Posting for a mate who had the above stolen on Tuesday night. Taken from an outbuilding along with an old road bike.
Specialized S Works Carbon Epic - 2007 frame in black and red. White Magura Durin forks, XTR M970 drivetrain with Magura Marta brakes.
Giant Trance X4 Grey - standard apart from 2004 fox float forks.
Reward available for safe return.
I'm looking for an Epic and saw this on Gumtree, but then saw this post too:
http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/specialized-s-works-epic-2008-mountain-bike/110057287
Eurodave, you legend! I'm 99.99% sure that's it. This forum never ceases to amaze me. Watch this space.
Reward for eurodave if it turns out good!
If you think that's it, I suggest you get this thread deleted ASAP to avoid alerting the poster of the ad.
Poster has a few bikes for sale by the looks
Gotta be it. It's a 2007, not 2008, description well wide of the mark, unusual spec etc
What do I win?!
It's been a while, but I've got an update on this and I'm pleased to say it's a happy ending. Eurodave - the owner of the bike in question would like to get in touch if possible so if you can supply some form of contact that would be great?
So the bike on Gumtree was indeed the missing bike. The police were initially unable to respond in time so owner and a mate arranged to see the bike posing as prospective buyers. They were given the runaround and when they evetually got hold of the guy he told them it had been sold so no longer available. So potentially the end of the trail.....
The matter was pursued with the police, and the guy invovled in selling the bike/bikes on Gumtree was picked up by the police but unfortunately no sign of the bike. So another dead end...Until....This week the bike appeared on Ebay, now in Luton. So the owner informed the police and proceeded to bid on it in order to win it at which point hopefully the police would be able to 'pick it up' on his behalf. I'm pleased to say that today that's exactly what happened! and bike and owner were re-united, amazingly.
One important detail was that by chance the owner had pics of the frame number so they could positively identify the bike as his, without this he might have struggled. A lesson to us all I reckon! It also seems that the bloke who ended up with it bought it innocently on Gumtree and is now out of pocket to the tune of £900 and also £300 for a fork service he paid for.
Anyway, a great story and testament to the power of forums like this.