while i live in an area i can leave my doors open and unlocked, ive still had the odd thing go missing...rolls of copper wire (freakin junkies) car wheels (quick phone call to the father of the guy that asked me about them a few days earlier sorted that out) and there was my free agent eluder that vanished. neighbours kid had one as well, but mine had the 1 1/8 steerer tube...and 3 piece cranks, grind pegs, etc. i actually used those pegs! well, it disappeared, but ive always had a good idea of who took it...little brat down the road. no way to prove it but
then i found another one on the roadside cleanups...but sadly, just the lousy one like my neighbour had
and there was a bike i was given for xmas once. wasnt actually stolen, simply "confiscated" by the wayne kerr living at my place at the time...oh, because you keep riding on the road... yeah, a dead end road in the middle of nowhere, with maybe one car a day. where else do i ride, huh? well, after ten years or so i found it, sitting in the yard of someone who knew that ***** from way back...
i leave my keys in my real bike, just because if anyone can ride it away...they deserve the thing! you gotta know how to skip 2nd gear, and occasionally reef the shifter shaft out as its no longer locating, and tends to get pushed back into the engine... meaning youre stuck in 4th as you come up to the lights, or stuck in first as you take off...
id laugh if anyone "stole" that one
oh! reminding me! i had my postie stolen one day! rung the cops and all that, then as i finally started walking to work...found it 200 metres down the road, at the bottom of the hill...it obviously hadnt started, because...lol... id pulled the coil off the night before planning to swap it in the morning!
that was despair, heartbreak, and finally...mad hysterical laughter
personally i have the idea it was the same guy who took those car wheels off me... him and i have a history, i have his fathers number on speed dial