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3 Stolen Downhill bikes stolen : Forest of Dean PLEASE HELP
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greenwood102Free MemberPosted 12 years ago
3 bikes were stolen by some scum at around 6:30pm 29th of December around Forest of Dean in Puron (Around blakeney, yorkley, viney hill)
A small white van was seen
The bikes were a 2010 Santa Cruz V10, 2011 Mondraker Summum and a 2007 Blue Giant Glory
My details:
Mobile 1: 07810 851 380
Mobile 2: 0778 5555 909
Home phone: 01594 842 454
Email: alfiegreenwood@hotmail.co.ukNoticeable features of bikes:
Santa Cruz V10: Rear braided silver hose, red bars, seatclamp, pedals, and boxxer decals. Also no bar ends. See pics for clear idea of what it looks like
Mondraker Summum: It was stolen with no rear axle, no cassette and no shock. Also helitape on frame, renthal bars, silver hubs. Also odd drotors, front is superstar 180, rear is 203 shimano. Also on swing arm an old tube is used as a chain stay guide. 450mm rear brake and axle adjustment
Giant Glory: Bright blue frame, orange/gold front bars and yellow wheelPICTURES!!!!
Summum + Forks: http://greenwood102.pinkbike.com/album/Summum/ (If you look at the picture of the receipt you will see where the frame number can be found)
V10: http://greenwood102.pinkbike.com/album/Santacruz-V10/ (Looks like the second picture)
Glory: http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/7538175/SPECS
V10:
2010 Santa Cruz V10 Medium (Rear Ti axle)
Boxxer Race *red decals
DHX5.0 350lb spring
Hope V2 Brakes, rear has Goodridge braided hose (silver)
Front Wheel: Mavic ex 729
Rear Wheel: Mavic ex 325
Superstar pedals (red)
Saint Hubs
Raceface Atlas bars, uncut 785mm (red)
Straitline 50mm direct mount stem
Straitline titanium bolt Seatclamp (red)
X9 shifter and mech
E-Thirteen LG1+
Superstar red pedals
Funn Hooka cranks
Hope Headset
Shimano Sait BB
Raceface Seatpost
WTB Thinline seat
ODI Rogue gripsMondraker Summum:
Large Mondraker Summum 2011 (Stolen without a shock)
Boxxer team
Mavic 721 – silver hope pro 2 hubs (was stolen with no cassette and rear axle so may not be on bolt as it is unlikley they will be able to find a replacement)
Raceface ride cranks
Burgtec MK3 pedals
E13 LG1+
Twenty6 stem
Formula The One in black (goodridge braided hoses are black, but there is a yellow goodridge marking things on hose)
Sram X9 mech and derailleur
Renthal chainring
Renthal bars
SDG Ibeam Bel airGiant Glory 2007:
Front wheel is yellow and orange/gold bars
Shimano saint brakes – the old type
Shimano saint cranks – old type
Big chunky Chromag direct mount stem – word chromag is written across the front of it in large
Superstar pedals
Big MRP bash guard
Funn white camo seatmeanzbeanzxFree MemberPosted 12 years agoI cant imagine how upset and pissed off you must be! I genuinly hope you get them back!!
theiving bastardS
widge34Free MemberPosted 12 years agoWill keep an eye out in Monmouth, where I live., but bikes have probably been moved on fast and broken down. Sorry to hear the news.
Dirt mag had a proto type giant glory pinched about a month ago. Scumbags.HermanShakeFree MemberPosted 12 years ago🙁
Stick something on Pinkbike if you haven’t already! So sorry to hear this.
giantx4Free MemberPosted 12 years agoThis is horrible..gutted for you…hope u have some joy sorting this out…hope bikes were insured?
camber1234Free MemberPosted 12 years agosorry to hear this – were they stolen from your car or your house/shed?
I recently had one of my bikes stolen and can only sympathize with you, hope you get them back.
spudnickFree MemberPosted 12 years agoSorry to hear about this. Stolen from the pedleabikeaway car park were they? Best of luck in getting them back
greenwood102Free MemberPosted 12 years agoCheers for the help guys. No we were followed home. Happens to alot of bikers who ride at pedalabikeaway. They were specialist though, they cut the seal on the window and just took out the whole window frame and then managed to pass to full bikes and one half bike through a tiny gap without making any sound at all. Yeah they were insured but id just spent building the summum about a week ago. Took about 2 months and it was my perfect build. I guess its just part of being a biker.
ChunkyMTBFree MemberPosted 12 years agoBummer. I hope karma catches up with them.
Set some auto searches up on ebay etc for the frame and bits.
pslingFree MemberPosted 12 years agoShit news 🙁
You’ve already covered the point I was going to make that there have been a number of cases where spotters have followed bikes from Pedalabikeaway (and other centres) and taken them later. Local police did manage to trace and deal with one gang from Cheltenham a while back but high spec MTBs are a valuable commodity these days and more & more scrotes are after them. Unfortunately a lot of riders also like bargain parts and don’t question where they come from.
