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Where Do Stolen Bikes Go?

12 points by alibarber 4y ago

runsonrum 4y ago
I cant seem to find the article now but over here e-scooters were being tossed in the rivers. I can imagine the same could easily go for stolen bikes. Any one have any related articles of such nature?
- Jolter 4y ago
  Why would people go to the trouble of defeating a bike lock and then throw the bike in the river?
  - ojhughes 4y ago
    The same reason people vandalise bus stops or joy ride cars
nixass 4y ago
Interesting thing, Dutch train bicycle spotted in Morocco https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/w0dep7/a_dutch_public_train_bike_spotted_in_morocco/ https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/w0dep7/a_dutch_publ...
- tyingq 4y ago
  A plumber in Texas seeing his work truck turned into a "Technical" (large bed mounted weapon) and fighting in Syria: https://archive.is/gw9Zk https://archive.is/gw9Zk
sandworm101 4y ago
Expensive bikes = chopped for parts, then ebay. Medium-priced bikes = ebay. Cheap bikes = the river. The bikes in this article seem on the lower end of the market, which is normal for amsterdam imho. The area is small and very flat, almost exclusively on hard surfaces. I dont see many of the high-performance mountain/trail/road bikes that are the norm in western north america. This would impact the black market. I doubt there is much of any market for used bike parts, negating the entire chop shop concept.
thoughtsbykean 4y ago
cool line visuals using mapbox. Will need to look into how that is done
- denton-scratch 4y ago
  I didn't like the presentation at all. I'm not on a mobile device; the amount of information on the screen at one time is tiny, like one sentence, and the UX is unpredictable. I think it's the result of the "mobile first" dogma, when you don't follow through with "desktop second". IME, "mobile first" usually degenerates into "mobile mainly".
  - neogodless 4y ago
    I felt the same way and I am on mobile.
- kylebarron 4y ago
  The line visuals at the bottom are not using Mapbox for the data rendering. Rather they're using the open source Kepler.gl [0], (a user-friendly wrapping of the deck.gl library [1]). These can use Mapbox for the underlying basemap, but the data rendering is done separately. (This is easy to tell if you look at the page source. The map at the bottom is an embed from a static HTML kepler.gl map [2]). Disclaimer: I've contributed to deck.gl [0]: https://kepler.gl/ https://kepler.gl/ [1]: https://deck.gl/ https://deck.gl/ [2]: https://senseable.mit.edu/bike-trafficking/assets/kepler.html https://senseable.mit.edu/bike-trafficking/assets/kepler.htm...
AllegedAlec 4y ago
Experience in dutch cities: 1: students buy cheap bikes 2: druggies steal cheap bikes 3: students buy cheap bike from druggies
merricksb 4y ago
Big discussion about 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34822281 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34822281 (197 points | 51 days ago | 299 comments)
brokenkebaby 4y ago
This an elaborate presentation which frankly speaking has no meaning. You start reading, and it feels like an intro to an interesting research, or detective story, but then it just ends.

12 points by alibarber 4y ago

I cant seem to find the article now but over here e-scooters were being tossed in the rivers. I can imagine the same could easily go for stolen bikes. Any one have any related articles of such nature?

Jolter 4y ago
Why would people go to the trouble of defeating a bike lock and then throw the bike in the river?
- ojhughes 4y ago
  The same reason people vandalise bus stops or joy ride cars

nixass 4y ago

Interesting thing, Dutch train bicycle spotted in Morocco https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/w0dep7/a_dutch_public_train_bike_spotted_in_morocco/ https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/w0dep7/a_dutch_publ...

tyingq 4y ago
A plumber in Texas seeing his work truck turned into a "Technical" (large bed mounted weapon) and fighting in Syria: https://archive.is/gw9Zk https://archive.is/gw9Zk

sandworm101 4y ago

Expensive bikes = chopped for parts, then ebay. Medium-priced bikes = ebay. Cheap bikes = the river. The bikes in this article seem on the lower end of the market, which is normal for amsterdam imho. The area is small and very flat, almost exclusively on hard surfaces. I dont see many of the high-performance mountain/trail/road bikes that are the norm in western north america. This would impact the black market. I doubt there is much of any market for used bike parts, negating the entire chop shop concept.

thoughtsbykean 4y ago

cool line visuals using mapbox. Will need to look into how that is done

denton-scratch 4y ago
I didn't like the presentation at all. I'm not on a mobile device; the amount of information on the screen at one time is tiny, like one sentence, and the UX is unpredictable. I think it's the result of the "mobile first" dogma, when you don't follow through with "desktop second". IME, "mobile first" usually degenerates into "mobile mainly".
- neogodless 4y ago
  I felt the same way and I am on mobile.
kylebarron 4y ago
The line visuals at the bottom are not using Mapbox for the data rendering. Rather they're using the open source Kepler.gl [0], (a user-friendly wrapping of the deck.gl library [1]). These can use Mapbox for the underlying basemap, but the data rendering is done separately. (This is easy to tell if you look at the page source. The map at the bottom is an embed from a static HTML kepler.gl map [2]). Disclaimer: I've contributed to deck.gl [0]: https://kepler.gl/ https://kepler.gl/ [1]: https://deck.gl/ https://deck.gl/ [2]: https://senseable.mit.edu/bike-trafficking/assets/kepler.html https://senseable.mit.edu/bike-trafficking/assets/kepler.htm...

AllegedAlec 4y ago

Experience in dutch cities: 1: students buy cheap bikes 2: druggies steal cheap bikes 3: students buy cheap bike from druggies

merricksb 4y ago

Big discussion about 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34822281 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34822281 (197 points | 51 days ago | 299 comments)

brokenkebaby 4y ago

This an elaborate presentation which frankly speaking has no meaning. You start reading, and it feels like an intro to an interesting research, or detective story, but then it just ends.