January 15, 20132 Comments on Thief feels guilty, returns stolen tandem bike
Harly and Courtny Forbes of Vancouver, BC, depended on their tandem bicycle for transportation. Somebody stole the bike from their front porch.
After three days of media attention focusing on the hardship caused by the theft, however, the thief returned the bike with a note of apology.
January 14, 20135 Comments on Bicycle cable lock integrated into seatpost
January 13, 20131 Comment on Recovered bicycle San Jose
From the Bay Area stolen bikes Google Groups:
Found in San Jose off of Richmond Avenue. Womens Black and red Stradalli, Napoli, carbon fiber road bike. Size 46. Sram carbon wheels and Sram red gruppo. If it’s yours, or you know who it might belong to go to San Jose Police Departments Main Lobby, 201 W. Mission St., and inquire.
Register your bikes, people, and report your stolen bikes!
January 11, 2013Leave a Comment
I’ve seen more media reports lately of bike thief arrests in San Francisco and in Santa Cruz. I don’t know if there’s more media attention or if police are actually cracking down on it more, but Aaron Bialick at Streetsblog SF sees a hopeful trend in recent bike thief arrests in San Francisco.
Bike theft has generally been a low risk crime for criminals, but if there’s an increased risk of time in the criminal justice system from stealing bikes, perhaps they’ll go back to stealing cars and catalytic converters.
January 7, 20132 Comments on Bikes and stuff and the Santa Cruz flea market
Here are photos of some of the bikes I ran across at the Santa Cruz flea market last weekend.
January 5, 20131 Comment on Petition to stop bike sales at Santa Cruz flea market
Steve Schlicht, the man behind this online database of stolen bikes in Santa Cruz, wants the Santa Cruz flea market to stop selling bikes, believing that moving the market from stolen bikes away from the flea market will cut down on the rampant bike theft problem we have around here.
Steve has an online petition here for the local Goodwill Industries, which runs the Skyview Flea Market on Soquel Drive.
Santa Cruz law enforcement periodically sweep the flea market and check bike serial numbers against their database of stolen bikes.
Photo is from the Santa Cruz Bike Church several years ago.