SwissVan Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 Recent survey conducted by a newspaper here revealed that 25% of respondents (3075 people took part in the poll) have stolen a bike before, 11% more than once and 14% once.Obviously the above result is relevant to countries where bicycles are used for daily transport and the availability of bikes and opportunity to steal / borrow is much higher than in SA.<?: prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Willehond Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 In Holland around 750,000 bikes are stolen per year! That sounds crazy, but often it is 'borrowed' by some drunk student trying to get home and who forgot where he parked his bike. That's why you buy the cheapest bike you can get with the thickest chain when you live in Amsterdam. Very few people have their bikes stolen out of their homes and I have yet to find someokne who locks their bike inside their house. Never mind chaining it to an object... My kids ride to school on their bikes and visit their friends every day and leave the bikes lying around outside. Usually they lock them. Usually. They don't wear helmets and they don't call older people 'oom', but I still love them. My wife doesn't even own a car and goes to the shops on her bicycle with big saddlebags (the bike's, not her's!!!). If you know my wife and her aversion for bicycles you would know what a radical change that is for her...
Tumbleweed Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 i have taken a bike from a shop and not paid for it, but i did tell the owner a couple of weeks later that i did?
GFishy Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 In Holland around 750' date='000 bikes are stolen per year!? That sounds crazy, but often it is 'borrowed' by some drunk student trying to get home and who forgot where he parked his bike.? That's why you buy the cheapest bike you can get with the thickest chain when you live in Amsterdam. ? Very few people have their bikes stolen out of their homes and I have yet to find someokne who locks their bike inside their house.? Never mind chaining it to an object... ? My kids ride to school on their bikes and visit their friends every day and leave the bikes lying around outside.? Usually they lock them. Usually.? They don't wear helmets and they don't call older people 'oom', but I still love them. ? My wife doesn't even own a car and goes to the shops on her bicycle with big saddlebags (the bike's, not her's!!!).? If you know my wife and her aversion for bicycles you would know what a radical change that is for her...[/quote'] Watched some video in the local Dutch embassy yesterday... Just have to love the Dutch... Saw those black 'oma fietsen' - EVERYWHERE
SwissVan Posted June 18, 2009 Author Posted June 18, 2009 In Holland around 750' date='000 bikes are stolen per year! That sounds crazy, but often it is 'borrowed' by some drunk student trying to get home and who forgot where he parked his bike. That's why you buy the cheapest bike you can get with the thickest chain when you live in Amsterdam. Very few people have their bikes stolen out of their homes and I have yet to find someokne who locks their bike inside their house. Never mind chaining it to an object... My kids ride to school on their bikes and visit their friends every day and leave the bikes lying around outside. Usually they lock them. Usually. They don't wear helmets and they don't call older people 'oom', but I still love them. My wife doesn't even own a car and goes to the shops on her bicycle with big saddlebags (the bike's, not her's!!!). If you know my wife and her aversion for bicycles you would know what a radical change that is for her...[/quote'] Can you imagine how many would get accidently borrowed if SA became bicycleized as Europe? Dont you just love europe, we walk to the shop and carry our packets home, shop is 3 minutes away by foot and takes longer to get there by car, then you still have to find and pay for parking...The first apartment we lived in the lift from the shop came right up to our floor so we used to simply take the trolley straight into the kitchen.
Charvel Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 I can remember when I was in Belgium as an exchange student many years ago. There it was common for bikes to be "stolen". It was such a common practice that if your bike wasn't there the next morning, then you take someone else's bike etc. It was like being in a round robin with bikes and only now and again you will have your "own" bike to use. These Belgians are crazy!
Gasping Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 Colleague of mine had his and the wife?s MTBs stolen out of his garage last night.<?: prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> I wonder if the ?darlings? that did this will answer the poll?
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