Someone Stole My Girlfriend's Bike Tires

[Codger_64]

Kryptonite’s Top 10 Worst Cities for Bike Theft

1. Philadelphia, PA
2. Chicago, IL
3. New York City, NY
4. San Francisco, CA
5. Tucson, AZ (tie)
Portland, OR (tie)
7. Denver, CO
8. New Haven, CT
9. Cambridge, MA
10. Austin, TX

This is what I found, dated 2008.

 

[Ethelred]

While thieves are scum, your girlfriend should probably lock her bike up properly if she wants it to be there when she needs it...why isn't she putting the lock through the wheels (or an extra cable lock for the front wheel in addition to a U-Lock for the back wheel/frame)?

 

[ramsay12344]

Yeah. The title basically says it all.

I live in the city and my girlfriend and I had our bikes locked to the same parking meter. My bike seems to be totally untouched yet when I went outside for a cigarette today I noticed that her bike was... missing the back tire. This seems a bit outrageous to me because my bikes got the quick release tires so all they would've needed to do would be to release the clamp and unscrew the tire off.

Her bike has the hex head nuts in place which means whoever stole the tire actually came prepared with a pair of pliers or a wrench. Man, if I see that silly bastard riding around with a white walled beach cruiser tire I'm going to take their bike first and then ask questions later. :/

Update: Someone stole her front tire last night. So now it's just a tireless bicycle. Really?

At least they left the rims...
Tires are cheap compared to rims and tires.

On a serious note it sucks to hear your GFs bikes "wheels" were stolen.