If you see a green, red and yellow moped
By adamg - 10/20/08 - 3:28 pm
Let Kickthis know - somebody stole her Rasta moped from Jersey Street in the Fenway last week:
She is the ONLY moped of this color scheme around boston, i promise. she has a black square headlight, had a red bandanna and a nine of spades playing card tucked onto her left handlebar, and a peace sign magnet on her left sidecover. i am absolutely devastated and this was basically the only moped in the world for me :(
Comments
Hmm
I'd better put my Rasta-colored moped away so nobody tries to steal it after reading this article... since the author is encouraging everyone to bolt any they see.
Rastaped Security
Do you need a dread lock or a dread bolt for that?
Either way
It all seems for dread naught.
No GPS or Compass Needed
The thief will navigate by dread reckoning.
Ouch
I see this thread went dreadfully up in smoke.
Forwarded
I forwarded the livejournal page to my scooter club's mailing list. Hopefully it gets returned to her.
In all seriousness ...
The picture is helpful, and I will look out for it.
Also, the picture is very helpful for showing exactly how NOT to lock a bike or moped (not that I have any idea that she had it locked like that when it was taken). If you look closely, you can see that the two wheeler can be had for the trouble of using a wrench to take the wheel off. In the picture, she has it locked around one tine of the fork, which is not secure.
I don't know what kind of sign was on that post ... it is even possible to lift a bike or moped up and over a sign via a loose lock to steal it.
The most secure way to lock up is through the frame and through the wheels - both wheels - with an extension cable.
hipster environmental cesspools
Good riddance. There are a couple of people in my area who own them (ones just like this one- the "retro" mopeds) and they're a nuisance. They're incredibly loud- a weedwhacker with wheels, only worse..and in their quest to be fashionable, these hipsters are polluting more in an hour than an SUV does in a year. You can see the crap they spew out the exhaust, and the particulate emissions (from the 2-cycle oil) and NOx/HC counts have got to be insane.
One went by while I was walking down Green Street ~3 weeks ago and the stench was noticeable as the damn thing screamed trying to get up the street (pretty effin' modest incline.) Last week, I was biking home behind a different idiot on Centre, and had to stop and put some distance between us because of the fumes.
But hey, those aviator goggles are SUPER hip! Pollute away.
It's a small world
Oh, how random. I saw her locking that moped to a post opposite the stated address only last weekend.