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That eBay one is dodgy. Lowball BIN price, rubbish pics, 0 feedback.
I nearly had a similar thing happen to me a few years ago. New bike delivered by courier, driver brings box to front door and asks wife if she wants it taking round to the back door, she says no leave it there and I will bring it inside. She literally was 30 seconds putting her shoes on and when she goes to get it there’s this bloke in hi viz jacket with a big pair of gloves on walking down our path towards said box. He jumps over our hedge and starts banging next doors tree with his fist and says I’m just checking these trees for your neighbour. Which he wasn’t as I look after the old chap next door and I checked with him anyway. I checked my cctv and the couriers van had driven down our road to turn round, it’s a dead end, with the other guys van following 100 mtrs behind, as soon as the courier pulled up the other van pulled behind him.
Didn’t get a shot of his plates and my cameras were std definition at the time so didn’t get a great shot of him either.
This was in a quiet little village, and I could have had my bike nicked after less than a minute!
Really feel for you OP.
Only 60 miles away as well, mmmm.....
That said, on a second read it's a different model H30 / M30, cheaper model.
That's really crap OP.
It's a lovely looking bike and I shouldn't think there are many around. Definitely keep an eye out for some toe rag riding it round the local woods.
That ebay one looks like it's been on since before yesterday
Balls! Maybe where you live, but certainly not all of it!
Well we’ve had vans broken into in central Leeds and Ilkley in last 5.5 years; and on our street two attempted thefts from garages, a neighbours car nicked, another neighbour hose reel stollen (yes very random!) and catalytic converter stollen from another neighbours car in the last 1.5 years in what is considered a ‘nice’ bit of West Yorkshire near to Otley. Plus the last month I’ve had to report the most secure bike cage on campus being cut through, and an e-bike stollen. And during lockdown my several of my students computers stollen from a locked Uni building. So not just where I live! I like West Yorkshire a lot, but compared to the NE where I lived for 13 years before and never had an issue - theft is definitely ‘a thing’ by comparison.
OP I’ll keep an eye out through my local groups. Good luck
Stolen!😀
Stollen is something entirely different, and tasty.
Sorry to read this OP.
in a relatively low crime bit of West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is unfortunately a shit hole. I say this as someone who was born and spent the first 30 odd years of their life working and living in various bits of it. No longer live there and rarely go back. It’s sad because it does have some lovely areas (surrounded by shite ones).
Sounds to me like your neighbours require further investigating:
Motive
Means
Opportunity
as the police would say...
stolen
Thanks for correcting my dyslexia!!
Thats shit luck mate , thing is I do this all the time and live in a fairly rough area. I usually come home from a ride dump my bike in the back garden then go and run a bath . You just dont think it will happen to you.
Hope you get it back .
West Yorkshire is unfortunately a shit hole
Completely agree unfortunately. I have lived on the outskirts of Bradford for large parts of my life. I left there 3 yrs ago
Crime is just awful.
Had 3 bikes stolen from garages/sheds. One of them was definitely the result of being followed. Had stuff taken from my car overnight when I forgot to lock it. Police just said it’s routine for people to go round every car/house just checking for unlocked doors
Had a nice drugged up chap jump over the neighbours fence in to our garden saying 3 Asian men were chasing him and going to kill him (tbh he look truly scared for his life)
I always checked if anyone was watching when riding home, or driving home with the bikes on the roof, never left bikes in the garden unattended
Where I live now is just polar opposite, people leave doors unlocked, neighbour leaves his bikes in an open shed etc
November 13 2020 (Sheffield) I had a brand new Bronson delivered by FedEx who own TNT and 6 hours later a hole had been smashed through through the rear of my garage wall and the Bronson and a Canyon hardtail eMTB were taken, the thieves exited via the roller shutter door, which they left half open, also leaving behind a sledgehammer and crowbar.Police investigated and neither bike ever seen again.
Its known that the scrotes follow the courier vans around and either watch what's being dropped off or wait for the driver to leave the keys in then nick his van. DPD lost one near me like that just a few weeks ago.
I added a reward on my stolenbike link and got mine back
Fingers crossed
I’m always dead wary riding back to my house and have been known to ride past if I’ve been clocked by someone who has done a double take look at my bike.
I’ve rushed out of the house barefoot before now when I thought I’d left my bike in the back garden and noticed it suddenly wasn’t there ( I’d previously put it in the shed but forgot!) and a bird flying past had caught my eye… me processing it incorrectly as a toe rag thieving my bike!
