okay..............

so i know alot of people on here have had a bike or two stolen in thier time (myself included)

however, i was wondering who wants to fess up and admit they took some themselves. seems alot of people had bikes taken but who took them?

i would assume other kids who where into bmx?

so who has some balls to step up to the plate? maybe apologize and admit fault?

i myself am clean and proud to have never taken anything from anyone without paying.

If buying $3000 worth of bikes for $200, I'm guilty. Other than that, I'm an

does teaching someone a lesson count?

BITD, we had a kid who always had really expensive bikes come in to the shop. he'd always leave them unlocked (even tho we had loaner locks right by the door). while he was looking around i'd go out the side door and bring his bike in and hide it. once he noticed it was gone, we'd let him sweat it for awhile. thing is, he never learned...i musta done that 5-6 times, and finally it really did get stolen.

I was out riding one night with a buddy and he sees a bike on a patio and decides he's going to take it. I was completely against it but he gave me the old "Don't be a chicken-s**t" speech" and took it. We take off for his house and the whole time he's telling me "See how easy that was, nothing to be afraid of..." and on and on.
We come around a corner- and at this point I'm towing the bike by the crossbar- and all of a sudden we hear a four barrel carb kick in. We both look back and here comes a cop hauling buttocks at us. I think "Great- this is what I get for being part of this." I look over to see what my bud's reaction is...and he's gone. I've never seen him pedal that fast. I pull over towards the sidewalk thinking at least I'll avoid getting stick time- and the cop car goes flying by me. He's on a call, not after us at all.
I get to this kids house, and he's hiding inside with all the lights off. I asked him what happened to not being a chicken-s**t? The bike turned out to be a POS with nothing decent on it and I thought "I could have gone to jail for this?"
First and last bike I ever took.

OK, I did.

1975. I stole some chicks Schwinn 10 speed, I wanted the seat for my Lemon Peeler.

All saints flame me now.

Yeah...stealing it back from the bastage that stole mine

Yes 1985 I stole a crummy ten speed to ride back to my dorm at Michigan State Univ. I was drunk, it was 3 am and my judgement was off. I rode it for another 3 months until it was re-stolen. It had no brakes and was unlocked when I got it, I think it was handed off between needy students! Don't make it right but I confess!

Never stole one but had one stolen when I was very young... then later in life I was twice fortunate enough to catch a-holes trying to steal my bike and beat the living #%@& out of them! ... and would do it again if the occasion were to arise.

Never stole a bike. After having a bike stolen I did get a "great deal" on a Fuji. Needless to say the bike would burn your hands when you rode it. riding it one day the original owner saw me and stopped me. We talked for a bit he was going to get a new bike with insurance money. I told him once he gets the new bike to come and get this one because I should have a new bike by then. Well he was telling his plan to a friend when his dad overheard him. His dad came to my house took the bike. Then later the police showed up asking me about the bike. I did not want to rat out the guy I got it from (he did not steal the bike) so I lied to the cops. My mom asked me what I said to the cops I told her the lie I told the cops. She knew the real story and took me down to the station to tell the truth. Tough lesson to learn in the 6th grade.

I have another recieving a stolen bike story but I wil save for later with some pics.

never stolen one, but have had a few stolen.once had my stormer and my brothers rampar stolen from a bike rack at school.i actually tracked down the kid who stole them and ratted him out to the cops.the cops tracked him down and when they went to his house they found about 75-80 stolen bikes.we got ours back but most the others just sat at the pd after that ,cause they couldnt find the owners.

I was a little thief when I was young (up until about 4th 5th grade)
I took all kinds of bikes, usually just junk.
Once I got my chrome Team Schwinn, I had no need to steal anything, because I had the bike I wanted at that time, and I got it from a friend for $20.00(that I earned on my paper-route), then I got my Hutch, Then my titanium Petro-Lite, then my CW....The feeling I had in my stomach when my Hutch was stolen REALLY made me realize how other kids must have felt, and I truly felt worse for the bikes that I stole, than I did that mine was stolen.

