I became that statistic last night. Staying in my van at a popular MTB campsite with my 10yr old. The campsite does have a lock up for bikes but I didn't have the code to hand, stayed there loads of times before and felt pretty complacent about it, thought "nah it'll be fine." Strapped the bikes onto the bike rack and went to bed. Heard some knocks around 4am, actually opened the door and poked my head out but couldn't see anything odd going on.Â
Camp manager knocked on about 8:30 to let me know there'd been thefts and my bike had gone. My daughter's was still there, maybe they had a conscience and chose not to steal a childs bike!?
Anyway, he showed me the CCTV and there were 5 lads, just wandered around, tried mine then wandered off, got another guys (locked to picnic bench with 4 locks which they cut through) then came back and took mine. Looked to be young, my daughter said "he's the same size as me" about one of them!
Apparently they were there a couple of nights before and took a pair of yeti's worth 15k.
Spoke to a local bike shop and they said it happens a lot, big event in town, gang drivers on from local city knowing there'll be stuff around.Â
Not after sympathy, my own stupid fault, plenty opportunity to prevent it which I didn't take. So just a reminder to be vigilant, especially if your bike is outside!Â
Don't want to name the campsite specifically as it's not his fault and he's worried about it affecting business. Like I say, been there loads of times and will definitely go back (once I've managed to fork out for a new bike!!)
Bike was black specialized levo sl with pink dmr deathgrips.
