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sockmonster said:

I ride on campus all the time, but I never lock anything up. I mean, it
wasn't a big deal when I was just riding my Torker cx, but I've got my
coker out now. I know a few people who've had bikes stolen, but I'm not
that concerned about my unis. But maybe I should be.

So, who has had a unicycle stolen? And, I suppose it's slim, but did
anyone get it back?

Yep, I have had a uni stolen and know of several others who have also
had unis stolen. I know of only one case where a stolen uni was
recovered and that was because the thieves were pursued and they
ditched the uni during the pursuit.

I have suspicions that unicycles are stolen by non-riders who then
either throw the unicycle away or leave it unused somewhere. Lock up
your uni if leaving it in a public place unattended. It only takes one
idiot to think it would look cool in their house for it to go missing.

When I was a student I also had to suffer my unicycle being "kidnapped"
on a regular basis. A bunch of people in my hostel took to kidnapping
it and leaving it in unsual places (usually up a tree somewhere). I
was late for several classes because I was busy trying to find my
unicycle after it had been kidnapped.

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Don't leave anything unlocked on a college campus. Too many kids there
taking advantage of their new found freedom away from the parents to
steel things. There are professional thieves that target college
campuses too. Then there are also kids pulling pranks that involve
messing with your stuff.

Lock your stuff up. Lock up your dorm room door. Keep an eye on your
belongings while carrying them around.

I locked up my uni when I took it to campus. Never had any problems
with it being messed with.

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I leave my muni unlocked everywhere on campus. Ben PS leaves his 29er
unlocked everywhere, as well. Hell, I don't even bother bringing my
muni up to my room anymore (3rd floor). I just leave it leaned against
the wall next to the most used entrance to the dorm. I bring it up on
weekend nights, since I don't want drunk people riding it. But
honestly, I've been leaving it unlocked around campus for nearly a
semester now. I even forgot about it and accidentally left it unlocked
in the bike rack outside of the dining hall over thanksgiving break. I
have yet to see my unicycle even touched by a stranger.

Then again, this is a small school, and people are pretty good about
respecting eachothers' property. I've left my computer unattended in
lounges for up to a half-hour without any problems.

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when i bring my unis to school i lock them up because i don't even like
them getting scratched..

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I always bring my uni in with me or if they won't let me lock it up w/ a
small retractable cable lock. If someone really wanted to steel it, it
wouldn't be hard, but they couldn't just pick it up and walk away.
Soon I will get a better, and heavier🙁 cable lock.

gerblefranklin said:

I leave my muni unlocked everywhere on campus. Ben PS leaves his 29er
unlocked everywhere, as well. Hell, I don't even bother bringing my
muni up to my room anymore (3rd floor). I just leave it leaned against
the wall next to the most used entrance to the dorm. I bring it up on
weekend nights, since I don't want drunk people riding it. But
honestly, I've been leaving it unlocked around campus for nearly a
semester now. I even forgot about it and accidentally left it unlocked
in the bike rack outside of the dining hall over thanksgiving break. I
have yet to see my unicycle even touched by a stranger.

Then again, this is a small school, and people are pretty good about
respecting eachothers' property. I've left my computer unattended in
lounges for up to a half-hour without any problems.

If you keep that up somethings going to wind up missing.

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Okay, so I am not in college anymore... but I will tell you a story.

A number of years ago, I went back to school and was in fact a couple
of years older then than the usual student. I had an all-steel rigid
hardtail mountain bike with me. I had three roommates at the time, so
keeping the bike inside the rooms was not really an option. I had my
bike locked up outside, but at one point I came out to find that
someone had stolen the bar-ends. Now this was not during the current
decade, and there was certainly not a widespread mountain bike
community at the time, but someone had made it a point to come up to my
bike right outside of the dorm with an allen wrench and make off with
the bar-ends and I forget what else.

The fact is that if you leave anything sitting there unsecured someone
will walk off with it at some point. I was not at a huge public campus.
Bikes and other items are stolen at alarming rates on college campuses,
so I would just suggest that you do your best to discourage it. Like
someone said above, the stuff might likely be tossed out by the person
soon after, but you might be surprised at the degree to which such
things happen. Add into the mixture the kid away on his own for the
first time, alcohol induced weirdness, etc. and your uni will be
grabbed sooner or later.

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I just never let go of mine, it even sleeps with me, well that is when
my g/f is gone but even then its hard to choose 😄. Nah but you should
lock it up, the most common reason people steal unicycles is that they
usually find them very "unique" something fun to try, but they dont
know where to get one themselves...

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abbabibble said:

Cody bent his koxx.
he was working it pretty hard.

Dumpweed said:

your to hard on ur toys i think its time for u to take up a new hobby
like watching tv

http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55339

There's my story.

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Ohh man that sux, the pic there looks like a dedicated memory :'(

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abbabibble said:

Cody bent his koxx.
he was working it pretty hard.

Dumpweed said:

your to hard on ur toys i think its time for u to take up a new hobby
like watching tv

My friend Beth had her KOXX freestyle nicked from a bike rack in town,
even tho it was chained up. Was one of only two in the country at the
time but it was never found again.

