I wish my bloody nicked Yeti would turn up on Ebay!
Wht havnt they pulled the bike off ebay
Yeah SANCHO, - intriguing now you have said that as I couldn't quite see it myself but who knows.
If your perhaps using pinkbike/bikeradar/ebay, your asking for 3 or 4/10 items being stolen or mucked around by seller.
So come on then, fess up, who are the STW.COM bike thieves who apprently frequent here???
Who knows? Could be people who've been on here for years. You'd probably trust someone who posts on the forum regularly, not just the classifieds, wouldn't you? Great way to gain someone's trust.
Some lucky bidder is about to win your bike in 45mins for the princely sum of £820.
Glad you got it back.
Has the auction not been pulled? WTF? So some poor sod could end up paying this ****er money, then have all the hassle of trying to get it back again?
So the crime of 'obtaining money by false pretences' is about to be allowed by Ebay? FFS....
glad you got your bike back! i had my orange 5 nicked a few month back, police did'nt help one bit! did all my own investigating and found out who nicked it, there were a few of them involved but the main lad had a garage full of bikes and bike parts, i even managed to find some cctv footage of the little scrote taking it out the next morning, i told the police this and asked if they'd go up to his house, they told me they thought it was the lad i mentioned and they'd go up, they never did, told me they did'nt have enough officers out, so i was a bit pissed off with them, scared this lad would end up selling it on so i told police id wait outside his house untill they got there, the cheeky bastards told me if i get involved they'd come and arrest me!!!!! thought they didnt have enough officers out!!! so i named and shamed them all on here with there addresses and got the bike back myself with the help of some good friends 😉 anyway the police rang me a week later asking if i'd got my bike back, told them i had, and now they want to question me on how i got it back!! i told them with a little gentle persuation! 😀 glad the police helped you in this case but normally they're ****ing useless!! this guy needs a good beating, he's obviuosly been doing a lot of it by the looks of it!! 👿
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Elfinsafety - Member
Has the auction not been pulled? WTF? So some poor sod could end up paying this ****er money, then have all the hassle of trying to get it back again?
So the crime of 'obtaining money by false pretences' is about to be allowed by Ebay? FFS....
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yeh, you need to bid above him to make sure no poor ****er gives this scrote anymore!!
😯 😆
hi ton, i know! but i know how it feels to have yer bike nicked! so do you bgoss!! 🙄
+1 shaggmiester. er, someone is going to win this....
someone top my £100,000 please
i tried to bid a million.............. 😆
50k 😀 good work
Brilliant!
superb!
Best e-bay aution I ever saw!!
that was one expensive bike, 50,000 and still didnt get it, damn!!! 😆
who won it............... ❓
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
Got a link to the Ebay auction?
But, but:[b] "Excellent item, great ebayer to deal with, very honest and accurate."[/b]
😯
Result! It really was Friday the 13th for someone.. 😆
feedback is littered with bikes and components surely ebay must be able to track/log private sellers items? Big brother I know
but it looks suspicious
and it was...
The 'useless' Police also recovered a Lapierre Race 500 and a Trek Fuel which have been returned to their respective owners and are looking to recover more of the sold ones.
was this in leeds.
was my big black karate monkey there????
" dt5714 - Member
The 'useless' Police also recovered a Lapierre Race 500 and a Trek Fuel which have been returned to their respective owners and are looking to recover more of the sold ones. "
dt, you sound like you might be a copper, am i right?
Shag
I am, but know you got a sh1t service from Huddersfield Coppers when yours went, which pissed me off as I live in Hudds. Leeds has had a hammering with bike thefts and there needs to be someway of better recording stolen bike nationwide as the bikes that are being targeted are worth more than a lot of the cars on the road. But we need to start helping ourselves some riders don't even know their frame number which doesn't help when trying to find/recover.
The 'useless' Police
Prevention is better than Cure...
dt5714
mate
gumtree........leeds, search for bikes
same house same bloke more bikes than halfords
house is near middleton park woods.
think he may have my surly......just bideing my time... 😉
http://leeds.gumtree.com/leeds/61/63910361.html
surely worth a vist fron the local plod.
Sorry, but the reality is that some people will take advantage of a situation for their own ends, without much thought for those they steal from.
What sad reading that makes if it is true that other so called mtb'ers steal from other (read=proper) mtb'ers.
