Belgian former cyclist and Tour de France five-time winner Eddy Merckx attends the start of the 100th edition of the Liege-Bastogne-Liege one-day classic cycling race on April 27, 2014 in Liege. Photo credit ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/Getty Images
Rocker BMX bike seen at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Club on April 25, 2014 in Indio, California. Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Stagecoach.
The city of Palo Alto, California issued this press release yesterday afternoon. The attack occurred on the sidepath alongside East Bayshore Road on the Bay side of Highway 101 in Palo Alto, CA. View Larger Map
The SFPD bike theft unit has warned bike buyers on Craigslist that they’ve deployed “bait bikes” — bicycle equipped with GPS tracking devices — and that they will track down whoever is in possession of these bikes when they are stolen.
Don’t try this at home, kids. These are professionals.
I was playing around with Strava’s Global Heat Map, which plots the entire Strava dataset onto a map to show where people ride. I zoomed into my town and discovered it’s easy to see where cyclists congregate.