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Gary - Those 224s do look a bit dodgy, but the fact that the frame sizes are included and there's no absolute howlers in the descriptions make me think they're probably genuine too.
The graffiti behind one of them does give a bad impression, as does this bit...
.please contact like on 0703975637.
the police, it seems, are not interested in solving my crime 🙁
Thanks for the E Mail
I am sure you are correct, however this is not something we can actively pursue.
The crime of rubbish spelling? 🙄
I wouldn't be too harsh on the police. You need to bear in mind that they are kept pretty busy with murders, robberies, traffic offences, shoplifting, drunks, drug dealers and theft of things that aren't bikes too...
how about this on gumtree - i'm after one for my mate but i can't bring myself to buy this because surely there's no way it's legit...
"Declan" has been selling high end bikes on gumtree for years - If you search his name/mobile it should through up loads of results
i gently suggested that it might be worth a look, and so she forwarded it on to another department. just got an email back:
this was passed to me and I've passed it to Crime Squad officers to look at.Definitely looks suspicious to me - I had a quick search on Ilumu.com & google of the phone number & it comes up several times on Gumtree with different names / bikes so thanks for that.
Identifying bikes is often difficult. Some bikes offered locally on gumtree had been stolen down in Bristol!
Thanks for the email. I'll let you know if there's any results.
fingers crossed 🙂
interesting that he mentions bristol as a place of numerous thefts.
Thanks to everyone who contacted me. I had a dozen or more emails about the bike from various members of the mountain bike community within 1hr of the bike being listed on ebay. The power of the community eh! (and ill be honest I didn't even have an account on here then!)
The Slopestyle is now back! (well almost, the rozzers still have it, but its in safe hands)
Massive thanks to Pete (freeform5spot), mamadirt (for posting) and timbercome, but particularly Pete who did the dirty dealing with the little git and provided all the details that led to bikes recovery and the arresting of the two culprits.
One learning, worth checking your insurance, as not sure what was worse, finding the bikes nicked, or discovering that insurance company would only pay 1k max per claim (yep 1k for 6k worth of bikes) for anything stolen from the garden.
Pete, a jiffy full of hens teeth is on its way to you.
Thanks again all.
Lets bust some more of the little sh*ts
Chris.
Glad this one's got a happy ending Chris 😀
Chris - glad it worked out! Don't want to sell it do you??
An Update...
Two of the guys got done in court, another guy pleaded not guilty! The police only really perused it because a) it was a pretty expensive bit of kit and b) I (without the help from the guys on here) gave the rozzers the guys mobile, name and home address! If only all crims were this stupid.
Only thing is I have to wait until after 1st Oct to get the Intense back.
Mythic still missing (probably for good), but obviously pretty stoked the Intense should be back soon, shame its nearly winter now!
C.
hurray!
lol...good news...2 of my bikes got nicked and the police belive them to be shipped down south so if ur in the south key an eye open for a g-spot with green bars and a blue vp-free with white forks and handlebars and a hadley rear wheel...cheers
nice one mate!
supreised its taken so chuffing long to get your ride back though!
Big thumbs up to Mamadirt for getting things moving on the Intense. Well done, and glad someones got a bike back 😀
Theres another nicked Slopestyle out there if peeps could keep alookout? Friend has his nicked in Aberdeen along with a small Chameleon.