Serial wheel-bender.

Flukey · 03-12-2004 12:43am #1

I am sure, when walking through Dublin city, you'll have often seen a bike chained to a railing or something. Quite often the front wheel and sometimes even the back wheel have been completely bent. How does this happen? Has anyone ever seen someone doing it? Is there a serial wheel-bender going around Dublin doing this to any bike that is locked? :eek:

woosaysdan · 03-12-2004 9:41am

people come out of the pub late and drunk, see a bike and go "ooh lets mess with the bike"

Chalk · 03-12-2004 9:43am

it hought it happened when the bike was there so long it finally starved to death and just started to melt

woosaysdan · 03-12-2004 9:44am

im melting away

seamus · 03-12-2004 9:47am

I've really only seen it on bikes that are locked to railing for ages - i.e. abandoned.

I also saw it in London last weekend, so it's not isolated to Dublin.

As woosaysdan says, it's people coming out of pubs drunk. People are idiots when they're drunk, as we know.

Years and years back, my brother cycled down to Club Sarah in Rathfarnham for his few drinks, and when he came out, his bike had been "assaulted". Who ever did it must have had a serious pain in their toe, because they managed to bend the top tube, which is no mean feat at all without some kind of heavy, blunt object.

Superman · 03-12-2004 9:51am

seamus wrote:

my brother cycled down to Club Sarah in Rathfarnham

Well i think that was the cause of all the problems, I try to stay well away from that hovel

Lump · 03-12-2004 9:52am

You try?

John

Victor · 03-12-2004 9:56am

woosaysdan wrote:

people come out of the pub late and drunk, see a bike and go "ooh lets mess with the bike"

Wheely bins, beer kegs, half opened roller shutters and the ubiqutous shopping trolley are other favourite targets.

seamus wrote:

which is no mean feat at all without some kind of heavy, blunt object.

Their heads?

RicardoSmith · 03-12-2004 10:43am

I saw a luas run over a bike that was chained to a lamppost. When the owner of another bike when to unlock theres the other bike slid to the ground, and the luas couldn't stop and ran over it. That was at Easons side exit. I'd love to see the reaction of the person who owned the damaged bike. It was in tatters.

Mainly though its scumbags who wreck bikes.

Lump · 03-12-2004 10:58am

What are they doing locking their bike next to a luas line? That's just stupid.

John

RicardoSmith · 03-12-2004 12:31pm

Lump wrote:

What are they doing locking their bike next to a luas line? That's just stupid.

John

Its a pavement, and its lampost. People have been doing it for years.

NotMe · 03-12-2004 2:08pm

I saw a 4x4 reversing over a bike that was chained to a lamppost in the city centre once. The driver didn't seem to care.

uberwolf · 03-12-2004 2:11pm

could also be scumbags preventing the owner from being able to cycle their bike away to return later and rob it. Same reason you sometimes see second locks on bikes...

seamus · 03-12-2004 2:14pm

uberwolf wrote:

could also be scumbags preventing the owner from being able to cycle their bike away to return later and rob it. Same reason you sometimes see second locks on bikes...

Happened to my bro in school. Whether it was someone trying to take the piss, or intending to rob it we don't know, but it was a newish, decent bike at the time. He left his lock on it, got a lift home, then came back with a hacksaw and chopped the second lock off.

stagolee · 03-12-2004 2:23pm

something that is completley crap and nasty but i have to admit still makes me laugh when i see it is when you see single wheel locked to railings :rolleyes: , ecspecially if its one of those clip off ones

(LOCK IT THROUGH THE FRAME!!!)

uberwolf · 03-12-2004 2:25pm

stagolee wrote:

(LOCK IT THROUGH THE FRAME!!!)

see you'd think that but my friend once locked her bike to the fence out side her house. She cam back to find the lock still locked to the fence. Figure that one out

and got help teh sucker who bought it

Serial wheel-bender.

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