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Hakim0777
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Bought a Bike I think is stolen
#14592363 - 06/10/11 07:53 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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And dont feel like riding it around and getting confronted/arrested.
My question is, whats the best way to paint it and make it pretty much different looking. Also, is a bike shop gonna be suspicious if I bring in a brandless spray painted bike? lol.
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: Hakim0777]
#14592394 - 06/10/11 07:58 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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no bike shop is going to say anything, my bike is fully custom paint.
File off / paint over any serial numbers you can find too.
Take off anything uniquely non-stock on the bike so that even if someone think it is theirs there is no way to prove it's not just the same model of bike you bought yourself.
Or you could just ride it, be honest, and if some guy says it's his, offer to give it back to him and ask him to pay you to recoup the price you paid to return it to him.
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Hakim0777
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: Shins]
#14592407 - 06/10/11 08:00 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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word ok. Im not worried about a serial number its an ancient road bike haha. would I need to put on a gloss finish after the paint?
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: Hakim0777]
#14592425 - 06/10/11 08:04 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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A clear coat or two at the end would make it shiny
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: lucas_southoz]
#14592444 - 06/10/11 08:08 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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My bike is completely flat black 
I bmx and live in a shitty part of town, I actually made my bike ugly for theft prevention, my bike's worth more than my car.
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: lucas_southoz] 2
#14592446 - 06/10/11 08:08 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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You sure you didnt steal it?
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: Hakim0777]
#14592460 - 06/10/11 08:10 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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If you're worried about it getting scratched you might want to put on some kind of protective layer.
Personally, i just sprayed it on and rolled with it.
Mine's a BMX that gets thrashed around a lot, and the paint its surprisingly not too scratched at all.
I don't really care about scratches though...
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: Hakim0777]
#14592461 - 06/10/11 08:11 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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dude I saw the guy who stole the bike and sell it to you, so it's definitely stolen.. the #1 question is why are you doing something you'd be paranoid about getting stopped by, and #2, why are you associating with people that would be involved in the stealing of a bike. or #3 you're just being paranoid... RELAX
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: PreparationH]
#14592466 - 06/10/11 08:11 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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PreparationH said: My bike is completely flat black 
I bmx and live in a shitty part of town, I actually made my bike ugly for theft prevention, my bike's worth more than my car.
You bmx?! right on brotha! i just got back from the park.
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: Two_Swarm]
#14592474 - 06/10/11 08:14 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Two_Swarm said: dude I saw the guy who stole the bike and sell it to you, so it's definitely stolen.. the #1 question is why are you doing something you'd be paranoid about getting stopped by, and #2, why are you associating with people that would be involved in the stealing of a bike. or #3 you're just being paranoid... RELAX 
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: Two_Swarm]
#14592486 - 06/10/11 08:16 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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OP for stealing a bike
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: Shins]
#14592488 - 06/10/11 08:17 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've been riding a bike for like 4 years. I actually just hooked my bike up today with some much needed upgrades
New animal grips new odyssey plastic pedals, tryin them out, so far so good my buddy gave me the most uncomfortable seat I have ever rode but my bike is light as fuck so I'm kinda diggin it.
my frame's the original Sunday, profile hub rear hub laced to odyssey rim, front macneil hub laced to odyssey, odyssey forks, fly cranks, animal stem, Jack Daniels sticker on the frame like a G.
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: PreparationH]
#14592523 - 06/10/11 08:24 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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that bike sounds dope
got any youtube vids of tricks or are you just G'n
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: Two_Swarm]
#14592526 - 06/10/11 08:24 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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i ride a Fbm heathen white frame with colony cranks, peddles, federal seat and grips, umm and federal bars
Colony rims, headset and stem
Watch out for them scooter kids
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Two_Swarm
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: Locky]
#14592540 - 06/10/11 08:28 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Locky said: Colony rims, headset and stem
Watch out for them scooter kids 
yeah that's dope but some kidz ride scooters because they are handicaped or disabled. and to laugh at them, or call a grown man a kid would be mean, cause those poor people have souls too. I mean dang, the special olympics is funny, isn't it... but is it? What if Reincarnation were ture and that retarded guy was actually your second cousions brothers uncle.
