Glad you recovered your bike!
Similar thing happened to me once, super early on our way up to Pemberton. Stopped at a friend's house off Lonsdale at 6am. Ran up the steps to knock on his door, turn around, bike's gone off my NSR. It happened that fast.
Now I pay an extra insurance rider to ensure that if another bike gets stolen I actually get enough money to buy another one (or at least pay for most of it). And most importantly: always lock your bike to your rack. Always, no matter the length of journey.
I also recovered that bike, well the frame. I put up notices on all the bike sites, set up Google alerts, and dropped off a flyer at every bike shop in the city figuring my bike might turn up. Inevitably it did. The shop held it for me. The guy who 'bought the frame off some other guy' wasn't charged. But I got my frame back.
March 19, 2021, 7:26 a.m. - Cr4w
Glad you recovered your bike! Similar thing happened to me once, super early on our way up to Pemberton. Stopped at a friend's house off Lonsdale at 6am. Ran up the steps to knock on his door, turn around, bike's gone off my NSR. It happened that fast. Now I pay an extra insurance rider to ensure that if another bike gets stolen I actually get enough money to buy another one (or at least pay for most of it). And most importantly: always lock your bike to your rack. Always, no matter the length of journey. I also recovered that bike, well the frame. I put up notices on all the bike sites, set up Google alerts, and dropped off a flyer at every bike shop in the city figuring my bike might turn up. Inevitably it did. The shop held it for me. The guy who 'bought the frame off some other guy' wasn't charged. But I got my frame back.