So, two points: 1) be aware of vehicles following you from busy trail centres, 2) question yourself when buying ‘bargain’ bits.Hope the bikes are recovered and you get back out on the trails soon.
greenwood102Free MemberPosted 12 years agoCheers guys. Yeah just had the detective guy over. They left a big screwdriver and come neighbors might have CCTV. Im more keen to bust the thieves than get the bikes back so they dont go and take more bikes
organdonorFree MemberPosted 12 years agoSorry to hear this 😥
Hopefully the feds will have some joy with the cctvmatt1986Free MemberPosted 12 years agoMy genesis core got robbed from manc city centre on a busy summer morning they managed to use bolt croppers on Market street (the main street in manc) when hundreds of people were passing and no one did anything. The police were useless they said there was a gang doing it and upto 5 bikes were getting robbed a day but it wasn’t a crime that was a proirity for them. I never got mine back but had it insured but it wasn’t the point it was a new bike and if just got it set up the way I wanted it. It killed me to think some smack head will of been flogging it cheap in a pub. I now keep a close eye whenever I’m in manc centre cause if I could stop one other person going through what I did and kick the shit out of the person that would make me feel loads better.
There was some karma as I work the doors and was working a rough pub and was asked to chuck someone out for selling stolen gear (He was a local drugie) He threatened to come back the a knife and when he did come back later and went for his pocket he got his just rewards and it took a few of my frustrations away.
Sincerely hope you get your bikes back. The problem is they will only get a slap on the wrist it’s shocking.
chakapingFree MemberPosted 12 years agoThat’s rotten, good luck tracking them down.
When you say “no bar ends” on the V10 you mean end caps I guess? I haven’t seen many with bar ends on! 😉
Unfortunately a lot of riders also like bargain parts and don’t question where they come from.
Yeah, this is the bit that I find interesting. How do all these nicked bikes get back into use? How many buyers know they are hooky? There must be twice as many dodgy bikes somewhere like Bristol as there are legit ones.
wolfieFree MemberPosted 12 years agoReally hope you get them back. Its happened to me twice now, sends you crazy looking for them and playing over in your mind what damage you will do to them when you find them! Prob a good job you don’t usually find them…………thats if you’re a ‘retribution’ kind of skin like me!!
greenwood102Free MemberPosted 12 years agoYeah sorry was written in a bit of a frantic rush! Yeah well these guys were professionals, my v10 was so distinguishable. I reckon they get sold to someone who ships them out. Custom bikes go missing every day and just completely dissapear, surely they cant be in the UK?
Wolfie i know what you mean dude! My bike is probably locked up in some grotty shed, homesick 🙁 haha2orangey4crowsFull MemberPosted 12 years agoBest thing to do is to ensure the police have plenty of photos and details, and keep on at them. Considering what it must have cost you to build those, I’d also contact the local press and see if you can get some coverage there too.
My nicked bike was being ridden by a mountain biker who must have known it was stolen, so I think a few bikers are prepared to turn a blind eye. Thankfully mine was spotted by some good souls on here and an observant police officer.
Good luck!
greenwood102Free MemberPosted 12 years agoYeah police have a lot. Good idea with the paper dude cheerrs. Yeah i suspected that
bugcabFree MemberPosted 12 years agoRead elsewhere that a website “bike shed” summarises all bike for sale ads with pics. From eBay gumtree etc. Keep an eye on that and best of luck with recovery or retribution..
seanodavFree MemberPosted 12 years agoPut a small reward in the paper, 100 quid or so. It’s amazing what one scrote will do to another for few quid.
BushwackedFree MemberPosted 12 years agoShit news, I’ll post this up on a local site.
Slight hijacjk but relevant, I was in cheltenham’s Range store recently and was quite shocked to see them selling Boltcutters for £8 a piece and had about 15 in stock. Are they really thatpopular to deserve to have 15 in stock or are they expecting a seasonal rush?
greenwood102Free MemberPosted 12 years agoSean thing is is that they were probably local and if they find out that the bikes are being hunted down the’ll get rid of them very quickly, @Bushwacked, yeah funny that isnt it
tops5Free MemberPosted 12 years agoI’ve seen bolt cutters for sale at a nearby market with a board proclaiming “as seen on crimewatch” ! 😯
Good luck Greenwood
seanodavFree MemberPosted 12 years agoSean thing is is that they were probably local and if they find out that the bikes are being hunted down the’ll get rid of them very quickly
That could possibly work in your favour, a little pressure may lead to them making mistakes in shifting them.
dobiejessmoFree MemberPosted 12 years agoHope you get them back.But i am afraid there could be alot more dishonest mountain bikers around than you think!
I use to do moto-x back in 1989 was doing an area qualifier in Somerset AMCA alot of motocrossers had been stolen in Somerset so police did a raid on the meeting.Found 2 Hondas 1 suzuki and 1 Husky which they had on a stolen list.2 of bikes had there engine numbers filed of and the other 2 frame numbers filed of.These were local racers members of local clubs so they knew the bikes were nick,why would anyone filed of numbers inless there were nicked.Just goes to show people buy this stuff.
greenwood102Free MemberPosted 12 years agoYeah :/
A mate was telling me about how one of his friends was being robbed but caught the theif. It turned out it was one of his mate’s brothers. And his mate had been to his bike shed before so just told his brother exactly what to do.
If that makes sense… :L
Yeah thats really why i dont what to put it in the newspaper i need to be as stealth as possible
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