As I recall I/we have had 3 bikes stolen over the years.
As a kid I wanted to ride my bike along with my friends to the public pool. I wasn”t allowed to take my bike though because I didn”t have a lock. So I ran along side my bike riding friends to the pool. Later in the afternoon my Mother decides to ride my bike down to the pool to check on me. She leaned the bike against the fence while she walked the perimeter of the pool to find me. In the meantime someone stole it.
When my daughter was a kid her bike was stolen from our front yard and a crappy old bike left in it”s place. I rode my bike around the neighborhood till I found the thief. It was a kid who appeared to me to be somewhat mentally challenged. I escorted him back to the house to make the swap back to his bike.
A few years back on our way home from California we stayed over night in Las Vegas. Our 2 bikes were locked up (poorly) to a rack in the bed of the truck in the hotel parking lot. Overnight someone cut the lock off one of the bikes and stole it. I really new better and should have brought them in to the hotel room but was just too tired and lazy.
