Chicago Stolen Bike Registry

Locked outside tech. Stolen with ulock

I locked up my bike around 10:30am, outside of my office. I left the office around 8pm that day. I found no sign of my bike whatsoever. No broken lock, nothing. I don't know how it was stolen or what happened to it.

I believe the lock was picked and then the bike was stolen. It was locked to a metal fence along the lakeshore path at Oak Street Beach.

Possible garage door was left open or thief lifted off track. Not clear at this point. Nothing else in garge was stolen - just the kickass bike I've had for 22 years. Loved that bike. Probably not worth a ton to the average person but I planned to keep it forever.

My bike was sitting on the top portion of a virticle storage rack. I personally installed a 6" long metal peice that was screwed to the cinderblock in my garage. I then looped my U-Lock through this peice to my bike frame. I then had a cable looped through the tires and through an older bike (Trek 4500, on the lower portion of the storage rack) and linked the cable back to the U-Lock. They unscrewed the metal peice and took everything.

I went away for the weekend and my bike was stolen over the weekend. I thus, don't know on what day it was stolen. I locked it to the chain link fence and the fence link was cut so the U-lock was still on the upper cross bar. The bike was in my back yard. There is very poor lighting in the back yard and the yard is open to the alley via the next door neighbors un-secure parking pad.

Bike was taken from a garage. I'm at a loss for how they got in, as both the garage door and the back gate were locked. The bike had a U-lock through its front wheel and frame which would have made rolling it down the street impossible. The thief would have had to walk it on the rear wheel only or throw it in the back of a vehicle. Last I saw it was 7pm on Monday. I don't drive/use my bike everyday so the next time I was in the garage was 6am on Wednesday and at that point I noticed it was gone.

On July 4th my daughter left her bike hidden behind a shed in our backyard as she played. With all that was going on no one remembered to bring the bike back in to the indoor porch where it is normally kept. The bike was found to be missing on 7/7/11 in the afternoon. We found out that the bike was visible from off Pulaski St. into the "hidden" area next to the shed.

Stupidly left the bike locked to a street sign over the night. Thought it was fine because the front wheel and frame where locked with a newer u-lock w/flat key. I came out the next morning, and it was gone, but the lock still there in place, unmolested.

I was in a residential area, and when I came outside to leave, my bike was gone along with the newer u-lock w/flat key. There was a small area on the fence that had been cut off, which I assume is how the bike was stolen. The neighbors were asked, and they did not see anything take place. The bike had only been there since 8:00 am, so the theft occurred during the early- to mid-morning.

Bike was inside of fully enclosed back porch area with locking doors. Stolen between 1-6 in the morning. Doors were open this morning. Black Trek 1000 with teal bar grips was also stolen.

Don't know how it was stolen. The combination may have only been dialed to 1 or 2 off of the opening combination, so someone may have played with the digits one at a time making small adjustments to open the lock. In a follow up email from the owner, he stated: "I found some additional information about the theft this afternoon, actually - upon taking a closer look, someone cut/sawed through the ~1/2" steel bar that was part of the railing leading up to the front door of the house I stay at. This is highly unusual as the area I'm in (DePaul campus) consists of mostly college students. For the past few days, a demolition crew has been knocking down a building very nearby, north of my house at the corner of Belden and Bissell. I have a suspicion that one of the construction workers may have used his tools very early in the morning to free the bike from the rail and take it, possibly storing it in his van/truck out of sight. I'm not sure if there's anything I can do about it...

I got home and stored my bike in the fully enclosed and secured (locked and deadbolted) back porch/stairwell/storage area in the rear of our home. My roommate's bike was also back there. When I got up 6 hours later both bikes were gone and the door was wide open. The police won't call this a burglary or a breaking and entering because the doorknob was not broken. However, the area was is fully enclosed so it might as well have been in our living room. Another roommate was woken up around 4AM to the sounds of commotion in the backyard but was not so concerned that she thought to investigate. The bikes were not visible through a window or any other way from the outside so the thieves who took these bikes had to have known they were there by watching us walk them to the back yard each day. This leads me to believe it was someone from our neighborhood. Which makes me feel pretty terrible. NOTE: THE IMAGE INCLUDED IS NOT OF THE EXACT BIKE BUT OF THE SAME MODEL. IT IS PHOTOSHOPPED TO REPRESENT THE COLORS OF MY BIKE.

I locked the bike on a rack outside of my office at 8:15 in the morning. When I came out at 6 PM the area my bike had been parked in was baracaded and the rack had a sign on it stating that bikes needed to be vacated immediately for construction. My bike and lock were nowhere in site. Initially I assumed that my bike had been impounded due to the bike rack being moved during construction. I tried to contact the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) unsuccessfully that evening so I sent an email to a bike program manager at CDOT. The next morning (July 6) when I arrived at work I saw the construction workers cutting the bike rack out with a chop saw and knew immediately that my bike had not been impounded and had actually been stolen sometime during my work day on July 5.

My bike had been locked to a bike rack in the sheltered bike parking area at the Howard & Paulina L-train stop. The bike rack is right behind a single person unit that an L-train worker always resides in. I asked a woman working in the unit if bikes are stolen right there where a worker is always present and she said yes. That they do the best they can to always chase away a few guys who hang around there looking suspicious. But that there's only so much they can do. That bikes are stolen from there regularly. Something I wasn't aware of until mine was missing.

Locked to a rack at a busy section of Damen just near St. Paul. I was visiting a friend's house for Fourth of July festivities. Didn't plan on staying long as it was getting late. After saying hi and bye after 45 minutes or so, I proceeded to go to the bike rack and find my front wheel along with the newer u-lock w/flat key left hanging. Yeah, I didn't lock it up well. My fault. But it's still not cool.

Bike was parked in large bike rack area. U-Lock was severed with a small piece left behind - there did not appear to be any cut or saw marks, rather a clean break.

The bike was locked to a tree and locked with 4 other bikes. The thief cut through all 3 of our cables. This was the only bike stolen from the group of 5. It was parked on the lake front path and there 100s of people around.

Newer U-Lock w/flat key was locked to the frame & front wheel onto a street sign. The front tire was released from the bike and left locked to the pole. This happened between 10am & 2pm on Saturday. Businesses were open and the sidewalk was active all day.

I hate bike thieves. This is my second stolen trek 7.2. If anyone sees one going for sale a little too cheap, let me know.