Stolen in East Bay: Grey Saddlesack (large) + brooks B17 saddle (honey)

[Sean Kline]

Hi all:

Stolen Sunday March 27 ~8 pm in front of Cerrito Theatre/Elevation 66 Brewery in El Cerrito:

- Large grey Saddleback (with some tools)
- Brooks B17 honey brown saddle

If you see either of these surface in the Bay Area, particularly the less common SaddleSack bag, please contact me: 510.717.2736.

Thanks,
Sean

[Sean Kline]

Sorry for autocorrect. That should have been large 'Saddlesack' bag, grey

Sent via phone-pls excuse brevity and misspellings

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[LeahFoy]

Terrible. We were just talking about how unlikely it was to have the saddlesack stolen in a recent thread! Will say a prayer you get them back.

[Jack Doran]

Awfully sorry to hear it, Sean. Pretty brazen thief, that being a place with quite a bit of foot traffic. Will keep my eyes peeled. 

[Dan McNamara]

Ouch! I'll keep an eye peeled around work in Emeryville / West Berkeley.

That really sucks.

Dan

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[Dave]

That sucks Sean and here's hoping you get it back. Will keep my eyes open in N. Berkeley. Any particular characteristics about the saddlesack aside from the grey color? Patches, buttons, stains, etc?

[Bill Lindsay]

Bummer.  I'll keep my eyes out as well as I travel the mean streets of El Cerrito

Bill Lindsay

El Cerrito, CA

[Sean Kline]

Thanks all. And, FYI, I had not yet done what I had planned to do...wax/ball-bearing the allen nut connecting my seat to the pit-locked seat post. That would have at least the thief down.

Dave: there's nothing obviously special about the bag--the leather was waxed, but it was still in new-ish condition. I received the bag from Riv without slits cut in the leather bottom to connect it to a rack. So, I cut rough slits for this purpose myself. It's wasn't the most elegant looking but functional.

[Patrick Kelly]

I'm sorta guessing that the reason they took the bag was because it
was attached to the saddle. It's known that you can resell brooks
saddles for actual money, whereas I doubt your off-the-shelf bike
thief would be able to sell a canvas saddle bag. So, I'm guessing that
it was easier to take the bag, than to leave it. I.e., easier to
detach from the bike once the saddle was free, than to detach from the
saddle. Amiright?

[erin s.]

That really sucks. My panniers were stolen off my bike at the Del Norte BART station yesterday. Granted, they're of the Dutch oilcloth/saddlebag variety and not very fancy, but dammit they were useful! 

EC cyclists beware...

On Monday, March 28, 2016 at 8:26:07 AM UTC-7, Sean Kline wrote:

[Sean Kline]

Yes—I think you're probably right Patrick. 

I am 90% sure the brown B17 in this photo from a current Craigslist ad is my saddle:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bop/5520958175.html (and screenshot attached for when the ad goes down, in case anyone is looking for their saddle)

However, I am not sure what the best course is, give I have photos of my saddle on my bike from a distance only and I would need to pretend to be a buyer. I have a call in to the El Cerrito Police on this. 

I'm curious to see if my SaddleSack appears in an ad. Hope you can get your panniers back Erin.

Sean

[Lungimsam]

Definitely makes a case for ironing your name into your saddle.

Try the bicyclebolts.com for your next seatpost/saddle security fixing bolts.

[dstein]

I addition to bicyclebolts.com (and pitlocks), check out this kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hexlox/hexlox-anti-theft-for-saddles-wheels-and-more-made

There's always risks with kickstarter, but a $26 pledge isn't much for a basic set of saddle locks that work with your existing bolts (too little too late I realize, but should help for the future).

Sorry to hear about the saddle and saddlesack though. 

[Sean Kline]

Thanks. Those locks in the Kickstarter campaign look elegant. I wonder how strong they are. 

 

I have pitlocks on my (and my partner's) wheels and seat posts. Sadly, I actually bought Allen bicycle bolts at Missing Link bike coop in Berkeley 6 months ago, but the Allen key stripped the bolts...or more accurately, I stripped the bolts using the key while I was tightening them just a little too much, which didn't seem like that much. So, I then decided to go with wax and ball bearings....a little too late. 

 

Leaving our two Rivs outside for 120 minutes already broke my ~20-minute rule, but I was foolishly convinced that all of the foot traffic where the bikes were would deter. I know better and 99% of the time use the growing number of secure bike parking options across the Bay Area.

 

In a marginally related note, I'm just returning from the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN. The weekend pass for this cool festival included free bike rental from the Tennessee Valley Bike Shop. The shop owner told me that virtually no one uses U-Locks, as theft is just so rare. True enough—I saw a lot of weak cable locks around town. One of the shop employees even leaves his bike out without a lock at all. 

Sigh,

Sean

[David Stein]

Yeah bike theft is so well organized in urban areas and the Bay Area specifically (to the point where a local nextdoor post in Oakland was suspicious of people following riders on nice bikes to their home to break in later and steal). Once you get to smaller cities I can't imagine that bike theft is anything other than a crime of opportunity, something quick and easy to sell at a pawn shop for some quick cash as a one off. I doubt a common thief in Knoxville even knows what a Brooks saddle is.

https://rockridgeca.nextdoor.com/news_feed/?post=23342811

Text paste for those that don't have a nextdoor account or if link doesn't work:

"Just an FYI, twice now while working in my front yard at Forest and Boyd Ave. I have witnessed the same guy on a bicycle following at a distance, another cyclist riding what appeared to be a very high end bicycle. My thought is that this guy hangs out around the college area until he spots someone riding a very expensive bike then follows them home to get the location of his next bike theft. You would be well advised to look over your shoulder as you approach your home to make sure your not being watched / followed."

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