[Closed] STOLEN LAST NIGHT: 4 bikes + wheels + spares

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if you were dropped off first i'd be moving anything of value from inside your shed, SHARPISH!!!! 😯

Didn't find out till I was at work sadly, I'll be bringing them in tonight when I get home!! 😡

Gutted for you mate, my orange handjob got stolen last month. Insured?

M&S insurance, time to find out how good they are! Don't fancy his premium next year though! 😕

sorry to hear about the loss of the bikes but i would be interested to know how he gats on with m & s as i am insured with them and like you say it's time to see how good they are!

No alarm on the garage?

B*stards!

Barstewards indeed!

Garage alarmed, but not well enough seemingly 🙁

M&S ok so far apparently, whatever that means!

Am I the only person to read this and shake my head? 12k worth of easily transported, easily sold on, essentially untraceable kit in a garage...
Plus a travelling advert as to its location?
I'm sympathetic to the loss, but can't understand the way its made so easy...

Afraid there isn't much you can do about it other than be insured and alarm/lock them up which is what the chap sounds like he did.

I'd love to have the bikes inside but the missus won't stand for it....

You've lost me a bit crikey, are you suggesting that having bikes on roof racks etc is a bad idea? What do you suggest instead? 20 miles of avoidance driving to ensure no-one follows you home?

I've no answers, but driving about with expensive bikes on a roof rack, especially travelling back from a known biking spot without any kind of precaution?

Can't really be sensible, can it?

I'm more shocked that people keep such easily nicked kit in garages, alarmed or not. I wouldn't leave 4 suitcases containing £3000 in my garage, I think people really, really need to start thinking about bikes in a different way. They are valuable items, and that cost is easily converted into cash via on-line or local sales.

Dunno what the answer is, and as I say, i'm sympathetic regarding the theft, but it will happen again and again until people learn to do things differently.

Houses are full of easily shiftable, expensive items, but we don't do anything special with those things (generally).

Sadly - the answer would seem to be don't have anything nice cos some scrote will nick it. Can't see what else you could really do with bikes except for keep them in a locked/alarmed garage, locked to something immovable. Keeping them in the house is, in most cases, just not practical.

The 2 bikes we came home with last night were so covered in sh*t that you couldn't tell what they were TBH! And they were by far the cheapest of the bunch.

I wouldn't leave 4 suitcases containing £3000 in my garage

Would you leave a car parked in the street? By your logic it's no different.

c**ts.
some right kit gone there,hope it turns up.

Am speaking with an engineering company to make up a marking device for bike hardware. Something along the lines of a nut cracker that can impress your postcode into aluminium in a very small ie 2mm circular stamp.
You would need a keen eye to spot it , and alot of parts could be 'impressed'.- bars, mechs, shifters, seat posts , saddles, stem, forks etc.
Steel parts would be harder, but maybe not impossible. Its only going to etch the surface, in an out of the way spot. It will not stop theiving sh1tbags from stealing what you have worked hard for, but will make identifying them an awful lot easier. This could also lead to prosecution , or recovery of more stolen items .
Early days yet , and maybe a non starter ,but might lead somewhere.

I'd certainly buy one. Pretty much every morning I wake up to wonder if tonight is the night my sheds robbed. So far - touch wood - I've been ok.

?I've heard alot more about shed thefts in the last few months.

Of course its different! Cars have security built in, do bikes?
Stamping stuff doesn't make them harder to steal.
Given the number of bike thefts, its clear that there is a thriving market for stolen stuff, and highly likely that some people on here are buying and using stuff that hasn't been obtained legitimately.
Until people take this seriously, threads like this will continue, and the longer it goes on, the more the market becomes established. Bike insurance will rapidly become unaffordable too.

This is shit hope he gets it sorted out ok.

I certainly agree with your last point crikey, someone is buying all this knock off gear- I sincerely hope it's no-one here, but given the size of the membership base, I guess it's almost guaranteed that one of us has bought stolen gear, knowingly or otherwise. 😥

singletrackmind - what happens when you want to sell the gear you've marked?

Ok then . I wont bother . So when something goes walkies, and it appears on gumtree you prove its your set of DT forks or Fulcrum wheels.
So you tell plod where you embossed the wheels ( say next to valve hole under the rim tape ) he takes a good look in there and oooh look a postcode.

