Cyclists ignorance about bike theft and our awful budgeting schemes are precipitating the crazy amounts of bike theft we bitch about all the time
It's time to take control. So here's a response that I spammed somebody's post about bike registration with. They were talking about registering your bike with police, not stupid cyclist registration stuff. Registering your frame and the serial number and whatever so if it gets stolen you can deal with it. And so you can prove it's yours. It's complicated. I'm not gonna be able to write about it perfectly. If you care, you're going to have to negotiate a shitload of words. It's gonna take longer to read this article than it would to register your fucking bicycle. But it is all interesting sociological stuff. So let's do this. So here's what I wrote on Facebook. Consider it an intro: People have a kind of limited idea of what bike theft is like too, so they don't realize there's all these bikes sitting around out there that have been stolen and then abandoned somewhere else by the thief. Not for a joyride but because the best use o...