When My dad found out my Hutch was stolen(before I caught the dude that stole it) He said to me:
"Now you know how all those other kids must have felt...........don't think for a second that I didn't know where they all came from." "That, my son is called Karma, and Karma just took a nice bite out of your a$$." I had no idea what Karma was, or what he meant by that...but I deserved having my hutch stolen(even when it got stolen for good), and having my Torker Cruiser stolen.

Honestly, I thought about doin it a million times, but never had the stones to actually see it through.

Not outright stolen, no...but paid $60 if I remember correctly for my Expert Racer from a kid down the street. And it was well-equipped.

Once it crossed my mind in college. A guy was showing of a new bike he had "found"- he was bragging about stealing it the night before in a stupor. As I took it for a spin, I thought "I should just ride away" to teach him a lesson, but then I thought that would be stupid. So I rode it back and told him that he was a dumb [please review the site FAQs] for stealing it.

I can relate to this. I never actually stole a bike but I did buy a Quad that I knew (although it was never verbally said) was stolen. Karma caught up to me and it was stolen from me about 4 months later. Karma really bit me in the arse when my own Quad (bought from the bike shop) was stolen, what sick feeling that was to come out of the arcade and see a cut chain just hanging from the bike rack. NEVER AGAIN!

is this being recorded?
No comment
But boy I could tell some stories...

No, but I have to admit I had thought about it a few times. Luckily I had enough sense to let right override my want.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SivUT1x7j18

Perfect post for this thread.

Well when i lived in California a friend of mine stole this triked out 20"er well the nexed day
we tore it apart and put different pieces of the bike on our bikes and went for a ride well the owner
saw us riding and followed us to my house in a yellow van. And there stood Toby Henderson and another BMX friend of his and made us strip down our bikes right on my front lawn(I think the parts that were on his bike were proto types)He dident beat the S--t out of us but was really mad because we were using vise grips to take the parts off well he left and my Mother beat the living CR-p out of me never hung out with that guy again.
Well now thats off the chest So TOBY HERES A PUBLIC APOLAGE SORRY DUDE FOR WHAT MY BUDDY DID.And for me not to of known better
Joey G.
PS all of this happend in ARTESIA,CALIFORNIA

Never stole a bike but I did purchase a couple stolen frames from a dirtbag in high school. He sold me an 85 Haro master and a Mongoose Californian on separate occasions for $30 a piece. Both had all decals removed and paint was stripped to chrome. I actually may not have known that they were stolen at the time but I figured it out eventually. On the other side of the coin I had 3 bikes stolen from me... luckily all 3 were department store bikes. I was much more careful after getting my first decent bike.

If this is true then...holy crap!

Very true

I actually stole a bike the other day........A fully equipped Hutch XL24 to be exact....and I am glad I did it!




OK so it was my own bike. I happened to ride my full decked out XL24 to dinner and locked it up outside the restaurant. (I live in a small town, and do this all the time) Some how between dinner and walking around main street I lost the key to my lock. So I had a choice to wait until way later to come back and saw the lock, or do it right in front of everyone at 8:00 at night. So rather than risk someone else being tempted, I put on a show with 20 people wondering why I was hacksawing a lock off a kids bike right in front of the restaurant. Apparently it was quite a specticle...

Not as such, no. Jason Foglia's granpa left the garge door open while we were at school, and some dirtbag stole his white/black 87 or 88 Haro Sport. He was crushed. A coupla days later we were driving around in my car when we pulled up to a 7-11 for a drink. As soon as I pulled into the parking lot I said "Hey J, isn't that YOUR bike?", and it was. Sitting unlocked right next to the door. Jason was unsure of what to do, but I had the plan, and conveniently, a bike rack on my car. Jason was concerned about us getting in trouble for stealing back his bike. I just looked at him and said "Do you still have the reciept?". He said "yeah.". I said, "Then you can prove it's your bike. There's no crime in reclaiming your property". Not hearing any more on the subject, I grabbed the bike and put it on the rack. Then we went riding.

