The Politics Of Bike Liberation (or Ten Hours In Jail, LOL).

dude keeps it in the house, and i don’t think there are any bike co-ops in dallas, but restealing/donating is a good idea.

also 666pack get at me when you’re back around

soundandmotion…a bike locked up for a whole season is abandoned or the owner is retarded and deserves to have their shit stolen.

true…

was it really all summer or just a couple weeks? although, anyone who leaves a bike locked up in a public place for more than a couple weeks does not deserve said bike.

Tarck bear frowns on bike theft… unless of course, someone were careless enough to leave a bicycle in the rain :bear:

[size=200]fuck off[/size]

That all you got? I don’t even have opposable thumbs, and I’m typing circles around you.

ban plz.

+1

I liberated a seat off a rusting out Next mtb earlier today.

fuck off. it’s more comfortable than the last one. it made my peepee numb.

Was it sexy style?

Now the question is, do you go back and finish what you started?

His daddy?

[quote=“doofo”]oh no

did your dad spank you
?[/quote]

nah. he almost smacked me for making him come get me at 4:30 am though haha

There’s a pretty bike that’s been abandoned by my train station. I remember seeing the dude bike over the bridge on day and was like “whoa, nice bike”. Later that week, I saw it locked up outside my train station. It’s been there, slowly degrading, ever since. I wish I knew how to get through a krypto chain. I’d be bike-rich if I stole all the abandoned bikes in a 3-block radius.

Shutup, Brianforums, also, speaking in the 3rd person = fail.

There’s an unlocked Raliegh One Way @ one of my client’s bike racks (outside), Its been there for weeks, always in different positions, so I know the 'tard’s been riding to and from this place. I’ve actually flipped the bike around or moved its spot on the rack a couple times, so the owner knows it’s been noticed as unlocked. If I didn’t respect the bicycle as a tool and an ideal I’d have a brand new, mint bike in my size.

Tarck bear is impotent… er… I mean, omnipotent, and can speak as he pleases. :colbert:

Oh my god!
Please stop trolling!

^ yeah this was a good read until this page.


i rescued this bike from a chainlink fence at a friends place. it was locked up with the cheapest possible combination lock/chain you can get so i easily unlocked it by feeling where the numbers needed to be. it has been sitting there for as long as ive been at school in that town. 3 years. i know for a fact it has not moved in over a year for sure. its a rent house and the tenants have surely rolled over a couple times since the first time i spotted it sitting there. i was going to fix it up myself and sell it at cost, but i had too much other stuff going on and i didnt want it to keep sitting in my yard so sold it to a dude for $15. its fixed now.

A bit risky cus you have to be really careful with the shit, but I worked in the office at a place that did zinc plating and they used a diluted hydrocloric acid bath before plating the parts, they got the HCL in a less diluted form( I think 37-40% regent?) there was some surplus they were going to dispose of and I ended up snagging a bottle, and this shit will eat through metal easily(I was doing etching on steel light switch and outlet plates) but I would imagine if you didn’t dilute it would eat through a krypto with little problem and would be less obtrusive then bolt cutters or a scissor jack.

Disclaimer: please for the love of tarck do not try this if you don’t know how to handle shit like that, if you are actually trying to steal a bike(in that case I hope you do get hurt) or in anyway that is going to harm a person, property or the enviroment, I only intend this to be for people engaged in the legitimate liberation of abandoned bikes.

My best find: Giant OCR3 50cm in mint condition, untouched in covered bike rack near UW Madison for 2 semesters and half the summer.

Most recent find: Old Centurion of low end quality under a pile of brush while helping LBS clean their adopt-a-trail.