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Aye ive had my Koxx Devil stolen outside Tescos where I live and yep I
got it back after a week it had been dumped round the back of a church
and my mates found it.
I now lock it up if I leave it and I suggest you do the same.

Joe

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Unicaw89 said:

I just never let go of mine, it even sleeps with me, well that is when
my g/f is gone but even then its hard to choose 😄. Nah but you should
lock it up, the most common reason people steal unicycles is that they
usually find them very "unique" something fun to try, but they dont
know where to get one themselves...

dude threeway w/ the uni
hmmmmm🙄

i always leave my uni locked and in a place where it isnt obvious ( i
spelt it right)

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I've had four unicycles stolen over the years:

1. 24" Miyata, 1983. It was inside my car. They took the car.
Unrecovered.
2. 2 MUnis, 2000. Stolen out of my car, parked in front of the house.
Recovered because the genius thief brought them both to a local bike
shop, asking to have the (splined) cranks removed from the DM. He had
to give the shop his name and address to get the service done. They had
previously gotten a call from me to be on the lookout for "unusual"
unicycles. That was easier to do then than it is now, but it worked. I
got to see the kid get arrested in front of the bike shop (possession
of stolen property).
3. One-of-a-kind 24" racing unicycle, 2000. Stolen from the grandstand
at Unicon X in Beijing, China. I actually met the thief, as she was
carrying my *other* unicycle down. I didn't realize she was a thief at
the time, I just thought she was helping bring everything down as we
were done racing for the day. But the other unicycle was already gone.
Unrecovered.

People steal stuff. How much of a problem this is depends very much on
where you are. I'm very impressed with Bevan's luck so far in San
Francisco! It's a sad fact, but if you leave stuff lying around long
enough, in this country, eventually it's going to disappear or be
destroyed. In Japan, I'd feel pretty safe leaving valuables lying
around. Not so in China!

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There is a saying that goes" Locking something up is only helping to
keep Honest People honest." and that is all it does. If they want to
steal it they are going to find a way to steal it. If it is locked up
they have to think first and then take the chance of getting caught.
I have been lucky so far, none stolen. Then again if I go anywhere I
locked my Uni´s up. Just for the love to them..😄

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johnfoss said:

People steal stuff. How much of a problem this is depends very much on
where you are. I'm very impressed with Bevan's luck so far in San
Francisco! It's a sad fact, but if you leave stuff lying around long
enough, in this country, eventually it's going to disappear or be
destroyed. In Japan, I'd feel pretty safe leaving valuables lying
around. Not so in China!

Bevan's actually in Swarthmore, PA at a small college. Betcha can't
guess which one! 😄

I've had a few things stolen over the years in different incidents,
usually in small, local settings ... a bicycle, cash, and most notable
a backpack with all of my exam materials (text books, notes, expensive
calculator...) three days before finals began. The thieves were all
caught, but my belongings were never recovered.

That last one was the final straw - I don't trust my possessions left
alone anywhere anymore.

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I never lock up my unicycles. I don't want the extra weight of carring a
lock- what a hassle. I've had two unicycles stolen but I am not sure
locking would have helped. I had a Wilder Lightrider 6160c which I
spent about NZ$4000 on. I imported it myself from Unicycle.com America
shortly before Unicycle.co.nz came online. I had it for about a year
and had upgraded the seat to a CF airseat with reeder handle. I left it
in one of the common rooms in my flat instead of putting it in my room
where I was sleeping, and I guess it was an opportunist thief that
robbed our flat, while my flatmates were partying upstairs (front door
unlocked). I foolishly didn't have house and contents insurance- I
probably couldn't afford it anyway. I live in a relatively small
community and I am quite well known so I expected it to turn up since I
have thousands of eyes looking out for it for me- I put an article in a
local paper about my loss and a lot of people read it. It never turned
up, but I took it as a lesson in being detached from material
possessions.

Another time, I got another article in the paper about unicycling, and
the journalist student Greg Wynn who wrote it was interested in trying
to learn to ride. I loaned him my 24" unicycle which had been rebuilt
with the hub & cranks from my brother's 20" unicycle, and it had a KH
seat. One day I went around and swapped the KH seat that was on it for
Ben's KH seat that only had two bolts left. Greg left town and moved
somewhere else- without leaving my unicycle or contacting me. I was
glad I swapped seats with Ben first. Greg's email (my only way of
contacting him) expired cos he stopped being a student, but about a
year later I got some stupid email from him inviting me to sign up to a
SMS community thing. I signed up but couldn't track him down through
the site. Greg- if you read this email me properly you idiot! My email
is still the same.

When I go shopping I usually take my unicycle inside and leave it near
the door- out of people's way but in clear view to deter thieves. Since
unicycling is becoming much more popular now, I might have to leave it
outside in the future cos shops won't tolerate big stacks of unicycles
cluttering up thier doorways.

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Today as my unicycle club rode in the Festival of the Whales Parade in
Dana Point I left an extra unicycle I had in the front driver's seat
and in the rush to get all 19 of my riders where they had to be, forgot
to lock the door and when I came back the uni was gone. Someone stole
it right out of my car and sitting next to my car was a skateboard. I
guess the thief decided to trade in their four wheels for my one.

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