I’m going to quote Sex Pigeon in full. I’m sure he won’t mind.
Hi. I don’t normally make big purchases. I am adverse to them, even.
But this was a good bike at a nice price. I saved up for it. I wanted this good bike at this nice price.
I had it for two weeks. I rode it twice. Once, on the way home from the store, and then, to Sausalito and back. A beautiful day.
It was stolen from my backyard tonight. Not quite sure how. It was way past the other bikes, all the other bikes in the little bike tunnel in our backyard. It was picked out, selected, stolen, fresh and new. Nothing before has ever been stolen from our backyard.
If you see someone riding around on a bone white Jamis Aurora, punch them in the face. Or maybe ask them, first, where they acquired such a bike, and then if their answer seems in the least bit fishy, punch them in the face, and stomp them, and take their bike away and email me, stat, because I never bothered with nice bikes before, and now that I have, shit, I got robbed. I would like my bike back.
If anyone is going to the robber’s market at 15th and Mission tomorrow, please, look for this. It stands 59cm high, which is too high for lots of people, which will hopefully diminish its resale velocity, which will give you a wider time frame during which to punch a fucker in the face.
(Edits made. Please do not punch anyone in the face. Especially as this is not a particularly unique bike, and you would likely be punching an innocent.)
And, in all seriousness, please, I would like this back. Impossible, I know, but shit. But shit. Shit fuck and all that. I paid so much to ride a bike twice. Embarrassing.
Love,
so how do i call you from the market if i see anything, because i live a block away.
So sorry to hear about your loss. I have the same feeling. For 20 years I worked hard, took brown bag lunch to work, never bought a car, never went on vacation, never spent money on restaurants our drinks out, and always lived simply and humbly… to save money to buy a little house in the Mission. Finally, I saved up enough for a nice little place and worked on it for a year, fixed it up, and at last a nice exterior paint job. A few days later, I come out and someone has spray painted all over the side of my house. I felt down and dejected, and disillusioned. But I soldiered on and painted over it, disappointed that it didn’t look quite as nice and new anymore, but satisfied that it could be fixed. Then someone etched my windows, and painted the side of the house again, this time bigger and darker, and harder to paint over. This happened over and over again. I never before have bought anything of value. And when I do, some stupid f*ck comes in for kicks and ruins it. So demoralizing.
That’s called “street art” on this blog.
Not if you actually know something about street art.
that sucks, and people have no respect for other people’s property – if its not graf, its peeing on your house. but its not really the same thing. you’re weren’t robbed.
Maybe you should paint it something cool yourself?
no sign of it @ 1. BTW, the larger robber’s market is sunday morning. if you post a phone number I may check it.
One is “averse” to something, not “adverse.” Curious if it was locked.
I got my bike back after it was stolen. Having a tazer helps. Check up and down Market from Castro to UN Plaza. Look for some chump with your bike around the Market Safeway recycling center. Either you can buy it back for about $100 or you can zap the guy enough times so that he passes out and wets himself.
Either way, file a police report, so that you can prove it’s yours. Let’s hope you had enough common sense to save the serial number…
Technically speaking, you got burgled, not robbed.
Kinda sad for sure. But if you really luv your bike, the best thing to do is take a little action in ADVANCE of getting it stolen. Use one of the free BikeRegisty services off the net then TAG it up. Makes it lots easier for the bike to find you if stolen….
REALITY CHECK: There are dozens of people murdered every day and the SF bloggers don’t lose their collective shit about it. The plight of a missing gentrifaction-mobile is a fucking insult to the people left fatherless every day, who have to endure watching their loved ones cough up blood for weeks before finally turning blue and dying.
Who the fuck cares? Criminals kill other criminals. I couldn’t give two shits about some waste of toilet paper killing another waste of toilet paper. BTW, the dead guy wouldn’t give two shits about you. There’s your reality check.
That was a joke, see last week’s shitstorm.
i am tired of this meta shit
Nice bikes are stored inside if at all possible. Doesn’t matter where you live. Stealing bikes is an easy crime studied by rich kids and crackheads alike.
adverse burgled robbed averse….what the fuck ever- sorry about your bike- this town can be a pisser (or piss-er or urineful ?) I really hope you get the bike back.
You may want to try the Alemany Flea Market. Recently an acquaintance of mine had his bike stolen from his backyard in berkeley/oakland. He posted about it on CL and got a call saying someone had seen it at the Laney Flea Market. We FLEW down there and stole it back! huzzah! And besides Alemany Flea is FULL of stolen stuff… and handles of bacardi amongst antiques.
Do you have renters insurance? It may cover your bike. You have to a police report though.
Wow, MissionMission must be running out of stuff to report on. A stolen bike… in San Francisco?!?
What’s next? “OMG you guys theres TOTALLY a crack-head at the 16th st. bart station!”
Hey, maybe you can help out some other people and post the entire contents of the SF Craigslist Bikes Section?
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/bik/sfc?query=stolen
That said, sorry your bike is gone, and I hope you find it. Word to the wise, if you care about your bike, keep it inside. Never ever leave it anywhere overnight, and only lock it up outside where there is enough foot traffic to dissuade would-be lock-smashers. I had a really nice bike stolen and it was extremely well-secured. If it’s out of your sight and out of the general public’s sight it gives a thief all the time in the world to bust open your lock or cut your chain.
Also, if it was stolen from a big group of bikes inside your complex, then its also likely that it was someone who lives near you. I’ve had a few friends get stuff stolen from common and locked areas of their housing.