It wasn't me but if you remember an article in BMXA around 1984 it talked about all the bikes stolen from the ABA Grands that year. Well come to find out years later it was a guy in my neighborhood in OKC.

F**k no.

Richard Vogt
bmxmountainbiker

P.S. But I have been on a few recon missions to recover stolen bikes...

well gotta say im guilty, back in the early 80s i had a few bikes one of them was a blue ra 7 race inc bought it used but was very clean, so the story goes like this, there was this older kid who stold alot of kids bikes in the neighbor hood, i traded my race inc for i think the pro performer i have now 85 ? from him, about a half a yr later my orange and white vector freestyle gets yanked and nobody near me had orange parts but this dic_ on another one of his bikes, we made the identification on my orange parts and went to claim my old race inc back that i had traded, all said and done we thru the race inc in a huge ditch witch goes under a road and never went back for it, we new we couldnt keep it cause no one else had a bike like that by me, didnt care anyway cause we were kids, anyhow now im 35 yrs old and have ben back in the game for the lst few yrs and have about 15 bikes complete or half complete from the 80s. ive ben thinking about the race inc, so i went to the sporting goods store and grabbed a pair of waiters and a pole n went fishing in this ditch witch is only 2.5 ft deep and under this road, was in there for an hr with no luck, than bang i herd metal on metal, so i reach down and feel a round pipe and pulled it up, what i had in my hands is a fence post !!, really sucked!! but at least i tried, couldnt sleep at nite before knowing this frame may be there still, most likely the dpw dreaged this and found it, and now its prolly a pop can.. me and my friends never seen the vector frame again but new 4 sure he was the shmuck who stold it...wish i had the bikes i had as a kid.

I left my '83 Silver Streak in front of a drug store, came out 5 minutes later and it was gone. My heart sank. I was demolished. a couple of months went by and my little friend Bill Zincraft came to my house on a Diamondback Formula one his dad got for him: "Richard, Richard I found your bike!"
Turns out a sleaze named B.J. Biosic grabbed it and rode it, then threw it in a big garbage bin. He then told another dork who's name escapes me, where it was. I knew of both of these people, and they would have known who's bike it was just by looking at it.
Well, My bike, at the time had a checkered Elina UL seat post and seat combo. And my friend Bill was in K mart and another kid was bragging about his Diamondback. Bill asked: does it have a checkered seat post? The doofus said: yeah.

Next scene: I'm in the front seat of a police cruiser pulling into this schmuck's driveway and I can see him on his bed in the window with his face in his hands like he was in big trouble. -He was. They were both a year older than me and I never went after B.J. I think he's dead now. And I know his brother went to jail for cramming a quarter stick of Dynamite in a dog and setting it off. -Wonderful people.

well im quite surprised more people havent stepped up and admitted to stealing a bike. seems like everyone on here has a story about having a bmx bike stolen. Yet, nobody took them. except for a few men who stepped up and told tier stories (well appreciated by the way)

anyway, what is there, 16000 members on here? only a few of our members will admit it? i guess we are blessed and that all the kids who stole bmx bikes are on other sites.

comeon folks lets here some stories.

When I was 9 (1986ish) I had my Skyway TA stolen. I ended up with an 82 GT with Philwood hubs and flight cranks to replace it. We ended up getting the bike back in pieces after one of our foster kids saw someone riding around with my GT seat post. Needless to say the good parts off the GT went on my skyway frame.

Fasdt forward 3 years later, I was waiting on parts for my flights, and had some single piece cranks on it. Got stolen again. I recovered just the frame several years later on my paper route.

I had friends steal lots of bikes when I got a little older. I never stole any myself, and kept telling them not to do it. I would spend a lot of time taking the stolen bikes apart and repainting and making parts not recognizeable, just to keep them from getting caught. This included relacing countless rims to other stolen hubs to make them not look the same anymore. They stole a chrome GT once with a ding in the frame. I spent hours using body filler and sanding to get the ding not to show. We painted it red and the original owner saw the bike and said "That looks like my bike that got stolen, except mine had a ding in the frame" I would make serial number look like they never existed on the bike.

