Posts Tagged ‘lock’
Friday, August 19th, 2011
And just look at what happens.
(They sell them, you know, headset locks. Myself, I simply put superglue into every hole where a tool would fit – that’s kind of like using a lock)
Anyway, you park your bike on Mayor Ed Lee’s Market Street in 2011 and this is what you’ll get:
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What hubris to not lock your headset.
(This is right next to where the SFPD had a enforcement action not too long ago. Some of the errant cyclists complained about getting cited or hassled about not having reflectors or lights installed, you know, during the daytime. I’m not sure how that works, but I’m thinking that the Vehicle Code requires not reflectors on bikes in the daytime. Oh well.)
Tags: 2011, bay area, bicycle, bicycles, bike, bikes, california, cyclist, dark, day, daytime, ed lee, edwin lee, headset, lights, lock, Mayor, night, reflectors, San Francisco, SFPD, superglue
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
From Vic Wong of Mission Mission comes this security tip from the Mission Bicycle Company.
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Looks good to me.
And it’s much better than this method, seen in the SoMA:
Tags: 2011, bay area, bike, bikes, california, company, district, front, lock, locking, locks, mission bicycle, mission bikes, mission district, mission mission, rear, rim, San Francisco, stolen, thief, through, triangle, u, u-lock, vic wong, Wheel
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
I like these repurposed parking meters – they ought to be religious icons (if they aren’t already, somewhere in the world.)
Anyway, these crossarmless Celtic Crosses are bike racks now taking the place of parking meters.
See?
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Hurray!
Tags: 2011, bay area, bicycle, bike, bike racks, california, celtic, Circle, circular, City Hall, civic center, cross, cyclists, lock, metal, meter, parking, rack, racks, round, San Francisco, sidewalk
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Monday, July 11th, 2011
Thusly:
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Don’t know what did this kind of damage.
Anyway, that’s the evidence, as found on Oak Street north of SoPA and South of NoPA, so it’s up to you to figure the M.O.
[Oh, an angle grinder - that also could explain the burning. See comments.]
[Oh, it could have been an oxy-acetylene torch as well. See comments.]
Or it could have been Arnold – he has the equipment, anyway.
Tags: 2011, angle grinder, bay area, bicycle, bicyclist, bike, california, cutter, cyclists, lock, oxy-acetylene, plasma, San Francisco, stoeln, theft, thermite, Torch, u-lock
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Friday, June 17th, 2011
Like this guy in the Western Addition – see how he does it?
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Is this necessary, like for real?
Tags: 2011, bay area, california, can, garbage, global warming, key, lock, padlocks, San Francisco, trash
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Friday, June 10th, 2011
A happy bicycle thief strolls past the bike racks on Grove right in front of San Francisco’s Main Public Library.
This is the locus of bike theft for Northern California.
Oh well.
Anyway, bikes function in this area as money, meeting all the standards – medium of exchange, store of value, you name it.
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(Unless it’s a Bianchi, then it’s worth more.)
Your bike, the one that somebody has stolen or will steal, is worth $20. 
Oh well.
“The suspect said that the bike lock was so cheap and the bike was so expensive that it was beyond his control to not steal it,” Northern police Capt. Ann Mannix said during a Wednesday police meeting on crime trends.
Libraries and bikes just don’t match in the Twitterloin.
On It Goes.
And oh yes, your mid-to-late-90′s aluminum Trek is no longer worth $1000. And not even the “Bike Shepherd” can find it for you:
- Theft description: Stolen between 8:40 – 10:15 PM April 21, 2011 Grove & Market bike racks in front of the SF Public Library Main Branch, during a performance at Kunst-Stoff Arts space across the street. Homeless man said he saw a guy with bolt cutters, but unsure of this report.
- Make: Trek
- Model: ZX 7000
- Frame size:
- Manufacture year: ’96 / ’97 / ’98?
- Color: Green & Purple
- Serial:
- Value: $1,000 + ?
