At some point last night, in the Crookes area of Sheffield, thieves broke into Abigales boyfriends house and stole three bikes and a laptop. They were the pride and joy of three students studying in the city.
Medium Specialized Stumpjumper Evo 2012
Black and white with white Pikes
Large Specialized Enduro 29er 2016
Black with Hopetech wheels
18.5" Calibre Bossnut V2.
Red with Renthal bars
The thee lads are all part of the University Cycle Club.
As you can imagine they are gutted.
Will try and get some photos later.
Please keep an eye out for them.
That’s rubbish!I’ll keep an eye out in Broomhill.
sharkattack, i think, lives in sheffield and works in a local bike shop. Might be worth contacting him to get the word out to sheffield bikers.
Rubbish news. Will keep an eye out in hillsborough
There is a "Yorkshire Cycling Sales" facebook group. Might be worth putting this on there.
******s. I'm in Sheffield too - will keep an eye out.
Tracey - sorry to hear that - that's really bad news.
Bike theft sadly seems to be endemic (boarding on pandemic!) in North West Sheffield at the moment - I guess the downside of the rise in popularity of Sheffield's cycling scene is that the local low life scum see it as rich-pickings ... especially at this time of year.
Plus there is a seemingly a large market of people willing to purchase high-end bikes and components without too much concern about 'provenance'.
Supply and demand ...
These aren't substance abusers nicking stuff and selling it dirt cheap for a quick fix. I reckon this is an organised group of well-prepared, tooled-up thieves with a van hitting pre-selected targets.
Have South Yorkshire Police attended the scene?
My understanding is that they no longer attend thefts that take place in garages or outbuildings. Not sure about when it's a house. I'd be interested to know as apparently a number of police forces were said to be no longer attending house burglary incidents.
Sadly student housing is a target as they can get multiples of everything like bikes and laptops etc.
Anybody reading this who has their bike secured (either indoors or outdoors) with with a 9mm steel 'Sold Secure' lock, then forget it.
Get a 16mm Pragmasis 'Protector' Chain & Squire lock.
I'll keep my eyes open for the lads' bikes.
Also - genuine question here - does the sharing of the stolen bikes on social media like Facebook actually do any good? or does it only advertise the theft and make it easy to trace the owners via their public profile?
where abouts in crookes - ours were nicked a few months back and a lad from work was hit twice!. Thieving shits!
