One of my local bike shops was broken into over the weekend (Clive Mitchell Cycles - Summercourt, Cornwall) and had a shed-load of bikes nabbed, so please keep an eye out for any of the following cheap bikes being sold (of course, the thieving scum will no doubt have broken them down for parts but you never know!):
Specialized Stumpjumper Expert Carbon, Large. 2019 model.
Specialized Stumpjumper Comp Carbon, Large. 2019 model.
Specialized Stumpjumper Comp alloy, Medium, Black 2019 model.
Specialized Enduro Comp 650b, Medium Black. 2018 model.
Specialized Camber Expert Carbon 29er Large Black. 2018 model.
Specialized Turbo Levo HT 29er Gents. Large Blue/Red. 2019 model.
Specialized Turbo Levo HT 6Fattie, Medium Grey 2018 model.
Specialized Turbo Levo FSR 6Fattie, Large Black/Blue 2018 model.
Specialized Turbo Levo FSR 6Fattie Comp, Medium Silver/Black 2018 model.
Specialized Turbo Levo FSR 6Fattie Comp Carbon, Medium Black/Blue 2018 model.
Specialized Kenevo FSR Comp 6Fattie. Medium Blue/Grey 2019 model.
CUBE Reaction Hybrid Pro 400, 18” Black, 2018 model.
CUBE Reaction Hybrid SL500, 18” Blue 2018 model.
CUBE Stereo Pro 120 Hybrid, 18” Red/Black 2018 model.
CUBE Stereo Pro 140 Hybrid 20” Blue 2018 model.
It is rife at the moment.
JE James Rotherham got hit again last night, went for some E -bikes this time.
One in Milton Keynes too
That Milton Keynes one is crazy! We definitely need something more we can do as a community.
The austerity chickens are coming home to roost.Just you wait till the roll out of Universal credit.Your in for a hell of a shock.
why on earth was that MK burglar using a hook?
I'm guessing so he didn't have to go inside the building and get wet. That or something to do with body temp being much more likely to trigger the burglar alarm PIRs.
why on earth was that MK burglar using a hook?
I would assume because they knew where the Camera was and he could stay in one place and reach the bikes he wanted.
Wow, that's a lot of bikes nabbed in one weekend 🙁
They must be getting shipped out of the country like the high end cars. Just can't see how they are going to shift these for the money they are worth on the few available channels for selling bikes. Genuinely starting to put me off biking, the thought of someone breaking into my house for a push bike. Bikes are just too expensive now and an easy target. Hope the thieving bastards get cancer.
Was thinking where do they all go, been lots of high value high volume of bikes stolen over the last few years.with no sign ever again.
So where do they go the documents have to monetise them and gumtree or cash converters is not going to happen.
So which market would they go to?
Was thinking where do they all go, been lots of high value high volume of bikes stolen over the last few <span class="skimlinks-unlinked">years.with</span> no sign ever again.
So where do they go the documents have to monetise them and gumtree or cash converters is not going to happen.
So which market would they go to?
I had similar thoughts a while ago and came to the conclusion that there are plenty of online and offline sales avenues, and also plenty of people happy to ignore any suspicions regarding provenance when faced with a suspiciously good deal. Remember that the seller doesn't have to worry about 'real' market value when the item is stolen.
Bastards. Shipping overseas is the obvious thing if they're bright.
Same thing happens with plant. If you can knick a new JCB, disable the tracking and get it in a container you can have it out of the country in a couple of hours. Same principle as "county lines" - confuse the jurisdiction and you've got less chance of being caught,
In my industry, my "favourite" is the Standard Bank SA attack. Fraudsters compromised the Standard Bank system to approve all transactions for certain cards. In 3 hours in the middle of the night non Japanese mules withdrew USD 13 million from 7-Eleven ATMs in Japan. 3 jurisdictions and all done before anyone knew something was wrong.
Not sure if the link works - but that's rapid thievery.
it was reported over here in Belgium of a very similar bike shop theft (hooked from a skylight)
The thieves knew what they were targeting and 'fished' out the better models.
Bikes all turned up at a bike shop in Romania, mostly covered in dirt where the thieves had tried to make them look like second hand bikes in case they were stopped on the way back..
I gotta agree that they must have an out of country buyer lined-up.
I was following this on FB last night... the numbers of very high end bikes stolen is staggering and devious ways aside they can't possibly hope to shift all of them here without getting caught out.
This has been carried out more or less UK wide in what I'd grudgingly say is a very professional manner... Itit doesn't seem likely they don't have an out of UK plan in place.
Be honest though, if someone put a pair of "almost new" 36's on the classifieds for £450 or so, no one would bat an eyelid. I suppose Fox UK might check the serial number if they ever get serviced but even if they do that's potentially years away.
£450 before you've even sold the rest of the bits which almost certainly don't have logged serial numbers on ebay is a good return for a nights work and you can just bin the frames or ebay them in a few months/years when they're a bit more common secondhand.
Friend of a friend recovered his road bike years later when it came up on ebay, the seller had a barn full of stolen high end bikes, just waiting a few years for the heat to go away and selling them, even with 2+ years depreciation bikes are still a lot of money.
Mind you I grew up in the Midlands in the 80s before "austerity" was a thing and everyone lived hand to mouth.
We all knew that if you left anything unlocked it would be lifted
I had a wheel stolen from my first car and then the rear light lenses were stolen!
Where I lived even fruit and veg shops had solid steel shutters just to prevent the glass being smashed
When I was a PC I arrested, OAPS stealing chickens from Tesco's and neighbours burgling each other, I even caught a thief while on foot patrol when I saw him trying to pry open a cash register he had just stoen from a chip shop!!!
At the very least the shop should have something like this:
So I have zero sympathy for the bike shop owner with £250K of stock proected by a peice of glass.
Yes quite, on one hand it’s a shame we live in a day and age where folk do this but on the other hand the owner should be aware of the potential fir this to have happened.
therefore shutters at the cery least otherwise I’m wondering how the f did he get insurance for that stock/shop before burglary???
Not isolated to south of the border. Our lbs was done over on Sunday. Strangely enough, they've just had a mini demo event, which coincidentally, the last robbery at their shop followed the annual demo weekend.
Some scumbags are obviously using the events to recce the scene. 😠😡😠