Handlebar thief you suck!

My handlebar was just stolen off my bike, maybe 30 minutes ago, in front of Cermak on North ave. Just letting you guys know to beware if your in the area.

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Permalink Reply by Amber K on February 14, 2013 at 5:09pm

Lucky I live in the neighborhood, so it was a quick walk home.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Zumwalt on February 14, 2013 at 5:10pm

They do.

Get it fixed for CCM.

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Permalink Reply by Juan Primo on February 14, 2013 at 5:18pm

What-all did they steal? Just the bar, or bar and stem, or bar stem and brake levers?

Jeez, are we going to have to figure a way to lock our bars to our frames?

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Permalink Reply by Amber K on February 14, 2013 at 5:27pm

Just the bar with one brake lever and the front stem plate, whatever you call it. They snipped the brake line and took off. Probably a scrapper.

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Permalink Reply by shar on February 14, 2013 at 5:34pm

Oh man that sucks! Durham had a couple things stolen off his bike a month or so ago from there too.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Zumwalt on February 14, 2013 at 5:44pm

Here's what I'm doing lately, you know the old electrical tape thing. I mean who really cares what it looks like? Wrap as many parts that don't move in a layer of tape, thieves will have to remove that first to get at nut,bolts, hex heads...you can't stop 'em but you can slow them down.

Mike Zumwalt said:

They do.

Get it fixed for CCM.

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Permalink Reply by John Durham on February 14, 2013 at 5:54pm

That sucks Amber. Sorry to hear you got ripped off.

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Permalink Reply by grayn8 (5.3 - 36) on February 14, 2013 at 5:55pm

That's just incredibly surreal and completely suckytastic. Maybe the thief was desperate for a valentines day gift? Have a handlebar and some cupcake I found. Was it a vintage hard to find specific bar?

I just had to change my handlebar because of some old fuddy fuddy nerve stuff and was surprised at how easy it is to remove/replace them. My riding is now less painful. Maybe now you'll find a "more you" handlebar. Gift horse mouth rot and such...