document updated 11 years ago, on Aug 8, 2013
What does the average bike thief look like? Are they a low-income individual looking to score money for drugs? Or are they a well-off group of people who can afford power tools, and has the ability to lift a bike into a flatbed truck and drive it away?
The reason this is important — if it's a low-income individual, who is looking for a bike they can pedal away, then disabling it in any way (such as carrying one of the bike wheels with you), then may be effective in encouraging the thief to move on to the next bike on the rack.
- Who Pinched My Ride?
A lengthy but informative look into different parts of the bike-thief underworld.