Reg Lizard Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 Let me just rephrase that, not that I am saying half the okes on the hub deal with stolen goods. Thats not true. What I mean is that most of us love buying and then selling things again. Getting your BIG foot stuck in your mouth Big J-WP
tikki Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 Tikki - it is only funny if it does not happen to YOU! Dude you right sorry ,im just laughing about the hub and the things you read here, people say here, fight over , kinda like days of the hub , O and by the way got hijack in 1999 by 3, 6 foot plus dudes , smacked on the head with a hammer almost stabed and run overby a car while stoping it for help , 25 meters from the police station, But they never got the bike :clap: :clap:
tikki Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 Still rub the hole in my head every day, could not ride home at night for 6 months after that, you see the bike was not mine, my friends and did not have the heart ( or cash for a new one) to tell him its gone, so i fought back and won.
Just Keep Pedaling Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 Hmmnnn...interesting...and useful...I am wondering if I can rent you to come and ride with us?
MTB_Roadie Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 MTB_Roadie - obviously it is far less suspicious if you buy a mixed bike from a cyclist than from someon who is a non-cyclist. Addionally, if someone's pricing is off it means their margins are huge - intersting parallel is that per Carte Blache (about 10 years ago) most stolen cars sell for about R3000 by the original thief. doubt most cyclist will sell a mixed bike...they'd rather sell a complete build or sell in parts...cyclist dont rob other cyclist (or not that i know off). There have been loads of attacks at Red Hill, rhodes,etc , bike theft happened alot in that part of Cape Town...so where do you sell it? Your closest second hand dealer which is mainly shops in Main rd in the Woodstock area which happens to be not far from those areas...I am not saying the guy is a crook....but the people he deals with clearly can be, and he must up his knowledge a bit to noticed rebuilds of bikes,etc....in that way he can cover himself.
Topwine Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 Interesting article I just read: http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/from-vehicles-to-cables-microdot-technology-gains-asset-recovery-traction-2011-01-21 "The company has also donated 1 000 microdot bike kits to cycling retailer Cyclelab." This could help put an end to these tricks of the second hand dealers...
lowracer Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 something like 90% of stolen vehicles that are picked up at borderposts in South africa have the original keys in them = result of hi-jacking so yeah, you can buy vehicles with coded uncopyable keys, microdots, etc, .. no use if you are hijacked (so just make sure that you do make sure the next of kin knows about the dots, serials, etc, so if you do get jacked and cannot speak for yourself, at least the recovery chances and conviction rates can go up)
The_Break Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 (edited) No worries, I will give him a call tomorrow so he can come and defend himself here if he so wishes. Then you guys can ask him personally instead of shredding his name like this behind his back. It is actually disgracefull! Edited January 21, 2011 by The_Break
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