Posts Tagged ‘bike thief’

This week’s videos highlight the struggle between good and evil all cyclists struggle with every day on the mean streets of America. The first has been making the rounds this week after it was posted then removed then re-posted and removed again on YouTube. Better watch it quick before it gets removed from Vimeo. Bike [...]

Just in from Rob D’Amico, some final(?) news on the James Clayton saga: Clayton appeared in court today, here’s the deal they struck: Two state felony theft charges: 180 days Two burglarly second degree felonies: 4 years Two other charges not considered and packaged with the deal So total sentence, 4 years in Texas Department [...]

Our good friend Karl-Thomas Musselman over at political site Burnt Orange Report lives carfree and recently had his bike stolen. We’re hoping he can still get it back. Description follows. My blue/black Trek 3700 that I bought back in 2004 and have put a few thousand miles on probably, was stolen from 902 E 5th [...]

First it was the great James Clayton bicycle theft ring of ’08. Then it was Team Barloworld. Not even “The Look” could save Lance Armstrong from bike theft. Now Velonews is reporting that USA Time Trial champ and Garmin-Slipstream team member Dave Zabriskie Salt Lake City home was broken into while he was racing the Tour of California. The [...]

…but can we get a real one next time? When my neighborhood Randall’s grocery store was “refreshed” or whatever you wanna call it (the store at Ben White & Manchaca if you’re wondering), they were kind enough to install this row of “bicycle racks” on the side of the building. Bike rack goes in quotes [...]

The Austin American Statesman is reporting that there has been second arrest in the James Clatyon bike theft ring (hey, there are two people now so its a ring!) Austinite Layne Severson was arrested yesterday on felony money laundering charges by passing $8,500 through her accounts for Clayton. Interestingly enough, Jason at ATXBS mentioned the fact that when [...]

Ever since James Clayton was arrested last week on felony charges of high end bike theft and burglary in Austin and Arizona, the cycling community has been abuzz with discussion about the case, but on forums and blogs. Well, add one more source to learn more information about this serial liar and thief. Today, the [...]

So after all the hubbup over Austin’s most notorious bike thief, I see that Velonews is reporting Team Barloworld had 21 bikes stolen overnight at their training camp in Tuscany. A press release from the team says the bikes were taken from the training camp storage shed. Most of the team is S.O.L for training and racing [...]

As part of our Getting Started guide, I wrote an article on how to prevent the theft of your bike. While most of the article was about best practices in bike locking, I did mention the perfectly reasonable strategy of riding a cheap beat up bike and not worrying too much about locking. The downside [...]

Recently, I wrote an article about best practices for locking your bike so that it would still be there when you return. In this article, I took a moment to single out bike thieves as generally crappy people. I said that while bike thieves are bad people they don’t rate as Hitler or Carrot Top [...]