If you see this bike, please contact me at 503-706-8804. Note that it has fenders and different tires than shown in this photo. UPDATE, 3:15pm: Found my bike. Stole it back. Here’s the story. My Cielo is gone. Someone grabbed it from outside my office building at the corner of SW 4th and Stark this … Read more
One PPB officer has made it his personal mission to battle bike theft.
Putting bike theft on their radar.(Photo: City of Portland) If you’ve been paying attention, you know that Portland has a serious theft problem when it comes to bicycles and bike parts. For all of you that feel hopeless about it, I wanted to chime in and say I think there are some signs that the … Read more
Stolen in Eugene on Friday and it might be in Portland now.(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland) Willie Hatfield, the winner of Portland’s Disaster Relief Trials event has just informed us that the bike he used — a custom Bike Friday — was stolen in Eugene this past Friday.
via reader email and Reddit:
“Second bike this year. Portland, I love you, but you’re bringing me down.”
From RM on 9/24/14: “About two weeks ago my husband’s bike was stolen off the front of a TriMet bus. It was not taken by another rider. It was taken by a random person on the street who ran up to the bus, grabbed his bike and rode off. The driver alerted our friend, who … Read more
[Note: In case you missed the announcement, we are now posting reader emails, comments, and other communiques we come across regarding bike theft. We are hearing so much about this crisis, we can’t follow-up with a story on everything, so we figure the next best thing is just to try and highlight as many of … Read more
Bryan Hance might know more about bike theft than anybody in the country.
“I’ve had it up to here with the stolen bike parts in Portland… This is just another notch in the belt of biker discrimination and injustice.”— Reader email, 9/24/14 As we reported back in July, bike theft in Portland is out of control. The problem shows no sign of going away and in fact, if … Read more
Sometimes it takes a 6-year-old to help us see things clearly.
To offer hope to those who have had bike stolen recently, we present this stolen bike story with a happy ending.