Still a shocker when stuff gets nicked. Some ****tard nicked my sledge ,and my Raleigh Record sprint back in the day.

M&S were great with me but be sure you have all receipts.

I have just had an unfortunate and large claim too, I am dreading next years premium, although as a risk business my risk is now lower with all the extra security!

I can't see M&S keeping the same policy wording next year. Read carefully.

That's awful news about the bikes getting stolen.

What about the thing that the police are trialling - where they put invisible ink on your bike? It probably wouldn't extend to other components as well as the stamp, but it would be far easier to spot (wave a UV light over the bike).

[i]What about the thing that the police are trialling - where they put invisible ink on your bike?[/i]

It doesn't tend to last very long on MTBs. Subjecting it to mud, water, dust and cleaning products means it generally disappears within a few months.

All these security markings are good ideas, but all have been tried before. Car radios used to be a target, and coding supposedly used as a security measure... but if a radio is easy to nick, it doesn't matter; the theif can just chuck it and steal another.
The point is to avoid the theft, not close the stable door after the horse is gone...

I'm not having a go at those who lose bikes; its awful, and people don't appreciate how much personal loss is involved, but we, us, you, have to makeit harder, so. think about being followed, especially from local bike places, especially at weekends, and for ****s sake, think about leaving bikes that would cumulatively buy a car in garages...

singletrackmind - it wasn't meant to sound arsey, it was a genuine question. I agree some means of semi/permanently marking gear is a great idea, but I could imagine it putting people off buying bikes/gear that were marked in such a way. Maybe I'm wrong! 🙂

i hate hearing this, i'm just getting round to put the finishing touches to my garage before i move the bikes and gear out of the 3rd bedroom and in to the garage, gona put a seperate alarm on eventually, i'm having a bar made for across the steel back door tomorow and have already put bolt and dead locks on the up and over, steel bars on the window, when i put the concrete down for the base i put 2 beasty anchors in flush.

still worry though

Hi all , i'm the one who had the gear swiped , I'm proper gutted . I don't know what the answer is, the garage was locked the bikes were chained up inside the up and over door was pulled of its hinges (hence no alarm going off) , you have to think that if i'd heard the alarm and ran out in fury would i be in the papers after been stabbed etc , maybe the next time they'll stop me in the car and mug me ? who knows . Interesting that they left my carbon framed record equiped road bike dangling untouched , which makes me think i've been targeted specifically for the mtbs - so what ends would they stop? Sad to think that someone will buy them knowing they're nicked .

But it won't put me off riding and I'll be out again soon enjoying myself .

Gutted for you mate 😥

Gutted for you but I guess its sort of the way the world works.

Buy some cheaper bikes next time!

59ttp - what an odd thing to say!

Yeah probably.

No offence intended or anything mind, hope you get your bikes back.

Really saddened to read of your loss. Hope the thieving scum suffer a slow painfull death real soon.

Bizarre, they did that to me too, left the steel, but expensive, road bikes, took the mtb and wifes carbon mtb. I doubt targeted, there's a bigger s/hand market for mtb's?

Two things spring to mind.

Sorry for your losses it's a horrible feeling.

Loads of new bike stuff on the way though, every cloud eh!

I repeat B*sterds!

GOD I HATE BIKE THIEVES!

I once had my garage broken into when I had my pride and joy in it.... Pacific 7 comp with Suntour XC comp Xpress on it and Answer Accutrax forks (yellow ones)....

Turns out it was one of my mates and his older brothers gang!!!!!! They tried to sell it to a copper for £50.....

I was 16 at the time... Got my bike back and beat the sh*t out of the tw*t and 2 of his buddies.

Sorry no help but I still feel the pain everytime I hear someones bike has been nicked by some lazy gutless piece of shite who doesnt have the b*llocks to earn the nice things.

BA*sterds

and relax.

Quick update - looks like the Hope wheels have been found at a local scrotes house. However, as Carbone can't prove they're his (despite describing them perfectly to a PC on the phone, even down to the colour/brand of the rim tape, the tyres attached to the wheels and the brand/colour of the QRs), he won't get them back (yet).