My road bike was stolen from Centennial Campus in the Venture Center parking deck sometime between last Saturday night and Monday morning. It's a big 2005 Trek 1500 with a Selle Italia leather seat and Shimano PD-M324 pedals (flat on one side, clips on the other)

$250 reward

8/31/2010 11:54:49 PM

sucks, hope you find your bike

check craigslist if you arent already. stolen bikes almost always show up on there within a day or two

9/1/2010 12:17:24 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZctK51RwK8A

pls embed

9/1/2010 12:46:51 AM

Three things:

1:

Quote :

"sometime between last Saturday night and Monday morning."

Why would you leave a nice bike like that in a parking deck for that period of time??

2: Does the parking deck have any cameras? Might want to check with campus security.

3: Good luck. Nice bike, hope you get it back.

9/1/2010 7:41:48 AM

^this

9/1/2010 8:01:49 AM

Be prepared for the flood of thread crappers. It wasn't even worth posting here when a bicycle was stolen FROM MY LIVING ROOM!

9/1/2010 9:09:01 AM

^Fuck off.

You forgot to mention this thread. message_topic.aspx?topic=570713 If I recall, you got crapped on because of your incompetence.

9/1/2010 9:35:14 AM

You fuck off.

Here's the bastard that stole my bicycle, FYI.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1173286390&v=wall&ref=ts

9/1/2010 9:44:55 AM

On a serious note, I know the feeling. First day I moved into my new house my bike was stolen by a... you guessed it -> a black kid in the neighborhood. Good thing was that it was a Walmart bike.

[Edited on September 1, 2010 at 10:19 AM. Reason : ]

9/1/2010 10:15:52 AM

At least this waste of space was thrown off the football team months before he stole my bike, so he was already fucked. Not too much I could do to make it worse for him.

9/1/2010 10:24:10 AM

stolen

[Edited on September 1, 2010 at 10:34 AM. Reason : forwarding to RPD]

9/1/2010 10:34:24 AM

The apartment next to me has a bunch of bikes out front and several of them are spray painted black. Something tells me they didn't do that for aesthetics.

9/1/2010 10:40:38 AM

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"How are you ever going to pay a reward like that?"

Quote :

"It's simple. Whoever returns the bike is obviously the person who stole it. So they don't deserve any reward!"

9/1/2010 10:54:42 AM

^nice.

clearly it was Francis that stole the bike.

9/1/2010 12:38:45 PM

DAMMIT!

I came here to make the Pee-Wee's Big Adventure reference.

9/1/2010 4:13:45 PM

Yeah, pretty much what Jbrick said.

Did you have a cable lock on it, or a solid U-lock or uncuttable chain? I see tons of kids get their nice Trek
and Specialized bikes jacked around Duke because they lock up their $600-800 bike
with a $10 cable.

+1 on never leaving your bike locked up overnight somewhere- I've known people
to lose wheelsets that way.

You may want to consider a crappier beater bike in the future- something that looks ridiculous
and/or heavy.

That being said, if it comes to Durham somehow, we'll look out for it at the co-op.

9/1/2010 10:26:51 PM

I work in the building about 50 ft from the bike rack. There were coworkers working in the building through the weekend. Turns out a coworkers car was also broken into during the same period. Obviously it was a bad choice to leave it there now, though we hadn't had a single bike stolen from that rack in the 3 years I've been there. Thanks, everyone, for keeping an eye out for it.

9/1/2010 11:20:48 PM

I've never even owned a bike worth $250. why would anyone leave a bike that expensive on campus for any extended period of time? get you a damn huffy and ride that to campus.

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"Might want to check with campus security."

Campus Police. there is a difference.
/pet peeve

9/1/2010 11:32:22 PM

^Same difference. Both are useless.

9/2/2010 8:38:41 AM

^No, not at all. Good try though.

9/2/2010 8:48:36 AM

Do let campus police know. They recovered several hundred dollars worth of stuff that was stolen from my car, found alongside some other loosely-related stolen stuff in a pawn shop. If they hadn't known about my stuff they wouldn't have even given it a second thought. The pawn shop owner obviously did not run the serials because I reported them the day the stuff was discovered missing, and they were left intact.

9/2/2010 9:38:08 AM

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"Be prepared for the flood of thread crappers. It wasn't even worth posting here when a bicycle was stolen FROM MY LIVING ROOM!"

Wrong, people in the lounge are pretty sympathetic to such causes. The problem is YOU! No one likes you because you are a waste of matter. That and you really do put the simple in simpleton.

9/2/2010 9:57:46 AM

9/2/2010 10:06:25 AM

haha that kids name is tigga.

9/2/2010 10:31:48 AM

Strange turn of events: I reported it stolen to the campus police at the beginning of the week. On Monday morning a coworker came upon my bike sitting upside-down in the parking deck stairwell. She immediately called the campus police to come pick it up, fearing it was stolen from somewhere else on campus and hidden there. Fast forward to this morning when she saw an email I sent out about it being stolen. She let me know she had contacted the police, and I called them immediately. They were confused and said they had no record of anyone coming out to pick up anything. After looking through some more records they were like, "oh, ya, we've got it."


tl;dr:

Quote :

" BIKE IS FOUND "

9/2/2010 12:52:57 PM

^good for you. now go get a better lock

9/2/2010 1:15:30 PM

scratch that. still STOLEN

I certainly don't expect them to find a missing bike on a college campus after it's been stolen, but to be told exactly where to find it and not pick it up is beyond belief...

9/2/2010 1:45:52 PM

Last seen chained to this:

9/2/2010 1:53:54 PM

^^ Dude...That sucks so bad.
Do you have a backup bike? Insurance?

9/2/2010 2:00:36 PM

Wow, that sucks. Who wants to guess that another thief saw it in the stairwell and took it?

Might be a good idea to post pics of it where it was with contact information. It might be that someone was like "This doesn't belong here" and moved it, perhaps some campus maintenance.

9/2/2010 2:30:59 PM

why didnt your co-worker take it into the building

9/2/2010 2:35:40 PM

your coworker sucks

9/2/2010 2:55:19 PM

your coworker sucks

9/2/2010 4:13:09 PM

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"She let me know she had contacted the police, and I called them immediately. They were confused and said they had no record of anyone coming out to pick up anything. After looking through some more records they were like, "oh, ya, we've got it.""

So, what was their excuse for this?
Makes me wonder if they picked it up and one of them took it home.
I'm going to laugh if some guy named "CampusPD" posts it for sale on eBay next month.

[Edited on September 2, 2010 at 4:15 PM. Reason : l]

9/2/2010 4:14:10 PM