Bike stolen

jos28

Anyone hear of any bikes stolen from campus yesterday ?

Shiny

Ask security ? If it was left in a visible place they may have CCTV footage.

robby^5

Just a tip to everyone out there, safest place to park your bike (imo) is outside the postgrad res on the ballymun road entrance

jos28

Checked with security, no CCTV, they did not give a s**t. The Garda took it seriously though, bike was worth a few quid. Don't know how they got it. The lock would have needed an angle grinder to get through it.

c0rk3r

Where did you lock your bike ? What type of bike was it ?

jos28

Its my sons bike. Its a custom made road bike, silver frame and very lightweight. Theres no brand name or anything on it. Thats about as much as I know. He locked it somewhere behind the Engineering building.

c0rk3r

Thats where i usually lock my bike too(for the past 3years). Most of the road bikes are locked there. I wonder if its the spiffy silver fixie. If it is ill keep an eye out for it. I dont think your bike is truely safe anywhere on campus. Best option is to use two different locks.

jos28

Cheers, fair play to ya. Must ask him if he has a photo of it. Its very skinny looking, the frame looks like brushed alluminium, very very skinny wheels. only 1 brake lever and a gel saddle (not exactly a technical description .

c0rk3r

Yeah thats sounds like the bike alright. Yellow rims or tyres if i remember correctly. Id recognise it if i saw it again. One of the nicest bikes parked in DCU. Looked very clean, expensive and new. Noticed it was absent today

jos28

At least you appreciated it . The scum that robbed it will probably sell it for €50(for heroin) not realising what its worth. Hopefully its insured and he can build another one. Must ring Insurance tomorrow.

DecentBee

robby^5 wrote: »

Just a tip to everyone out there, safest place to park your bike (imo) is outside the postgrad res on the ballymun road entrance

Had my saddle nicked from there in first year. Cycled all the way home without it, standing up the whole way :mad:

Gavin

robby^5 wrote: »

Just a tip to everyone out there, safest place to park your bike (imo) is outside the postgrad res on the ballymun road entrance

This is not a good idea. I know of bikes stolen from there and they were decent bikes that looked like crap. In other words, the thieves knew what they were about.

Best place to lock up is the large area at the business school. The security camera across the way is nearly always trained on it. The kind of alleyway down by engineering on the way to the X building is not a good place, it's fairly dark and there's no cameras.

Two locks is a must.

robby^5

Verb wrote: »

This is not a good idea. I know of bikes stolen from there and they were decent bikes that looked like crap. In other words, the thieves knew what they were about.

Best place to lock up is the large area at the business school. The security camera across the way is nearly always trained on it. The kind of alleyway down by engineering on the way to the X building is not a good place, it's fairly dark and there's no cameras.

Two locks is a must.

Bikes tend to get damaged there a lot, I used to park mine there and twice during the year I came out to find my saddle all ripped up. A few people I know have had their tyres wrecked there too, that area tends to get fairly packed with bikes and people just dont give a **** when they're taking their own bike out banging into other peoples bikes etc.

I suppose there's no one place on campus safer than any others, I just prefer the postgrad during the day, havent had a single problem there for the past 3 years.

lego

Leaving a bike outside in Dublin is a very foolish thing to do. I've seen plenty of scangers walking through DCU campus (Specifically knacker drinking in the evenings around the back of The Helix & the restaurant side of the Grattan building) aswell as other poorly lit areas of the campus. I thought the University was private property and they could be removed as they have no reason to be here but maybe I'm wrong. DCU security don't seem to care about the problem.

I put my fold-up bike into my bag when I go into lectures. As far as I can see that's the best way to avoid the "knacker-nicking-your-bike" problem.