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Gutted, 🙁
Had it locked up outside the main shopping centre, two security cameras, shopping centre security patrolling and on a very busy high street for both traffic and pedestrians and it still gets stolen.
Taken between 2pm & 8pm last night. Been repoted to the security, and the police but I don't hold out much hope.
I've never seen another in the town in the year and a half I have owned it so if someone does spot one, please let me know. Also I still have the saddle bar/post so if anyone spots one with one that does't match the rest of the bike, then theres a very good chance it's mine.
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Gutted indeed. I got my road bike nicked today from outside the hospital where I work. Sorry dude.
Now what productive thing can I do with all this rage?????
hmm. bad luck. what lock were you using and what was it locked to?
i can't tell the spec from that picture however, and what bits do you have fitted that differ from standard?
Thanks for the replies.
Bike was standard spec for that model, I hadn't made any upgrades.
It was locked using a £20 cable key lock from Halfords, pretty thick, one i wouldnt have imagined someone cutting though in broad daylight outside a busy shopping centre. Really annoyed with myself though as I normally lock it with two, that one as well as my d-lock kryptonite one. I didn't take it yesterday, it was a warm day and I didn't fancy wearing a backpack carrying just a heavy lock... paid the price for that. It was locked to a bike post, one where both ends loop into the ground.
Scummy bastards... I work hard to buy a bike like that, some thieving little turd just steals one. No morals.
Aw juice I'm gutted for you. Reason I posted though isn't helpful. I'm just taken aback by your trust in a £20 cable lock for 6 hours. Granted you worked hard for that steed, and also that kryptonite lock.
Hope you get it back dude
Bad luck mate- will keep my eyes open.
Exeter has been suffering a bit of a bike crime wave recently, as ever we're low on the police's priorities.
'Second hand' bikes have been know to turn up at Exeter Cycles- worth keeping an eye out there.
Wake up call for me too- I use that same lock...
@ International Richard, yes mate, stupid I know. Something I never would have done when I first bought the bike, but 15 months or so down the line I just became a little complacent. Never again. Sad state of affairs though isn't it when you have to think about doub;e locking a bike to [i]try[/i] and stop scum from stealing it.
@ eviljoe, Use two locks is my best advice, a D-Lock is a must in my opinion.
Should listen to my own advice! On the look out for a new bike now as hold no hope getting it back via the police. Doubt it's even in Exeter anymore as it goes, far to recognisable in a small(ish) town.
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That sucks! I'll keep my eyes peeled for you.
Always worth taking a trip around the dodgier areas too, when my GF had hers stolen from inside the church in heavitree (yes I know, stolen from a church!) I found it a few hours later propped up against a garden fence in a road just off rifford road.