Stolen cargo "trike" bike, Teele Square

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My blue & chrome Torker Tristar cargo trike (a bike with two back wheels and a large cargo basket between them) has been stolen. Please help me look for it!








Distinctive modifications include a non-standard heavy duty white cargo basket with a blue reflective-striped cord (actually a dog leash!) woven through the wires, and silver reflective tape.

I have made a police report. If you see someone riding this unique cycle, please give the Somerville police a call (they say 911 is fine). There are one or two other Somervillians with similar bikes that they have legit, but they would have a different style basket and may not be the Torker brand. My hope, though a slim one, is that the bike hasn't been taken far, and that through word of mouth and its unusual style we can locate it or scare the thief into abandoning it.


EDIT: IT HAS BEEN FOUND! Thank you so much to this community!

Comments

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I am here from tigerbright's LJ. I am very sorry about your trike. I hope you find the guy, or that surrealestate's folder works for you. If you do end up with a bike, I have folding baskets on my carrier; when they're folded up the bike is much slimmer and easy(er) to get through the door.

I kept my bike inside for years and got pretty good at sheparding it in and out through a person door--I can see with a trike it might not work but with a bike it works fine.

Also one of my bike books recommended locking with two different kinds of locks. Because apparently the tools to break a U-lock don't work well on a cable lock and vice versa. One time it was the cross-locking that saved me (I came back to find the cable lock defeated but the bike still in place, safely locked by its U-lock.)

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I'm going to try things like panniers; I just know nothing can replace the convenience and cargo capacity of the trike. It's a shame because it totally *could* fit through a door, the issue is stairs. And room in the apartment. But I live on the 2nd floor, and even when I was allowed by former downstairs neighbors to keep it on the 1st floor back porch, getting it up and down the stairs was a pain. If I ever live in a place that has a flat entry.... Really what I need is access to a garage.

I have actually been doing a lot of reading up on bike locks these past few days, and apparently the two kinds of locks thing is no longer as good advice as it used to be. Nowadays the tools most thieves use to break u-locks can also break the other kinds, and the u-locks are the sturdiest and hardest to break, so two u-locks is now better than one u-lock and one cable, or one u-lock and one chain. There is one particular heavy duty chain company that I can't recall the name of right now, but apparently only their chains were able to withstand the standard tools that work on u-locks. If I can get an off-street place to lock my next bike, whatever it is, I might supplement two u-locks with one of those chains if I could then keep the chain at home rather than cart it around.