" a bike in the wee hours and decides to wheel it to the next cop shop for collection?

The bikes that end up with the cops are a lot of bikes that have been taken off their owners who are too drunk to cycle them.

Happened another friend of mine only a couple months ago. She was on her bike with no helmet at 2am trying to cycle. the copper came over to her told her she was in no fit state to cycle the bike and they took it off her. it took her ages to get it back off them as she had made up a false name and address for herself.. hehe. she got it back eventually.

Gone West

just rob someone elses bike, and the karma cycle continues!

Wez

I was walking home one night from Rathgar to Clonskeagh, and outside the dropping well, there was a bike just resting up against a pole.. It was a racing bike, looked pretty nice, I pulled it away from the lamp post and realised it definitely wasn't locked.. I just threw it back, and continued my long walk home..

Whatever retard left their bike there, opposite a pub, where drunks are gonna come out for the long walk home, deserves to have it robbed! There was a little alleyway they could have left it, where nobody would see it, and have a much better chance of keeping it, but they decided to leave it out in the open! This kinda stupidity deserves their bike to be robbed..