I’m sorry to hear that. I feel like bikes are one of the items most stolen. They are easy to take if you don’t lock them up. I thankfully never was stolen from, but I know people who have. If you know your serial number, you might have much better luck at locating it.
Thieves are the worst kind of people in the world. They try to free load of peoples hard work. I keep my bike secured in my garage. Haven’t experienced theft. But still it’s very bad to take other people stuffs.
Once it happened in my neighborhood and since we had security cameras outside our home, we gave the video footage and they got back their bike in a couple of days.
My bike was once stolen, was a very sad experience. Kept my bike out side my house. Forgot to lock it, in the morning it went missing. Learnt a very valuable lesson that day. Now, I always secularly lock my bike.
I did lose my bike during my school days. I was reprimanded by my parents for being careless. I got my bike back as it was a staged theft and my friends had done it to scare me which they really did.