I’m pretty sure the legal term for stripping a bike car or anything is stealing by finding .The best way is to hand it in to the filth and if not claimed its yours.
well i took front wheels off old road bike locked up and left for 3.5 weeks , in an out of the way spot not moved so fuk it took that shit ,needed, it observed it ,and bam got it , very quick right tools and 2 days later it was taken … as in some one saw their baby had being attacked and removed it b4 the nast people took more( nice bars). Felt conflicted for weeks and now lock my pony front and back always.
don’t do it!
there was a locked up bike on campus, in the same spot for around a year… i considered taking it many times.
earlier this year, i saw the same bike, but in a different spot… i was confused…
three and a half weeks is nothing. i’d give it two months at least before i even began to think about taking shit from it.
if it wasin a hot traffic spot ,same .but this was out of the way and spiders and birds had their way long b4 i did, but that is why this is a question of ethics?
Here is another one…
Three old bikes, all in not working order (flat tyres, no chain, buckled rims, non working brakes) laying by a Salvos bin. Do you take them? If you do take them, is it fair to leave some old clothes as a trade off.
yes. that sounds more like something they woud just bin anyway. you could make a monetary donation of the parts value if you felt compelled, $20 or so.
would you feel bad if you took the entire bike? if so don’t take anything. if not take it all. it appears you felt bad otherwise you wouldn’t have posted. probably just needed others to condone it.
still… i’d do it.
You’d be doing the salvos a favour - they don’t have the time or resources to fix up busted crap that they can’t sell as is. The fucked up bikes, dead fridges, stained mattresses etc that people dump - it actually costs the sallies to dispose of all that shit.
Thats what I thought. It would cost them money to either have them removed or get them to a point of working order. Needless to say, I have got the bikes and did hook them up with a whole bunch of my clothes in return. I will see if I can clean the bikes up and have them on the road again. They aren’t anything special. One is an apollo and the other is a no name.
thieving’s thieving, no matter which way you slice it. and never forget about the special place in hell for bike thieves…
But what is thieving? There is a green Pug mixte in melbourne that has been locked up in the one place for the better part of 3 years. It hasn’t moved once. When does that stop being someones property and become public? If a bike has been on the one place for 6 months or so, it’s a natural resource.
I hate being bikeless and have often wondered about locking a (fairly cheap) bike in every capital city that I visit on a regular basis since I hate taking bikes on planes. However I’ve always stopped short as I figured they’d get taken by council after a few months or trashed by drunken louts.
My best thought was to park them somewhere in sight of a public webcam so I could keep tabs on their health from 1000kms+ away.
Buy a new Brompton.
if i really felt it was abandoned, some kind of sticker or sign, that looks official, saying"if this bike is not moved by … then it will be destroyed" could be put on it, if it’s not moved after a week, take it with a free conscience.
like they do overseas
or
Four times a year, Cullen and her crew mark every bike on the lot with an orange tag. Owners are told to tear off the tag when they pick up their bike. After one month, any bike that still has an orange tag is taken away. Cullen says they usually clear out 500 to 600 in each sweep.