Oh no! The Ice-bike was nearly stolen!
Preapocalyptic technological dystopia January 25th, 2009
Oh no! I awoke this morning to discover my ice bike’s lock clipped and the beloved bike itself a little ways down the road.
Turns out the thief was banking on the bike actually being ridable. Luckily for me its third wheel was missing a few washers and was not actually attached. The thief gave up and left my hard-fought ice-bike in the street.
The problem is that this bike is too big to fit through a door. I am not sure what to do now and am considering all kinds of elaborate alarm systems.
–Erik Ryberg
January 25th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Double dumb thief…apparently he/she thought the ice bike would melt into The Old Pueblo bicycle background.
January 25th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
wow, erik…that would have been pretty devastating after such an epic quest to obtain the ice-bike….
January 27th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Even dumber to leave the bike out in the open. I hope you find a new place to keep that thing so that your neighbors can again use the sidewalk.
January 27th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
An important design consideration to remember next time you have something like this built… a quick-release or fold-up feature on the sidecar.
January 27th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Myself I would just take comment #4 buy a decent bike and weld with better theft deterrent IE bring inside design.
or,
Buy 20 cinder blocks and 50 feet of chain and 10 disc master locks.
Scatter the cinder blocks around the bike, hang them on the handler bars, or stack or hang them in interesting ways. Next cut the chain into 10 sections and take 10 locks and lock all together in one big mess.
Laminate two signs and a card.
“I am watching you”
“Police bait bike in use”
“your name and number throw into seat tube.”
January 28th, 2009 at 1:07 am
anonymous that is kinda creepy.