I noticed while locking the door ironically. I thought my partner had put it outside as it normally lives on the back Garden which is sealed and it gets locked to a post.
Never thought it would stolen from inside, suspect it was a neighbour as there is no chance of being overlooked or I could have been followed home.
Stole my backpack and portable phone charger also
And my GoPro, Damn it!
Gutted for you and really scary that someone would have the gall to do that when you where there! Really does sound targetted! Any of your neighbours got CCTV towards the back garden or anything like that? Defo worth reporting to Police too as someone targeting bikes in the area needs to be caught & local awareness raised!
So... Some guy drafted me for part of the ride in this morning. They of course didn't say a word of thanks.
Kind of amusing though - they show up as having ridden with me and you can see all the PRs over the section where they drafted.
https://www.strava.com/activities/269488285
Bike frwend.
Strava stalk him as he's very close to you - might spark up a friendship/local riding buddy!
Haha - nice. Annoys me a bit when people do that, mainly because I don't want someone of unknown competence inches from my back wheel and also because it's a bit antisocial to not say hello...
Agreed, quite annoying he didn't say hey or 'thanks for the tow'! But then again I don't always say 'hello' when I overtake someone.
Majority of riders on my morning commute I see most mornings and like to say "morning!" to when I overtake, 60% probably shout 'morning' back. Majority of others going the other way get a nod as no point shouting over passing traffic!
Occasionally say 'evening' on the commutes home but that really depends on how I'm feeling/what the weathers doing/how they're riding. Riders who don't pavement hop/drain dodge/red light run I will always try to say hello to. The ones not wearing helmets/no lights in the dark/unsafe riding I tend to ignore and just drop them asap (see below).
I don't draft anyone. I drop every last one of them.
Then again I've done *no* (ok, only 1) group riding, coming from solo riding/commuting I found it very hard to ride on a wheel, mostly through nerves and lack of 'speed judgement' I guess?
What I'm trying to say is - anyone who can draft/ride on a wheel well will in theory be experienced enough to do it safely. It's a skill you only really get from riding in a group/chain-gang.
There's only so fast you can go with all the red lights and traffics. If I'd had to stop less I might have been able to drop him I guess
I think that's the thing, Mondays commute home I overtook 2, one was a drain dodger and filtered through traffic on the left (dangerous!). The second was a pavement hopper (Annoying & dangerous!).
I stopped at a busy roundabout in traffic, they both 'got past' (undertook -pavement/cutting up left signalling cars). I dropped both again, stopped at a red light and they both jumped it/traffic by undertaking a second time. I had to wait in traffic to filter through the lights so gave chase after a turn-off and nearly caught one up again. Turned off/back into filtering in traffic and he pavement rode away from me... Fustrating!
I'd like to think I have more respect on the road as I filter/overtake on the right, stop at lights and take primary. In reality drivers *have* to give me room, the others I hope they just get annoyed at! They're the ones who give us a 'bad name' after all
