Wow, nice bicycles
I bet they weren't mountain bikes ... :-)
Posted on 06/19/2010 2:57:18 PM PDT by Steelfish
Police: Bikes Stolen From Jenna Bush Hager's Home
Sat Jun 19 BALTIMORE – Baltimore police say two bicycles were stolen from the home of Jenna Bush Hager, the daughter of former President George W. Bush. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says no one was at the house owned by Bush Hager and her husband when the burglary occurred Friday afternoon. He says there is no indication that whoever burglarized the home knew who lived there.
Fingerprint evidence was taken, but no suspects have been identified. The bikes worth about $3,500 combined were taken from a garage, and no entry was made into other parts of the home. Police found pry marks on a door into the garage
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Wow, nice bicycles
At least the cops came. Here in Washington, they won’t respond to something like this, instead they’ll issue you an incident number to be submitted to your insurance company.
Who has the big steel ones to steal this couples anything??
My bike is worth maybe $100. A lot more when gas hits $7.00 Where is she? Bet overseas in a country no one will talk about.
And we know very well why the cops arrived to investigate.
My bike is worth maybe $100. A lot more when gas hits $7.00 Where is she? Bet overseas in a country no one will talk about.
You don't want to get a bike for under 3 or 4 hundred. If you do, you will be sorry about it. A 3-4 hundred dollar bike is about the bottom of the barrel. I used to have a Trek until it was stolen right off my front porch as I unlocked it and got ready to ride ... went back in for a few minutes and "poof" ... it was gone. I've got a Raleigh now.
But, the next one I think I'll get is another Trek and it will probably be around $1,000 as then it will be something that will last and hold up well.
Wow, nice bicycles
I bet they weren't mountain bikes ... :-)
and this guy: 
and this guy, too:
John kerry used to ride around beacon hill on a bike worth over 3,000.
My bike is only worth 100 too. But it is for local errands, not for long distance trips. I’ve had it a couple of years, and it’s still a good bike. I can go through a lot of hundred dollar bikes before I get to 3,000 invested in just one bike.
Fingerprinting...for a bike theft? She must be one of them ay-leets!
She probably does, but it is her sister, Barbara, who is so ga-ga over the health care fiasco.
If she was, would that make it ok in your book to break into her home and steal the property of she and her husband? *rolls eyes*
What is it about "there is more to life than politics" do some people on both the left and right do not understand?
Does it really matter? And who really cares except maybe you? Get a life dude, there's more out there in the world than just politics. Take up a hobby such as bass fishin' or crawdadding..........or maybe just growing a garden.......It'll do wonders for your soul.
BIKER ping......look who had their bikes stolen.
I live on top of a hill.......I just drooled over a $2700 bike with some kind of motor to get me home after a long ride.
I’ve got a “funny story” for you. It wasn’t funny to me at the time, but now that a little time has passed on by, I can laugh a little about it.
That bike that was stolen right off my front porch was replaced the next day. I went out and bought another one, and I got a good seat with it (not the one that came with the bike). I took it right out from the store, and was riding with someone else and went into the Safeway store to get something to drink (just a block away) and locked up the bike.
When I came back (just about five minutes later) someone had stolen the seat right off the bike ... yeeoow!
Well, I turned right around, went right back to the bike store and bought the seat a second time. And now I keep the seat locked up, too, along with both wheels of the bike and to something that won’t move, when I’m out and around ... LOL ...
I never trust bicyclists.
I told ‘em to build a fence, but nooooo.... ;-)
$3500 theft. No different than if they had a 10 year old car stolen.
haha same here. Even if they made it into the house and took everything in the house the police MAY show up about 10 hrs later. If you call them and ask them where the heck they are they flat out tell you that your call is a low priority, they are busy, and they will get there when they get there.
Even then they take no prints or anything else, just give you a report number to file with your insurance.
I never trust bicyclists.
Actually, my view of it -- is that it wasn't a bicyclist, but an "thieving opportunist" hoping to sell it to an "unsuspecting bicyclist" for some quick drug money ... that's where most of the "thieving" comes from ...
I’ve had 10x that value stolen from my home, more than once. Nobody took fingerprints.
My current bike was a conglameration of a $5 yard sale model and a couple of give-away-for-parts bikes. I did have to buy a couple of tubes for the tires, but a couple of hours putting it together and fine tuning it was therapetic, imho. Rides nice, for my purposes.
LOL ... let me tell you though... when you’re sailing down a hill at about 50 MPH on your bike, you sure do want it to be solid and hold together like a precision instrument and you definitely want those brakes to work right, too ... :-)
And you do appreciate the precision of a finely-made bike ...
I’ve got a couple of cousins who bought a $90 version and that was a year ago. They keep wondering why I coast faster than they pedal ... LOL ...
I only use mine on outings with the grandkids...besides, this is North Dakota, and 50 mph is more likely with a tailwind than on a hill. (8^D)
I can see it if you ride a lot and in different terrain—you definitely want to make sure your ride will hold up.
I went through all three bikes and picked the best of what was there, and it’s smooth on the ‘flats’ (terrain, not tires)...
I told ‘em to build a fence, but nooooo.... ;-)
ROTFLMAO!
My bike is only worth 100 too. But it is for local errands, not for long distance trips. I’ve had it a couple of years, and it’s still a good bike. I can go through a lot of hundred dollar bikes before I get to 3,000 invested in just one bike.
