As reported by ATXBS, Austin.Candence, and Fox 7, one of our local bike shops, Austin Bikes, has been hit hard with a wave of burglaries with a loss of over $25,000 in four break-ins in recent weeks. Needless to say, these kinds of losses are hardly the thing a small local bike shop can easily [...]
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UT bike thief caught on video stealing bike
Last Friday, Austin cyclist Robert Trent had his 2008 Specialized Tricross Sport, his primary form of transportation, stolen on the UT campus while he was at lunch. What makes this theft unlike the hundred of other bike thefts that happen every year around UT is that the thief was actually caught on UTPD video in [...]
City wants feedback on Bicycle Theft Resolution
If you work in the Austin cycling community, or, I would presume, an affiliated organization, the City of Austin would like to meet with you and get your feedback regarding an educational campaign they are starting. Here’s the full email, forwarded to us by the ever-stalwart Leslie Luciano of Bicycle Sport Shop (she now of [...]
