My Bike Got Stolen

[wushijiao]

Same thing happened to me as well:

http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/3111-bike-theft&highlight=bike

[imron]

Unintentionally stole 1 Returned to owner after realizing theft 1

Did you borrow it to escape killers, or was it to farewell your love at the train station

[Lu]

Now that you've asked, I'm more than happy to tell my How I Stole A Bike story. :-)

A friend went back home, and left me her bike, that is, she gave me the keys and told me it was in front of dorm no. 7. Two keys, for two locks. So I went to dorm no. 7 and tried the keys on every bike there. One of the keys opened one lock on a bike, but not the other one; I couldn't open any lock of any other of the bikes.

So I concluded that that one bike was mine, and carried it to a repair shop, where they sawed through the lock for me. This involved carrying the bike all over campus -- twice. One passer-by even offered to help me carry it.

I drove around on the bike for a few days, and told my friends this story. Consensus among them grew that this was in fact not my bike: Chinese keys fit on more than one lock.

So I went back to dorm no. 7, and told the shifu downstairs the bike tale, and was it perhaps someone else's, and here's my phone number. She said indeed it was someone else's, a Korean girl had been crying her heart out after finding that her brand-new bike had been stolen.

End of story: the Korean girl called me, I returned the bike to her, and paid her back the money for a new lock.

[gougou]

Bought bikes: 1, forgotten bikes when moving house: 1, bikes missed afterwards: 0

To get from one place to another, Beijing's public transport is not too bad. For recreation, the last thing I would want to do is physical activity in Beijing's air. I do walk a lot, though.

[imron]

I don't think really that the biking I do constitutes as physical activity I've mostly adopted Chinese riding speeds, and currently really only use it to cycle to/from the market/shops (previously it used to be to/from campus). It turns a 15 minute walk into a 5 minute cycle (ok, ok so if you do the math you'll realise I haven't adopted Chinese riding speeds completely )

[feebie]

sorry to hear about your bike getting stolen

it seems even worse to have your neighbors just sit back and watch too

[zozzen]

I never let my theft take my items so easily, at least they have to know lockpicking. Take it as a small tuition fee for learning not to expect neighbours to take care of your belongings.

[simonlaing]

Hi all,

I am suprised at your luck,

I have have my my bikes stolen 5 times . Twice in Suzhou and 3 times in Nanjing. The most common times i have had it stolen was around the spring festival. This last one i had for two years or so and is espicially sad in it's being gone.

This last time it was literaly 2 days before the holiday and there was unseasonable snow. Because of the holiday the bicycle parking lot attendent guys left at mid day. Also people say carrying bicycles in snowy weather is common to avoid slush and so that is probably how they were able to just life my foldable bike up and put in the truck (I imagine it was a truck).

It usually happens around Spring festival as migrant workers need cash for the trip home, also many know they won't be coming back so will likely not get caught for this Bike theiving.

Despondent, my mum consoled me by saying the person was likely poor and needed the bike desperately.

Still going to buy another bike, biking is much better than driving.

have fun,

SimoN:)

[extrapages]

so i sold my returned bike to a friend.

and pez is recovering quickly from getting his puppy balls chopped off. hah!

[muyongshi]

Just to brag for a second...I have bought two bikes and never had one stolen!

One I sold to a friend (was a 600 kuai Giant) and the other one was one that I and my bike shop friend custom built for 1800 kuai...

[native chinese]

most people in big cities of china have at least one bike stolen on average. it's so typical in china that people have no choice but to buy a rather cheap bike which is probably a stolen one.

[muyongshi]

most people in big cities of china have at least one bike stolen on average.

I heard somewhere that is was 3....