Gents I have a story! I picked up my Zasker 9er Expert on Saturday after waiting two weeks for it after having shopped around for a bike for almost nine months. What a great ride! (Even though I fell my ass off yesterday morning in the Stellenbosch mountains) Now seeing as I came back from Stb directly to work my bike was locked on the back of my bakkie on the bike rack and I park right outside my window, 10 meters from my office chair where I can see the bike when I turn every 5 minutes, so I find (found) it very safe as we have big gates and barbed wire and all around the office block. Just after lunch time in broad daylight I heard the noise of a bike being put down and THAT sound when you start pedalling (through a thick window). Out the corner of my eye I saw someone go around the corner and I quickly checked my car seeing an empty rack. I freakin chased outside and ran after the guy who managed to get through the half meter gap between the security boom and the wall. I was never gonna catch him but luckily a girl came past in a car so I just signalled to her to chase him and about 500m down the road she managed to cut him off, making him ditch the bike and then jumped into a support getaway car which was also following him, so they got away but my bike is safe and sound! These guys took a HUGE risk trying to steal it from where they did and they had to have patrolled and inspected the bike and setting for a while. He cut through my chain and took the time to take off the elastics and rope which secured the bike. I don't think they would have gone through this effort for a cheap bike, they must have known that the bike is worth a bit! I'm sure these okes operate a black market somehow. Just the cheek to do it in broad daylight makes me cross, but I'm over it now, learnt a lesson! And the bike was 3 days old, not yet insured!
