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.
An alert SE Portlander snapped photos of suspected bike thieves in action and the PPB is hoping to track them down.
A team of Portlanders has spent the last year quietly building what might be the country’s most ambitious bike-specific software company.
Fencing operations for stolen bicycles are currently operating out of two downtown Portland buildings, Lake Oswego police say.
A local builder’s high-end carbon fiber road bike has been nabbed from his northeast Portland garage.
Richard Lorenz got his Moots MTB stolen yesterday and it’s already been spotted on the Esplanade. Let’s help him get it back!
When Jeffrey Cramer bought the bike for $10 last Friday night, he wasn’t planning to return it to anyone. He just needed a way to get home, because someone had stolen his own bike a week before.