Stolen: 2011' Giant CRX-3 - Darling Harbour, Sydney
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 4:51 am
Hi everybody,
I did not expect my FIRST post to be about this. I am new to Sydney and Australia (originally from Russia), bought a bike and registered here recently and was going to introduce myself in "Member Profiles" subforum, it seems like I have a bad karma...
My brand new bicycle was just stolen today while I was watching the Argentina-Germany soccer game at Darling Harbour. It was chained to a pole at the backyard of the Sydney Aquarium building, right across the Wheat St, not far from the King St, here is a Google Maps link:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&ll= ... 02583&z=19
It had a pretty decent (or at least I thought so) lock - Tioga Platinum, which was professionally broken (no scratches or any visible damage outside). The lock was left at the scene.
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/1901 ... lelock.jpg
I did call police right away, and though they were not friendly at all (it reminded me of Russia!) but at least they gathered my info and provided me with a police report number.
The bicycle is the latest 2011 model Giant CRX-3, dark blue medium size frame, unmodified at all so it does not have any unique details (I did not even have any time to do anything with it yet). It was not registered at Australian Bike Registry as I was not aware that it could be registered (now I appreciate this system in Japan with mandatory bicycle registration).
I still cannot believe it happened.. The bicycle was there for just about two and half hours, from ~11.45 pm to ~2.30 am, so it seems like bastards are scouting this area for bicycles during the games??
Guys and gals, please let me know if there is anything else I can do, what else should I do?
And be careful out there, I learned this the hard way..
I did not expect my FIRST post to be about this. I am new to Sydney and Australia (originally from Russia), bought a bike and registered here recently and was going to introduce myself in "Member Profiles" subforum, it seems like I have a bad karma...
My brand new bicycle was just stolen today while I was watching the Argentina-Germany soccer game at Darling Harbour. It was chained to a pole at the backyard of the Sydney Aquarium building, right across the Wheat St, not far from the King St, here is a Google Maps link:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&ll= ... 02583&z=19
It had a pretty decent (or at least I thought so) lock - Tioga Platinum, which was professionally broken (no scratches or any visible damage outside). The lock was left at the scene.
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/1901 ... lelock.jpg
I did call police right away, and though they were not friendly at all (it reminded me of Russia!) but at least they gathered my info and provided me with a police report number.
The bicycle is the latest 2011 model Giant CRX-3, dark blue medium size frame, unmodified at all so it does not have any unique details (I did not even have any time to do anything with it yet). It was not registered at Australian Bike Registry as I was not aware that it could be registered (now I appreciate this system in Japan with mandatory bicycle registration).
I still cannot believe it happened.. The bicycle was there for just about two and half hours, from ~11.45 pm to ~2.30 am, so it seems like bastards are scouting this area for bicycles during the games??
Guys and gals, please let me know if there is anything else I can do, what else should I do?
And be careful out there, I learned this the hard way..