- Description: Stolen between 8:40 – 10:15 PM Grove & Market bike racks in front of the SF Public Library Main Branch TREK ZX 7000 Forest green, royal purple frame Hybrid: mountain frame + road tires Black & silver Terry bike seat Upward curving silver handlebars Red & silver University of Colorado at Boulder registration tag # ending in 75 & Pinhead locks
- Status: stolen
- Finder’s fee: None
- Taken from: In front of the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch
- Last seen: 21-Apr-2011
Tags: 2011, bay area, bicycle, bike, california, crime, library, lock, main, money, public, San Francisco, SFPD, stolen, theft, twitterloin
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Monday, February 28th, 2011
Check it, this aging Schwinn Varsity ten-speed has a U-lock for the frame and front wheel, a cable lock for the rear wheel, but also, a bunch of yellow plastic cable ties on all the critical areas!
That means that members of the San Francisco Bike Thieves Guild will have to use two tools at least to get any booty off of this ride:
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Hurray!
Tags: 2011, bay area, bicycle, bike, california, cut, cyclists, kife, lock, plastic, protection, ratchet, San Francisco, ties
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Appears as if the owner of this electric blue Trek FX or something 7.3 hybrid bike abandoned it after a few parts went missing. And when I say a “few,” I mean just enough, maybe only one thing, to make this particular owner to give up and leave the rest to the midnight vultures of Market Street.
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Note that the pilot took the time to use a proper U lock along with a cable to protect the wheels.
But that’s not enough these days! It’s your headset and your seat and your seatpost – that’s what you need to protect on the mean Streets of San Francisco.
Here’s a shot from a day or two later. The fork and the brakes are now gone too:
The hand tools necessary to crack open the lock or cut the cables, well, they’re too bulky for the little monsters to carry around all the time. But wire cutters and hex tools, your Allen wrench assortment, that’s all you need to operate a bike thief bidness.
I suppose the end to this vignette is the SFPD or DPW coming along to crack the U lock to make room for other pigeons to park their bikes right in front of the Great Nordstrom / Bloomingdale’s Mall of Market Street. You know, to continue the cycle.
On it goes…
Norman Schwarzkopf, something tells me you want to go home
Champagne, bibles, custom clothes you own
Tags: 2011, 7.3, bay area, bicycle, bike, Blue, cable, california, crime, fifth, headset, hybrid, lock, mall, market, San Francisco, street, thieves, trek, Wheels
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Monday, February 14th, 2011
Still can’t figure out what occurred here last month.
You say the little monsters might have cut the spokes to steal the rest of the bike, but I can’t wrap my head around that one, topographically speaking.
Makes a lot more sense if we’re talking about a simple wheel locked by itself scenario.
Anyway, this thing appears to be sticking around so let it serve as warning.
Be careful Sir, this place is full of vultures, vultures everywhere
Tags: 2011, bay area, bike, bikes, california, cassette, crime, cutters, cyclists, fulton, hub, lock, mcallister, NOPA, rim, San Francisco, stolen, western addition, wire
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Monday, January 31st, 2011
This Batavus Regency is a new one on me.
Did I spot a Creatures of the Loin reference in there? Check out Lauren “:)” Smiley’s historic bit right here, for the 411 on San Francisco’s formerly angry moped gangs.
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A manifesto of sorts, from a moribund webpage:
“Media blackout begins. to clarify: the creatures of the loin are complete losers. a few of them, the more unsavory ones, are homeless. they are around 22 years old on average with a healthy number still being high school misfits who get made fun of by even the nerds. they are about 40% girls and have chosen the moped way due to a love of liberation, a desire for self sufficiency…”
Don’t stop believing, Batavus riders!
And get to know area gang members on peds of all stripes:
Tags: 2011, batavus, bay area, bike, california, creatures, dutch, gangs, lock, loin, moped, mydutchmoped, ped, regency, San Francisco, tenderloin
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