My bike got stolen!
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Ok, I live in Amsterdam, but do they really need to steel my bike every 3 months!
Without a bike your nowhere in amsterdam. It is the ultimate way of transportation in Amsterdam.
Two bad things here:
1. Tomorrow someone else will pay 120 euro’s for it, thinking it is a legal 2nd hand bike.
2. I have to walk to work $!#-+&$! I’m halfway now and I think I’ll stop for a coffee.
If only I would have tagged my bike :( then there was at least a small chance of getting it back.
Tomorrow I’ll go to the shop to buy a legal 2nd hand bike for 120 euro.
Update 1: I got this bike from my parents, about a months ago, so please don’t tell them it got stolen!*
* Conventional blog wisdom states that 90% of all blogs are read only by the blogger and his/her parents :)
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten said,
Wrote on October 13, 2006 @ 10:06 am
You DIDN”T have a BikeTag??????
patrick said,
Wrote on October 13, 2006 @ 10:12 am
Noooo, how stupid can I be!
My next bike will contain 20 BikeTAG as of day 1!
tim said,
Wrote on October 13, 2006 @ 1:21 pm
hey patrick, seems that you have a few more readers besides your parents. Not sure how you ended up in my reader, I guess via Boris’ log. Yes, fun to read, however sometimes I wonder when we read the “I am now using the new pearlblackberry, its even working from the toilet” posts.
I hope you have more luck with your next bike.
patrick said,
Wrote on October 13, 2006 @ 2:57 pm
Tim,
I hope I can be the first one in the Netherlands who can actually say that :). I already contacted my mobile operator to see if they can arrange something….
oliepan said,
Wrote on October 21, 2006 @ 5:07 pm
I might have found the solution to your problem….
after all I benefit from you having a bike more than anyone else I can think of….
patrick said,
Wrote on October 21, 2006 @ 5:21 pm
@oliepan
You have!
I’m curious!
Jean-Michel Tremblay said,
Wrote on March 13, 2007 @ 8:35 pm
I live in Montreal and i had the same problem as you have.(1 year : 1 locked gary fisher bike, 1 locked on second stage balcony Trek bike, plus my new bike’s wheels got stolen)
maybe this will help you :
A tag on a bike is a really uneffective anti-thief solution. What you might do is making your bike uninteresting for thieves. Paint it, and then put some stikers of cheap bikes on it. Nobody is gonna try to steal a bike that’s worth maybe 20$.
I wanted to add XTR shifters and brake on my bike, but i didn’t want to give a gift to the next thief so what i tought of is to simply pass on some sanded papers so that you don’t know if it’s a 5$ piece or a 200$ one. And it gets much harder to sell for the thief.
After all there’s too many dummies as we were who don’t care for their bike. I thief is going to look for a neglecting owner.
hope you keep your bike for 15 years!!!