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: PreparationH]
#14592558 - 06/10/11 08:32 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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PreparationH said: I've been riding a bike for like 4 years. I actually just hooked my bike up today with some much needed upgrades
New animal grips new odyssey plastic pedals, tryin them out, so far so good my buddy gave me the most uncomfortable seat I have ever rode but my bike is light as fuck so I'm kinda diggin it.
my frame's the original Sunday, profile hub rear hub laced to odyssey rim, front macneil hub laced to odyssey, odyssey forks, fly cranks, animal stem, Jack Daniels sticker on the frame like a G.
Yup, that would be more expensive than a car LOL
nice though!
I have the old reuben frame/forks 1664 bars, and.... a bunch of other stuff lol. I can't remember 1/2 of it.
oh i have mcneil conjoined cranks with a TI spindle and mag pedals w/ a backwards dinner plate (mcneil guard sprocket) 
She's about 30 lbs but tough as nails w/ good geometry
Been riding about 11 years with a 2 year break, just started back up this spring.
I never knew there were so many BMXers here Lockey!
Dude, you smoke lettuce AND BMX, what else do you do that i do? lol.
I have plans to make a little edit if my girlfriend will ever come and film.
I have no pics/vids otherwise, if i ever make that vid ill post it up in the shroomery!
BRB with pic of my bike
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: Two_Swarm]
#14592564 - 06/10/11 08:33 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I have seen a guy do flips/grinds and such on a wheelchair it was awesome, he is on youtube
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: Shins]
#14592566 - 06/10/11 08:33 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Watch out for them scooter kids 
I saw 2 skaters snake each other today and had an awesome head on collision, "best" one i've seen in awhile.
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: Locky]
#14592571 - 06/10/11 08:34 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Locky said: I have seen a guy do flips/grinds and such on a wheelchair it was awesome, he is on youtube
yeah! i've seen that guy!
hella inspiring i say.
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the human abstract said: that bike sounds dope
got any youtube vids of tricks or are you just G'n

Na The only tricks I can do are manual forever, 360, 180, barspin, every grind but toothpicks/over tooth because fuck that lol. fakie wallride, full cab once in a blue moon.
That's my entire bag of tricks, I stopped progressing 2 years ago because I went away to school for 10 months so now I've been just using it as transportation and racing in the woods.
I got lucky, I grew up around a guy who is friends with the animal/skavenger team and ended up being taught by some seriously good people.
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: PreparationH]
#14592583 - 06/10/11 08:36 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: Locky]
#14592593 - 06/10/11 08:38 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Locky said: I have seen a guy do flips/grinds and such on a wheelchair it was awesome, he is on youtube
ever seen a wheel chair try to go downhill through a mudpit? Takes the pro to not flip face.. JK I mean people with one arm and one eye are awesome. That's the whole point, the more they are missing, the more they have to make up for it. TO be a person is to be whole, and most of us are missing something, somewhere in our soul, which keeps us going, and finding pictures along the way. It's all in the way you look at it, most Middle class and up people are all Handicapped, in the subject of the diverse and bustling reality of modern earth.
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: Shins]
#14592599 - 06/10/11 08:40 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Cranks/pedals/tires are different now, and the sprocket is reversed so that the guard is on the inside.
The whole thing cost me about $450, the cranks/spindle cost more than the rest of the bike.
I bought it off some guy on craigs list for $180 and it was all trashed, but i fixed er up good!
My previous bike was stolen!!! 
I spent over a grand on that one.
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: Two_Swarm]
#14592602 - 06/10/11 08:41 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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my only damn problem left with my bike that if I had the money/cared to change is that my wheel is right side drive and I grind on the right. Wish I had left side drive but when that's your only issue, you're fine.
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Re: Bought a Bike I think is stolen [Re: Devlish2]
#14592764 - 06/10/11 09:07 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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i had a haro and was learning to do the flat land tricks
never could get the manual for long so i quit.. then my bike also got stolen
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the problem with artisans of economical advantage is that, blinded by their ambitions, situations manifest that would pro-cuer something that might be relevant to the current situations of not so random people reading the thoughts of a not so distant person. Anything is applicable... just don't go Effin=and be smart.. <3
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the human abstract said: OP for stealing a bike
I dont know what youre talking about.
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