Greg Minnaar’s Carbon Nomad Stolen

Greg Minnaar’s team bike was stolen yesterday May 18th and was last seen near San Jose, California.

Seen one of these?

The full story is up on the Santa Cruz website – http://www.santacruzmtb.com/company/index.php?NewsID=0142

Bum!

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

Comments (15)

bombermanbomberman May 19, 2010 at 11:03 pm

Wasn’t me

shaggyshaggy May 19, 2010 at 11:10 pm

It wasn’t me. That reminds me of as song I did…

Rubbish news, hope there’s enough spares.

gatorgator May 19, 2010 at 11:36 pm

1 – What are Santa Cruz doing about security ?
2 – What are the thiefing ****ts doing – knicking something like that ?
3 – It’s CA = need for drug money rules all senses !

Hope they get it back – a thing of beauty, if you like that sort of thing 😉

mrnuttmrnutt May 20, 2010 at 12:25 am

bloody scousers 😀

DirtynapDirtynap May 20, 2010 at 6:46 am

Its only easy to spot as a complete bike. Which it wont be for long.

DirtynapDirtynap May 20, 2010 at 6:49 am

P.S. I hope they get it back and a trigger happy cop finds the thieving b******s.

repatriotrepatriot May 20, 2010 at 7:38 am

Is that triple crankset, how many Nomad riders have that set up?
Sure it will be easy to spot that colour scheme even in the USA!

iain1775iain1775 May 20, 2010 at 9:21 am

Im guessing he only put his lock through the front wheel
Elimentary mistake there Mr Minnaar 😉

ddmonkeyddmonkey May 20, 2010 at 9:49 am

If the theives are reading this please drop me a line as I’d really like that bike 😉

angryratioangryratio May 20, 2010 at 10:10 am

industrial espionage?

jimbjimb May 20, 2010 at 12:00 pm

They thieves just don’t think. Mate of mine (mugtree@mugtree.com, if anyone spots it) had this nicked a couple of weeks ago in Bristol. It’s not like it’s a common colour scheme, so it’ll be difficult to shift without being recoloured.

DirtynapDirtynap May 20, 2010 at 12:37 pm

A stripped camo nicolai, a rare bike indeed.

Theievs that are taking high end bikes are that stupid. Its the reason very very few turn up.

dickbartondickbarton May 20, 2010 at 2:45 pm

It’s a right ugly beast though, bet he sighed with releif when it was gone…

Not acceptable though, you just don’t steal – I hope they get caught and justice is served cold to them!

oliverd1981oliverd1981 May 20, 2010 at 7:47 pm

I why someone would want to buy a set of Apollo decals…

z1ppyz1ppy May 21, 2010 at 1:28 pm

you say this about being eaily identify-able, but STW had a very distinctive (urban camo IIRC) maverick stolen didn’t they…it was never heard of again.

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