One more stolen bike

My first story here, but not the first stolen bike. In my cycling history, different types of bikes disappeared forever.

When covid is still on the headline of the news, I feel like living in a new season of a horror reality show. The title of the current episode is bike thief.

Thief is one the oldest occupation in history, and many of them are skilful people. They can be patient and well prepared, seem everywhere. You may not be able to copy the design of a locksmith key as a legal resident because of reasons they can not tell, but thieves always find a way to get what they want eventually, and any restrictions never stop them. When they can not take the bike as a whole, they will take parts of the bike, leave other parts(usually locked parts). That happened to my bike before somewhere near the city, only bike wheels were gone then.

It is winter now in Australia and more rainy days in Perth than usual years.

There are many times when I open the door then realize the rain is still there. One more rainy day, another rainy night, again and again.

Of course, I still remember to lock my bicycle in the bike room when I'm back from cycling. The strong lock works for me, although it starts to rust because of the wet weather. It was not too old to work. I assume my bike should be safer in a bike room than outside in another place.

The fact is, there is nothing you can do to stop experienced thieves, provided they do interested in a bike, lock it or not. They say.

This time, advanced tools are applied by someone and the lock was broken as you can see in the photo. My bike was the chosen one despite there are several bikes in the bike room completely unlocked. I think the stormy weather made criminals more fearless. A strong lock means nothing at all in this case.

Near the end of August, spring is just around the corner. I'm wondering what my new bike looks like. Now I know there is no CCTV footage in the bike room area so there is no hope to get my bike back in any way.

I'm into a new folded electric bike, better to keep my bike indoors at night as no lock is really safe when it is unattended anywhere these days. That is the strongest and practical protection I can offer to a bike in the near future, I hope that works.

Here is my gofundme link, please click or copy the link to a new browser to know more:

https://gofund.me/9cf717bd

https://gofund.me/9cf717bd

You are more than welcome to contact me on my gofundme page if any questions. I manage it on my own currently.

I decide to donate 10% of the total amount to charities to show my help so I get some further information.

Below is a list of charities and organisers aimed at bikes and cycling (Australia and worldwide from social media, they take money donations). I'm new to them as well, never deal with them ever before. And please remember to leave your comment to express your personal opinion on my gofundme page, I rely on your feedback for charities since I can only donate to one or some of them depend on the total donations I can collect. I'll update details accordingly later on:

Urban Fox Cycle Hub, Cycle loan scheme and repairs http://www.urban-fox.org/

Action for A-T https://actionforAT.org/

bikes4life https://www.bikes4life.com.au/

Bicycles for Humanity https://b4hwa.com/

Dismantle https://www.dismantle.org.au/

world bicycle relief https://worldbicyclerelief.org/

What is Life Cycle for CanTeen

https://lifecyclewa.com/