Has Your Bike Been Stolen?

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Anonymous

You might want to check out a guy at the flea market at 6th Ave. & 26th St. Not the guy selling in the main lot--he seems legit, selling older bikes he's fixed up. But a half a block east on 26th there is an alleyway that connects to another parking lot, and in that alleyway is a guy who has 2 or 3 bikes for sale every week. Hybrids, roadbikes, occasionally a mountain bike--always in pretty good shape. I would be very surprised if these bikes had not been recently stolen.

Be careful, it's a little seedy back there, lots of porn DVDs, power tools and bad electronics, but you'll see some bikes leaning against the wall about 50 feet in.

I repeat: NOT the guy selling bikes out of the main lot at 6th & 26th--but the guy half a block east.

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don montalvo (not verified)
"yeah, ""mike-the-bike"" is ok..."

...he's been selling fixed-up bikes for over 20 years. he's the go-to guy for commuter bikes. nothing beats a $50 clunker that you're not afraid to leave locked to the tree outside overnight. :)

don

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John Z (not verified)
Interesting

"""Be careful, it's a little seedy back there, lots of porn DVDs, power tools and bad electronics, but you'll see some bikes leaning against the wall about 50 feet in.""

Too bad they don't do this on Wednesday evenings -- it would be a great stop on the UAR."

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don montalvo (not verified)
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Etoain S. HrdLu (not verified)
Djonovic the smuggler

"Somehow, I am reminded of the tale of Djonovic, who used to pass each week between the Jugoslav border and the Italian border, always returning on a bicycle.

This was back under the Communist rule of Marshall Tito when there was a shortage of everything except police officials, and the officials at the border were suspicious.

Many times they not only searched Djonovic, but also looked under his saddle, or removed his tires and looked between the tires and the rims, or took off the saddle and shined flashlights down the top tube. But never could they find anything.

After many years of this, the chief border cop, who had gotten to know Djonovic quite well said, ""Alright, Djonovic, finally my curiosity has gotten the better of me. I swear on the heads of my children and the grave of my mother I will not arrest you no matter what your answer, but I know you are smuggling something and I beg of you: What are you smuggling?""

""You damned fool,"" said Djonovic, ""I am smuggling bicycles.""

And the guy in the alley is selling used bicycles.

Your Pal,
Etoain"

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texasflood (not verified)
The old wheelbarrow joke (nm)
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1 of 12 hand-picked alpha males (not verified)
Yes, but he did a good job of trying to breathe life into it...

...checking under the seat, the rims, the Tito reference, etc. A veritable history lesson. I would bet that no more than .000000006% of the people using the internet at this moment could identify Tito. (excluding Jacko's brother, of course)

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Etoain S. HrdLu (not verified)
History shmistory

"The point is, gentlemen, that the bicycle seller in the alley is no more (or less) selling stolen bicycles than any other used bicycle entrepreneur.

Instead, the point is that he is not stealing bicycles so much as space. In the parking lot exhibitors pay to exhibit. Alley exhibitors pay nothing, although they may get chased out.

""It was under your nose all along, that sticky green thing you thought you picked out of there.""
--Gorevic the grossly vulgar crime inspector.

Your Pal,
Etoain"

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1 of 12 hand-picked alpha males (not verified)
Except this guy virtually has a flashing neon sign...

"...on his back that says ""Fence""."

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don montalvo (not verified)
stop for which?

the porn dvd's or the bikes? ;)

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