There are all sorts of things you can do on a bicycle, and I encourage most of them.
Not included on that list is burglary. Now, I don't recommend stealing in any circumstance, but if you must go to other people's homes and businesses and take their stuff, I don't recommend that you do it on a bicycle.
For one thing, it makes the rest of us in the cycling community look bad.
For another, in most places--at least in the US--you would be easy to identify and track down. Bicycles are not, as yet, the preferred "getaway" vehicle for criminals. So you would stand out as much as if you were as tall as an NBA player or wide as an NFL player.
And, even if you have a mountain or "fat" bike with studded tires, don't ride your bike in the snow to rob people's homes, stores, offices or warehouses. Actually, I would say not to do your dirty deeds on a snowy day especially if you have a bike suited to the weather, as that would be--and make you--easier to identify.
I would have given all of the advice I've just listed to a 52-year-old Detroit-area man. Whether he would have listened is another matter. Since December, he's ridden his bike to and from a dozen burglaries in Motor City-area stores and gas stations. He always struck very early in the morning, before those businesses opened for the day, and took cash, candy and cigarettes.
His image was captured on surveillance videos. But the police finally caught him after following tire tracks in the snow to a house--where, as it turned out, he'd stashed some of his booty, and himself.
Not included on that list is burglary. Now, I don't recommend stealing in any circumstance, but if you must go to other people's homes and businesses and take their stuff, I don't recommend that you do it on a bicycle.
For one thing, it makes the rest of us in the cycling community look bad.
For another, in most places--at least in the US--you would be easy to identify and track down. Bicycles are not, as yet, the preferred "getaway" vehicle for criminals. So you would stand out as much as if you were as tall as an NBA player or wide as an NFL player.
And, even if you have a mountain or "fat" bike with studded tires, don't ride your bike in the snow to rob people's homes, stores, offices or warehouses. Actually, I would say not to do your dirty deeds on a snowy day especially if you have a bike suited to the weather, as that would be--and make you--easier to identify.
I would have given all of the advice I've just listed to a 52-year-old Detroit-area man. Whether he would have listened is another matter. Since December, he's ridden his bike to and from a dozen burglaries in Motor City-area stores and gas stations. He always struck very early in the morning, before those businesses opened for the day, and took cash, candy and cigarettes.
His image was captured on surveillance videos. But the police finally caught him after following tire tracks in the snow to a house--where, as it turned out, he'd stashed some of his booty, and himself.
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