I'll tell you where you'll see the most dramatic differences in bikes ... it's between the $100-$150 bike -- to the -- $300-400 bike.
The rims on the wheels are different, and much better for your brakes. The braking mechanism is much better. The shifters are better, the "tightness" of the bike, overall, will be amazing (in comparison). It's like you turn and ride with precision on the one and the other is sloppy and loose. With the one the brakes stop precisely and smoothly, the other, you wonder sometimes if they're going to stop at all. With the one, the shifters don't set in the right place, your chain rattles and rub, with the other, it drops precisely into the right place and there's no rubbing anywhere (and neither on the brakes, either, as that's another area where there's rubbing).
If you expect to stop going downhill at any speed on a $100 bike, you're taking your life in your hands ... but with the other bike, you know there's no problem stopping and stopping precisely where you want to stop.
With the $400 bike, you coast along, while the others beside you on a $100 biek are pedalling to keep up with your "coasting" ... LOL ...
With a $100 bike, you're glad you don't have to do it too often or go too far. With a $400 bike, you wonder how you can get more riding in and if you can ride further, the next time ... :-)
And... there is more "difference" between a $100 bike and a $400 bike -- than there is between a $400 bike and a $1,000 bike.
With a $400 bike, it's a joy to ride it 25 miles... but with a $100 bike, you're glad you don't have to go more than a mile or two ... LOL ...
And..., if you get a good bike and then a Burley trailer... heck! ... you can load up on your shopping at the store ... and put it in your trailer.
Who cares.
agreed about the price difference. My son now has a Haro from the local bike shop. After the walmart/Dicks/ Target bikes he finally has a bike that can stand up to the things he does.
Must depend on the quality/workload/caring of the local PD.
I enjoy your descriptions of riding scenarios and the need for various gears and stopping power Traveler. If I were much younger, I would definitely invest in a good quality bike. The good quality bikes of my youth were Italian 10 speeds, and between about age 12 and 19 I racked up a few thousand miles. But that was then. For my needs now, it’s kind of like when you need a pickup truck instead of a Porsche. I’m in no hurry and sometimes I need to carry items from the store. There aren’t any places I ride where there are steep hills to climb or descend. There aren’t any speeds I travel which will burn up my brakes. Just an old geezer peddling along on my Schwinn Beach Cruiser with a metal basket on the handle bars. That’s all.
I don't go riding "all" the time, but I try to as much as I can and I do errands on it, too. I can easily rack up more than 1,500 miles a year, with no problem. I like to track my time and speed and have one of those wireless speedometers from CatEye. I want to get one of those portable GPS units from Garmin and track my routes, too ...
I want to go out more at night and early in the mornings, too... so I want to get a good lighting system, too -- like the Police Department has in Portland. I can't remember the name of the system right now, but the rear tail light is bright enough to call attention to you anywhere. I do have a lighting system now for my bike and I will have it on during the daytime, too, because that will call attention to you even when riding in the daytime.
It can be fun to ride around in the early morning hours, too ... in different places... like one time, a few years back that I rode in downtown San Francisco at around 4 AM, right down the middle of Market Street and over by the TransAmerica Pyramid ... there was no traffic around at that time of the morning and I could easily bike around there and just see what was around.
Biking is a great way to just "look around" at a neighborhood or a section of town you want to see.
That's what the grey_whiskers family typically rides.
A good Sirrus will run $900-$1000 as will an Allez.
My wife finished the first day of the MS150 with basically no training, by riding on her new Dolce. :-)
Cheers!
You need to move.
Come to Minneapolis. :-)
Cheers!
Well of course they didn't -- fingerprints aren't worth very much to a fence ;-)
Geez, you need to move, too. Come to Minneapolis. :-)
Cheers!
As a Minnesotan, I can tell you.
North Dakota ONLY has headwinds.
Cheers!
There was a guy towing a Burley, and everyone thought, "Awww, he's got his kids! What a *great* family activity!"
Until they passed him. It had a half-keg of beer packed in ice.
I took my cubs on the Jesse James ride in Northfield MN one year, killer headwinds.
Only made 54 miles, my wife had to tow them the rest of the 9 miles to the end.
Cheers!
I did move...to an area where you don’t have much to worry about, if you forget to lock your doors.
My insurance agents are much happier. :)
You need to move.
LOL ... that was in Portland, and that's the "biking capital" of the United States. I'm not there now, but in Tulsa.
But, the difference is -- in Portland, since it is the biking capital of the United States, people there knew they had a "market" for stuff like that.
In Tulsa, I don't think anyone would know what to do with a good bike seat ... LOL ... thus you wouldn't get it stolen. It would be like stealing rocks from someone's front yard ... who would want them? My bike seat was half the cost of many people's "low-cost bike" ... :-)
No doubt about it, it was the workload — in an area where they didn’t even fingerprint every kidnapping scene. Seriously.
Recently I witnessed another older driver get struck by a car. It was a very slow speed incident. The driver was behind the limit line and was pulling out and a bicyclist was riding towards him. The driver struck the cyclist. If I had been the cyclist, I would have ridden behind the car pulling out, simply because I don't trust drivers. I guess my time will come and I will get tagged, but so far, knock on wood, so good.
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