$20k worth of bikes and scooters stolen from PIM Bicycles

Meghan Walker Ballard

Local bike shop PIM Bicycles & Coffee lost over $20,000 worth of e-bikes and e-scooters after thieves ransacked the shop early Monday morning.


Owner Justin Hopkins says he watched the surveillance video on Monday after he realized there were some items missing. The video shows that the thieves broke the lock at 1am.

The thieves took several MYLO e-scooters and PIM e-bikes.

PIM, which is located along the Burke-Gilman Trail in Frelard, has a coffee drive-thru for bikes, and is a local favorite for cyclists.

Hopkins told KIRO the stolen items don’t have serial numbers, but hopes that they might be easy to spot because they’re customized. (Here’s the full surveillance video footage from KIRO.)

If you have any information about the incident, contact Seattle Police at 206-625-5011.

18 thoughts to “$20k worth of bikes and scooters stolen from PIM Bicycles”

  1. This stuff used to upset me but now I feel numb to the whole thing. Oh well, too bad! When people care enough to vote out Pete Holmes and other soft-on-criminals leadership, then I’ll have more empathy. For now, let ’em take what they want, I guess. It’s not a person crime. It’s just material goods. Those people need to steal to survive. And all that.

    1. The numbness you feel is planned. AKA “conditioning”. All a gamble. A gamble with house money and endless amounts at that. The ballots have arrived. Time to vote differently this time people. It’s NOT about YOUR feelings folks.

      2. the only candidate in our district i’ve heard discuss criminality is garcia. i sincerely hope that someone that ignorant doesn’t come to represent us.

      1. lol, the list of “top100 criminals in Seattle” for starters – most recently the case of the vagrant that has had repeated arrests for violent behavior that threw coffee on a toddler the other day…

        cute lil terms like “confirmations biases” don’t change the truth about the way the city handles criminals. you should be smarter than this.

        2. You mean the 100 list of cherry picked criminals who nearly all happen to be mentally ill, committing crimes attributed to mental health, something that wasn’t disclosed in the original puff piece? Where they determine that they aren’t fit for jail, but there’s not adequate mental services to properly treat them?

          Yeah, show me the study that shows that actual criminals are being released on the streets, because they aren’t.

          1. That’s not the argument. When we release mentally ill criminals with rap sheets that stretch back 3 decades, we’re putting the public at risk for a more-than-good chance of these people to re-offend, as evidenced by at least this guy in the coffee incident.
            What candidates have lobbied either for or against increased mental treatment services? That’s the question we should be asking when we vote soon.

          2. You’re right, the original comment was:

            if they are caught the city prosecutor wouldn’t be bothered to file charges i assume…

            I responded:

            And you base that on what now (other than your deep rooted confirmations biases)?

            So I’m still waiting for evidence that the people that committed this crime will not have charges brought against them, be it from El Grunion or you.

            A $20,000 theft is deep into felony territory.

          3. I never said they wouldn’t have charges brought against them, so don’t try to obscure my argument, which is: who’s doing anything to decrease the on-street population of violent mentally ill criminals?

          4. Well, since the 1981 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act gutted pretty much all mental illness treatment funding, local and states have been on their own to fund treatment.

            I recall a head tax being proposed, but the same people who complain nonstop about homeless, despite shouting down all solutions, well…shouted that down.

            So yeah, the City can stop listening to the “Safe” Seattle children for one.

            @El Grunion:

            what difference does it make if a “normal” person stabs you or a “mentally ill” person stabs you? its a crime either way. your weepy argument(s) hold no water.

            Again, I’ll ask: can you point to a person not having charges filed against them for stabbing someone? You’re strawman-ing your original argument.

          5. the list makes itself – no “cherry picking” needed.

            what difference does it make if a “normal” person stabs you or a “mentally ill” person stabs you? its a crime either way. your weepy argument(s) hold no water.

          6. I mean, there are a lot of mentally unstable people wandering around the city, especially in pioneer square. There isn’t anything the city can actually do about this.

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