If I do leave my bikes in the garden ever such as cleaning the shed out etc I always lock them up as it’s just not worth risking it. It’s so easy to get distracted and a 2 minute job turns into a 2 hr call etc!
a bird flying past had caught my eye… me processing it incorrectly as a toe rag thieving my bike!
Jesus! How big was the bird?
So anyway, update... I started this thread as a howl of anguish basically and would edit the title if I could.
Seems unlikely I'll get anything on insurance (garden stuff covered to £1k but not bikes; were it in a locked house I could claim up to £2.5k, but the back door was open as I was working on it...) Hard to see how to escalate frankly, though I'll probably have a go - given what we spend and never having claimed it can't be great business to make me go elsewhere.
I've logged the bike as nicked on find my bike, and with orbea in case any warranty stuff comes up. That's basically all there is to do on that front. Neighbours saw a couple of furtive looking blokes but what, realistically, can the police be expected to do to follow that up? Just need to hope it pops up somewhere.
Anyway, main stupid thing I'd do differently is insure right away.
Which I'll do as I've ordered the same bike again from Sigma Sports who've knocked a bit off just out of sympathy, basically, which is incredibly nice of them.
And I'll be saving money on the purple pedals I'll now be able to use...
And I’ll be saving money on the purple pedals I’ll now be able to use…
Every cloud and all!
Big up Sigma Sports!
Big up the boring things like adequate insurance.
were it in a locked house I could claim up to £2.5k, but the back door was open as I was working on it…
That's unusual. Cover under a home policy for theft is usually "open". You were on site, doors open, so it's not like you were hugely careless. Requirements for the house to be locked would be negated when you're at home anyway (fire risk) unless the area is dodgy as ****.
The requirement for a lock is usually for dodgy areas when you're not home.
Hope you enjoy it. I've got one, it's a great all-rounder.
Cover under a home policy for theft is usually “open”. You were on site, doors open,
The bike was in the garden. Letter of the policy they say means they won't pay for a peddle cycle. Anything else in the garden they would. Thank you Leeds building society.
It's all just a nightmare, insurance will just get out of it any way they can, i had two bikes nicked from my (attached) garage about 3 years ago, they broke into the garage, cut the locks and cycled off, we'd changed our insurance not long before and had the discussion on the bikes, as they were under 5k apiece we thought you didn't have to name them on the policy, but it's only when you get bikes nicked that you find all those rules aren't in your favour, 'garages' was one of them, having to name them if they were in the garage was another, so basically got nothing and went for bikmo insurance instead, always amazes me how many of the terms and conditions contradict each other in some policies!
As for the bikes, not seen or heard of anything about them since, police were not much use, but they're not resourced for this crap these days, didn't even get a visit, just a phone call and then weirdly correspondence on a court case they linked to the bikes, which were for a completely different crime (actually a page full of crimes!), good news is that those lads got found guilty and told not to be naughty again.
I doubt it was delivery driver, more likely people following his van- maybe even in another one.
Well-done on ordering another OP. That is a good move, I think I would have cried for another six months 😐
Well-done on ordering another OP.
Hurts to do it tbh, but was unanimous advice of the pub, and my wife. Not necessarily in that order of priority.
The bike was in the garden. Letter of the policy they say means they won’t pay for a peddle cycle. Anything else in the garden they would.
Yes, but that's not what you said or what I was referring to.
Anyway, I hope the replacement bike is everything you want it to be.
Anyway, I hope the replacement bike is everything you want it to be.
Be extra careful with this one - it's not unknown for thieves to come back a week or two later, knowing (or guessing) that there'll be a brand new insurance replacement waiting for them.
Sorry to hear of this. It’s a rotten feeling, especially if the bike has been taken from your own property.
Insurance companies all seem to do things slightly differently. In 2014 I had three bikes taken from my garage. As they were all under £2k, i didn’t need to name them and they were insured for theft at home and away from the home.
When we came to claim, the insurance company told us that although the bikes were in an attached garage, they classed this as an outhouse and not home, so we were only due £1500 for the lot. When my wife spoke to the insurance company, she was told that we would have got full value for the bikes had they just been left, unlocked, in the garden. Fortunately when it was pointed out to them how ridiculous the policy wording was, they relented and gave me the full value of each bike. Very stressful.