Bikes Stolen In the Bay Area Show Up On Global Blackmarket

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🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Hundreds of bicycles stolen in the Bay Area and other places have ended up for sale in a small town in Jalisco, Mexico. A recent article in Wired follows the efforts of a co-founder of Bike Index, a site where people can report bike thefts, to track down a reseller who set up a supply chain of stolen bikes resold via social media. Meanwhile, bike thieves in the Bay Area have become even more sophisticated in their methods leaving cyclists feeling hopeless and vulnerable. We’ll talk about the local and global black market for stolen bikes and what – if anything – can be done about it. Guests: Carlos Cabrera-Lomeli, community engagement reporter, KQED Bryan Hance, co-founder, Bike Index Christopher Solomon, freelance journalist; author, the recent Wired article “The West Coast’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico" Nancy Hernandez, education program co-manager, Bike East Bay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.2	I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:51.1	Where do all the stolen bikes go?
0:54.1	Seriously, anyone who bikes around town, and maybe
0:57.0	just anyone, knows that bike theft is a ridiculous problem in the Bay Area. Any bike can be stolen,
1:03.0	but the real action is in the higher-end bikes, which might be worth thousands of dollars. You probably have wondered, as I have, how these operations
1:11.8	work. Once someone takes the bike, who ends up buying those hot goods? A new wired feature
1:17.0	tracked one major operation from San Jose to Halisco in Mexico. We'll talk with the author
1:23.0	and hear your stories of bike stolen and found. That's all coming up next right after this news
1:28.6	welcome to forum i'm alexis madrigal i am an everyday cyclist i hesitate to even use that word
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