I really regret helping my friends out by concealing what they stole.

i did the same thing.

although he was still sitting on my bike cuz i was only minutes behind him on another bike. a thing of beauty.

to Tone - i have never stolen a bike unless it was mine - like described above.

Hey man, I used to live in Edmond around that time and it seems I heard something about that. There used to be a bunch of bike theives running around do you remember the jerk's name? I had a kuwahara and a gt pro performer stolen in 1 year and found out years later who it was.

Personally...no. However, my small group of hoodlums did. I was the wrench since I could strip a bike in a matter of minutes. Story goes...lived in an apartment complex with a lake and close to a grocery/drugstore. One of the guys lived on the lake and the apt next to his was vacant. We would hang out there and a couple of them would hang at the store. Pretty soon here comes one on a ride. I break it down and tie a rope to the f/f and toss it in the lake and put the rope end under a rock. Wait a few weeks and the parts go on our bikes. One of the bikes was a mono shocker of some kind. Pulled it from the lake a month or so later and painted it. Put other parts on it and one of the guys rides it. (Only thing I ever put on my Stingray was a single seat to replace the banana seat). Guy is seen riding bike, gets questioned and rats everyone involved. I was at my dad's for the weekend and when I got home, my bike is in the house and the first thing out of my mom's mouth was: 'where'd that seat come from?' Busted. Guess the police came and all. The next year I got a Pea Picker for my b-day. Left it out front for 10 minutes one day and boom...gone. Never touched another's bike w/o permission...until yesterday.

That was 30 years ago and I have been back into reliving my youth, like a lot of us, for a few years now. I was walking down a Meridian street in Indy yesterday going to the post office and I come up on a bike. I see it has what look like GHP bars from a distance. Getting closer and right up on it I see that it is a newer S&M with Slam bars, profiles and nasty sharp cage pedals. Bike looks nice. I look it over and peer in the window where it was. It was in front of a newly renovated building and I think the guy was filling out an application of some sort. Went on to the PO and sent my daughter's camp care package, all the while thinking about that bike. On the way back, it is still there. I stop and really give it a once over. The guy is not in the window anymore. No one around. I could have easily rode off to my car. Instead, I pulled out my wallet and got one of my home made BMX buyer cards and stuck it in between the grip and the break. Card had my phone and email. As I walked away, I turned around a few times to see if anyone had come out. No phone call, no email. So, yes I touched it.

Freshman year in high school back in 94, One Saturday afternoon Kit (my brother) Omar and I rode over to Mackie’s house to hang out like we always do. When we got to the house we saw Mackie’s, Coco's and Kevin’s bikes all outside on the patio (all PK rippers). Just the week before Kevin wronged Omar in a trade for his single pinch flights. So, Kit with the bright idea decided to steal the cranks back. So we sneak into the garage in Mackie’s backyard, grab all the tools we need to take off the cranks. Sneak the tools back into the garage then ring the door bell and act stupid if anyone of them questions us about the cranks.

After we stashed the cranks in Mackie’s yard we rang the door bell. No answer, so we rang it again and again and again. WOW no one is home and there are 3 very tricked out PK rippers (one missing the cranks) sitting on the patio unlocked. By now one of figured that then Kevin comes back and see only the crank is missing then we will figure out Omar Stole them. So, we run back to the garage, grab the tools again put the cranks and decide to go ahead and steal Kevin's bike. We take the bike home and stripped it apart then stored all the parts except the cranks in the rafters of our garage. The cranks Omar took home and hid under his dresser.

Well one week later, the itch of riding Kevin's parts came over Kit. He put Kevin's rims on his bike and the both of us headed to the bike trail to hit the local jumps. On the way to the trail we passed through the high school and of all the people there that day... We ran into Kevin. He immediately recognized the wheels and within the week all parts including the cranks were returned to Kevin.

Just to clarify thing: Kevin was an a**hole. One of the shadiest guy in high school.