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Bike stolen in Malaga, a word of advice

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  • 20-01-2008 11:03am
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    dohouch
    Registered Users Posts: 1,540 ✭✭✭


    Had bought a bike, for €50 the day after I arrived. I wasn,t in bad condidtion, a mountain bike from "Decatahalon". Bought it on the street from a small little shop selling caged birds among other things.
    Any way I left at the main railway station tied up with 2 locks a real cheapy on the front wheeel, and a €12 job for the frame and back wheeel . When I got back about 5 hours late, no sign.

    So I think the bike thieving specialists probably target the railway station as the bikes will be there for longer and with the same locks in the rest of town I mght have been OK. Nothing new to you city dewellers I imagine, but I,m a country boy and bikes only get stolen opertunistically down the country, nobody would go to the trouble of removing 2 locks. There was a bike with helmet locked beside mine when I parked there and it was still there when I got back but it had one of those heavy locks I would only use with a motor bike or scooter, you know with tube over the cable making it impossible for a bolt-cutter becaause of the diameter.

    SO USE good locks at Spanish City railway staions, or fear the worst.
    P.S. It only occured to me afterwards that the bike I bought may have been a stolen one.
    P.S. Unfortunately bike hire in Spain can be dearer than car hire. Best offer on a car was Citroen C2 €126 incl. for 12 days, and am now of to Cordoba where they want €15 a day Cordoba Sola Bici

    We're not suffering, only complaining 😞



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    #2
    ba
    Registered Users Posts: 1,085 ✭✭✭ba


    hmm, good to know.


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    #3
    gzoladz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,200 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    To be honest, Dublin is perhaps the city were the worst locks are used.
    Use in Amsterdam one of the locks that people use there and your bike wont last 1 hour.
    I bought a €65 (now it is nearly €90) Abus lock about 6 years ago and I use it since. It is deffinitely a good investment.


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    #4
    Hungrycol
    Registered Users Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭Hungrycol


    Bum deal dude. I sometime make my bike inoperable by taking the quick releases or wheel axel nuts off. They might still rob it but they'd only get 10 yards before they'd give up, unless they pick it up and run with it (unlikely). Having said this I do also use a €100 motorbike u-lock that I leave at my work bike rack.


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