Do we just accept and carry on?

[_Daemon_]

No bike is worth it...but, then perhaps if we do fight back they won't think we are such easy targets anymore. 

[Minion]

 

But we need to meet and discuss the problem, so

Date: Wednesday, 12th May 7pm (late but I want to maximise the numbers).

Place: Primmi Design Quarter, upstairs. Design Quarter is in Nicol Grove, off William Nicol, close to Monte Casino.

Format: Semi- Formal, meeting with structure and an agenda (will be sent but please forward me any agenda items for consideration.

Who: Addressees (Clubs, CGC, CSA, MTBers) but please invite anyone else relevant to the cause

Topics: Safe route for all, community help and involvement, Prevention, Detection, Recovery, registers ?..(examples).[/quote']

Who's organising this? Who can I contact to get more information?

Thanks

 

[101%]

This is a difficult one!!!

I've been Hi Jacked twice now. The first time I managed to get away, second time I was tackled off my bike for a cell phone and cash. They even wanted to cut my finger off to get my wedding ring. Lucky for me I managed to pull lose and get it off myself.

I believe all the Bike jacking publicity we getting lately is only adding fuel to the fire . You can patrol a danger area and the thugs will only move else where. go on radio and give them all the idea that we got expensive bikes and that we are easy targets to make a quick buck!!

For me the Hi jacking was nothing!! compared to what I feel like now every time I go out and ride . I see someone walking down the road and can feel the hair on my neck stand up!! I'm constantly looking around  every dark bush or corner to try see if there's someone waiting for me .Eventually after all this worring you end up not enjoyng riding your bike! 

I don't believe we'll be able to make impact into these jackings . This is a country where millions are living off crime.I don't stand behind all this shouting on radios and newspapers that we are fed up .All we doing is giving more thugs ideas!

 

 

[scotty]

What's equally sad about this whole thing is the community must know something. If my neighbour comes home in a different car almost every day, or regulary carries appliances to and from his garage, be sure its not above board. 25 bikes were stolen last week at N/Farms, surely someone other than the criminals that took them knows something

[101%]

What's equally sad about this whole thing is the community must know something. If my neighbour comes home in a different car almost every day' date=' or regulary carries appliances to and from his garage, be sure its not above board. 25 bikes were stolen last week at N/Farms, surely someone other than the criminals that took them knows something[/quote']

 

Problem is all the squatters out in that area are all "illegals" into this country. I sit in an offfice with a guy that lives on a plot out N/farms Diepsloot area . They have set up there own patrol units at night to try stop the crime in this area . They have somthing like a 130 guys patroling nightly , and they still fighting a losing battle!

 

 

 

[scotty]

Still 101 we need to try something, if these guys can do something then surely SAP can do similiar.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/N1-rockthrower-nabbed-20100511

 

Lourens van Coppenhagen of the Silverton Community Patrol Association (CPA) said on Monday he had organised a group of community members over the weekend to do patrols at night in the area of the N1 bridges over the N4 highway and Pretoria Drive.

Nothing happened on Friday night. On Saturday night, community members from La Montagne and Murrayfield also helped.

Some of the men lay in the veld while others were in their cars near the bridges.

"Shortly after midnight one the men called on the radio and said there was someone on the bridge," said Van Coppenhagen.

"The guy held a rock over the railing to throw it down.

Denied allegations

"One of the CPA members ran up. When the man saw him, he let go of the rock and ran into the veld."

Sepato said this rock fell in front of a car driving underneath the bridge. The motorist drove over the rock and damaged his car's undercarriage.

Sepato said it was not clear at this stage whether the man was working alone.

He denied all allegations against him, said Sepato.

 

[covie]

Still 101 we need to try something' date=' if these guys can do something then surely SAP can do similiar.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/N1-rockthrower-nabbed-20100511

  

[/quote']

read about this on monday apparently a couple of people have actually been hit injured and killed due to this. Just goes to show you that a couple of unarmed civilians can do in one weekend, what the police havent managed to do in the last month.

 

Case in point if we dont start doing something then nobody will and you might as well hang up your bike and start walking.

 

Another idea might be to make a two way radio part of your standard riding kit. (you know like those camping radio's) and then to make sure their is a common frequency per area' so that people can at least stay in contact and warn each other if they get a chance too.

[nielvn]

Ja Ja Ja pass the buck, dodge the responsibility, why should they worry about the breeding ground of their future "TOP riders", let it become soembody elsesses problem.

[rawoke]

Well how about Mapogo(do they still exist ?) I remember my friend used them VERY successfully in the restaurant business.

[Guest Frail4Life]

Well how about Mapogo(do they still exist ?) I remember my friend used them VERY successfully in the restaurant business.

 

 

 

Please explain???

[scotty]

Subject was brought up last night on SC, looks like something will be done.

[GTfan]

I don't know if this is a stupid question but can electricity travel through aluminium?? and if so how well does it travel through the metal.. maybe if there was a device you could hook up to your bike that, if or when somebody's been bike-jacked, you could shock the person stealing the bike (via remote control), but it would have to be a big kick, big enough to drop the guy (not kill him, just stun him so that you've got enough time to ride off).. as for people with carbon bikes I don't know. GTfan2010-05-12 04:53:47

[MaxUmis]

The problem with electrified or exploding bikes is that they might just get enabled by accident.

 

The only device I see working is a hidden tracking device. Yes battery life is an issue and you'll need to find the bike withing an hour or so, BUT who is "the cavalry"? Who's going to fly out with a chopper and/or scramblers, armed to the teeth, to go and find your bicycle?

[Tachymeter]

Carbon is a better conductor of elec than alu if Im not mistaken, see the lightning warning on carbon fishing rods, dont handle fishing rod when lightning in the area.

[covie]

Why we have faith and confidence in the SAPS

 

 

Police station robbed

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Wed, 12 May 2010 17:46

The office of the Virginia SA Police Service detective unit was burgled and two computers with case information stolen on Wednesday.

"The branch commander of the unit, Lieutenant Colonel Dingindawo Motaung, was surprised to find the Civil Avenue building burgled at 6.45am on Wednesday as he was reporting for duty," Free State police said in a statement.

An office window had been broken and two flat screen Proline computers stolen.

"This is the most important office where official administration of cases is done with the two stolen computers. It seems that the burglar was only in that office because nothing was stolen in the other offices."

No arrests had been made yet.

[scotty]

The ongoing saga continues. This time some really good news. Two arrests were made last night in the bile theft from the bike shed case and police are working hard on leads on the bikes themselves as well as the perpetrators of the aremed robberies.

RSS are working together with the SAPS and between them I am confident the criminals will be brought to book soon, as were the two men arrested yesterday.

RSS have developed a security plan for this weekend and coming weekends, and while we cannot guarantee anyones saftey due to the size of the farm, I believe that they have done a really good job andd believe we can safely ride at the farm.

Look out for more good news soon.

Regards

Simon