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What do I do ?

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  • #32
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Ask the bicycle thiefs to open it for you.

    I don't know if this is true, but I heard, somewhere, that if you report it to the guards they have equipment to open the lock.

    Otherwise, have proof of ownership, buy a hack saw and write an afternoon off, goodluck.


  • #33
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    If it's a padlock you could try to shim it.

    If it's a U lock you'll probably just have to break it.

    If you have to cut the lock just go to your local Garda station before hand and let them know what the story is. They may be able to help but most likely it'll just save you hassle should they be called to a bike theft happening.

    I'd also recommend wearing a fluorescent jacket if cutting the lock, it'll help to stop passer-bys trying to intervene thinking you're a bike thief


  • #34
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Buy a new bike.


  • #35
    Spread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭Spread


    Plastic explosive? Am not encouraging it just saying .......


  • #36
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,584 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Spread wrote: »
    Plastic explosive? Am not encouraging it just saying .......
    And where is the OP supposed to find some in Dun

    oh wait

    nevermind


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  • #37
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,584 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    James__10 wrote: »
    A normal bike lock.
    Normal for where ?

    What most places would call normal locks wouldn't last anytime in Dublin.


    Who are you going to call ?
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3112670.stm


  • #38
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    James__10 wrote: »
    I locked my bike to a pole up town and I lost the key of the lock :mad:


    Can you remember where you lost the key?


  • #39
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Wait for someone to steal it then murder them and take the bike back.


  • #40
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,161 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Step 1: Put on a hoodie
    Step 2: Get a hacksaw
    Step 3: ???
    Step 4: Profit!!


  • #41
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭Archeron


    release some metal eating nanobots nearby, whats the worst that could happen?


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  • #42
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    boobar wrote: »
    Can you remember where you lost the key?

    It's always in the last place you look, so start there.


  • #43
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,161 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
    It's always in the last place you look, so start there.

    Wouldn't that place then become the first place you look?


  • #44
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    af_thefragile wrote: »
    Wouldn't that place then become the first place you look?

    No, it'd be the last place, why would you keep looking if you find it? :pac:


  • #45
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,915 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    A friend of a friend said that he seen a foreigner cycle to a bus stop, get on the bus and just leave the bike on the side of the road. When the driver asked him did he want to bring on the bike he said "No its fine, I'll just get another one off the social welfare". True story.


  • #46
    gigawatt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭gigawatt


    get a hacksaw and cut through it , 10 mins max, i lost the key off my car gearstick lock thingy this;http://www.driving-test-success.com/driving-articles/gear-lock2.jpg
    a few years ago and thats what the AA guy did. it was a big heavy bright yellow security lock thing so for a bike lock it'd prob take less time


  • #47
    mconigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭mconigol


    Open an outdoor gym OP


  • #48
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    ColHol wrote: »
    A friend of a friend said that he seen a foreigner cycle to a bus stop, get on the bus and just leave the bike on the side of the road. When the driver asked him did he want to bring on the bike he said "No its fine, I'll just get another one off the social welfare". True story.

    yeah he probably knicked it off someone that was inside the dole office standing in a queue waiting to sign


  • #49
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I got caught 'stealing' my own bike once in Holland. Some clown had locked his bike through my frame around a pole and left it there two days. I told them this and they asked me how they were to know it was my bike. After a bit of back and forth we agreed that I'd leave it 24 hours and if it was still there I could hack away the lock.


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