That simply ''SUCKS'' feeling is without a shadow of a doubt, the most gutting feeling ever when you have found a bike which belongs to yourself stolen and feeling completely useless.
BUT, - now everyone is online pretty much, there are more opportunities to spot the odd bike out syndrome which becomes increasingly popular in cities and towns alike.
SHAME ON THE ASS FLUFF THAT STOLE THIS YETI and all the other's.
Flame thrower whilst getting razzed up on whiskey and spuing it to fuel the fire of bike thieves being burnt at dusk is what's needed here to sh#t them up.
But in all serious, it boils my piss their actual attitude of stealing bikes, begs belief.
😡
Though having said that, complete result by the sounds of things.
Keep us updated won't you on how he's charged etc.
😀 for you.
Ton is this the same guy
http://leeds.sheryna.co.uk/Leeds-Sport-Outdoor-Stuff-MARIN-BOLINAS-RIDGE-2010-MARIN-PERFORMANCE-SERIES-BIKE-CALIFORNIA-100
Ed, it is mate..............been watching him since mine was nicked.
what do you think??
Can you call me tomorrow and talk about it at work, I have an idea
i am away on holiday tomorrow for a week. i will ring you when i am back.
belgianbob - MemberTop news!
Is it legal yet to pull the toenails off bike thieves?
Fingers . . . bolt croppers . . . job done! 😈
Great to hear you got your bike back ben 😀
To the gallows with the him , GOD WILLS IT! 😈
Seriously though well done to the rozzers hope he gets a doin in the showers of some scary prison.....highly unlikely.
Glad you got your YETI back though...been there myself and not seen the steed back home where it belongs. 
"front suspention forks with hard and soft switch on handle bars" 😆
Elfinsafety - Member
The 'useless' Police
Prevention is better than Cure...
Don't keep thousands of pounds stored in a shed in the garden or a garage? Would people keep their ipad/Macs and piles of cash in these garages? No.
My bikes always live in the house. They'd have to get past a clawhammer if they decided to enter the house at night.
I totally agree with Hora above ^.
All these kids leaving their 3500grand dh bikes in a shed that's barely locked then putting in a claim with there parents insurance underwriters is beyond silly behaviour to me.
Also worth noting is that I see these adverts posted up on stolen bikes topics/threads on different forums.
They were asking for it most of the time, of course no-one actually asks to have their bike nicked but to put it on display in town, to then lcok using a yale on a wooden shed without further protection is a FFS scenario in my books.
My bikes currently live in the house but i'm running out of space.
Looking into one of those steel security sheds & bolting that to the floor of the garage. Best solution i can come up with.
Not cheap, but whats a £500 shed when you've 5K of bikes?
Onceinalifetime and Hora: Nail. Squarely on head.
those steel security sheds
Just because thieves never learnt to read and write properly at school doesn't make them completely thick. Such shed SCREAM that you have something in there thats worth something.
I've always made room in my house or flats- regardless of space. If you want to keep it don't take a chance.
Would you leave your car on display in the back of your car whilst you are out of sight of it? Would you leave your satnav on the passenger seat and disapear into the pub after a ride etc?
Take responsibility for your actions.
Insurance isn't a catchnet. Your premium increases when you put a claim in.
When a bike is stolen from inside someones locked/secured house or office- then yes I feel sorry.
Everything else I think you contributed to the crime and money in the pocket/reward for the criminal act.
I would never leave my full suss [u]ANYWHERE[/u]. I own a motorbike lock and use it on my £100 fixie commuter only- even then someones had a go at it.
Hora, sorry but that a load of shite.
I have mates who have taken quite a lot of security precautions for bikes stored in outbuildings, sheds and garages.
Breaking into most houses would be much easier than breaking into their sheds.
You really don't get the mindset do you? Taking bolt cutters into an outshed or actually breaking into a house with the risk of an alarm going off, confronting someone who could be bigger than you, finding items of value, the risk of a phone call to 999 etc etc.
There is no one in a shed or garage to wake up.
You could also have the real risk of coming out with nothing if you break into a house- can you carry a bike through a tight-aperture window quietly? The front or backdoor might be locked and if you kick it in- the noise may result in a 999 call.
If you see someone unloading a bike and wheeling towards their house and you scope the area out and realise theres a shed.....
Which would you rather break into?
