Re:Flat Pack Chainless Bicycle from IKEA
by castratikron on Sunday January 15, 2017 @04:05PM
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Back in college I got rid of my old bike by just leaving it unlocked outside. It was gone in a few days.
Re:Flat Pack Chainless Bicycle from IKEA
by david-given on Sunday January 15, 2017 @06:03PM
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Tried that. Turns out, even bike thieves have standards.
Re:Flat Pack Chainless Bicycle from IKEA
by mattmillr on Sunday January 15, 2017 @07:08PM
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In Brooklyn, I got rid of half a bike (missing front fork and seat) by setting it outside for about 20 minutes.
I guess you could say I got rid of the first half by setting it outside overnight, poorly locked to a post, but it was unintentional.
Re:Flat Pack Chainless Bicycle from IKEA
by seltzered_ on Sunday January 15, 2017 @09:46PM
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Worth watching this timelapse of a bicycle left locked outside for a year in NYC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZcXF10Ir9Q
It holds alright until little things start to get missing, after which the rest of it quickly gets stolen.
Re:Flat Pack Chainless Bicycle from IKEA
by saddestcatever on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @10:20AM
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That's pretty funny. The entire bike was gone in a few days once the water bottle and seat went MIA.
He once built a bicycle that was so awful that it lasted him a complete undergraduate session at university, then a complete postgraduate session at a different university, and then I got it and it lasted me a complete (four-year) undergraduate session at a third university, and didn't get stolen once.
I only managed to get rid of it by leaving it, unlocked, in the hall of residence bike sheds, over the summer vacation. Even then it was possible the bin men just threw it away. But I like to think that it got thrown back into a river, and is waiting to rise again in future generations and make some other poor student's life a misery...