a giant acid and a gt idrive await their owners too
poor bastards 😉
Good work Mr Jedi.
dp
11th commandment- thou shalt not get away with it
If you're getting all biblical then there is a line in "Revelations" that says
[i]"And Lo, the angry Jedi did mighty deeds and did smite the scroats both spilling their blood and recovering cycles. Then it came to pass that the Coyote and the Jedi met and truly did the Jedi want for beer no more."[/i]
Nice one Tony, you will pass into Legend,
lol @ coyote 🙂
Anyone see potential for a job as a bike detective?!
Great news Well done!
Next week's Mercury "BIKE THIEVES IN ARREST SHOCKER!"
I bet the C***s are gutted 😈 😆
i got the best job in the world 🙂
😀
woohoo just come in from partying empty handed 😕 ahahaha so stoked for you jedi, also if they got a 2006 cannondale chase send them my way! have you got any more ebay addresses other than wiskeylover as i'm gonna keep them under my saved sellers and hopefully play games.
Fantastic news
how much did they crap themselves when they realised they'd been caught???
Great news, congrats on a job well done, happy new year
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Nice one man.
Well done jedi.
The Force was with you eh? Like at the sting? 🙂
Cheers
SB
just got up. still smiling 🙂 🙂
Unlike the theiving scumbags eh?
Nice one fella.
Well Done, not sure why but well done anyway ))) Think some sort of story is needed here??? 😉
[i]just got up. still smiling[/i]
that'll only last until you remember you have the ugliest bike in the world 😉
Glad you got it back 🙂
on xmas day tails from here calls me and says my bike is on ebay,
bushwacked and a few bid on it and bushwackeds account gets hacked so ebay remove his bid. bushwacked then emailed them direct offering to buy it.
anyway, bigl from here arranges to buy it cash on boxing day and meet at baldock services to get it.
thieves turn up, drive into the carpark,see me and get away without the arranged police doing a thing!!!
as they drove out my mate chaos was coming in and saw my bike in their car and gave chase until losing them on the a10.
we all combed hertford and then see the car and driver but no bike and passenger. the police make an arrest that night.
thief claims to have dumped the bike to the police.
yesterday they emailed bushwqcked offering to sell it to him!
we liased with undercover police and they got 2 more thieves in nick
🙂
thats only the bare bones of the story
Nice one!
So happy for you Jedi. That's brilliant, but care to put some flesh on the bones? This sounds like it could be bloody funny 😆
boxing day was funny as.
chaos in a jeep chasing them and me a minute behind with my mate in his car with l plates in pursuit, over taking the police.
"thieves turn up, drive into the carpark,see me"
so they knew who you were. Not just an opportunistic theft then?
MY GOD what a great story. Well done you, Pikey little gimps at least your back on the trails now. I hate people like that, get a job, work hard and buy your own bike!!!! we all had too...... it really hacks me off.. Anyway nice one, now its back to polishing my carbon stead 😆
Could that turn into an article for the mag? Seems like it would be worth reading...
Brilliant story and a nice thread well done jedi and STW
Wow what a brilliant story
Ace news.
Happy New Year.
[i]thieves turn up, drive into the carpark,see me[/i]
Good on you for getting the bike back but are you saying they know who you are? Just hope this is the end of it for you.
More importantly , he [u]knows[/u] who they are!
Could that turn into an article for the mag? Seems like it would be worth reading...
Good point, plus on the back of the article I think Jedi should be approached about becoming a mag tester for the burlier bikes that they can review?
thief claims to have dumped the bike to the police.yesterday they emailed bushwqcked offering to sell it to him!
Scroty *and* stupid.
well done, did you get it back complete?
How stupid are they?
If they saw you @ the meet, why email BW again, surely you'd have expected them to put 2+2 together... great result though.
[i]plus on the back of the article I think Jedi should be approached about becoming a mag tester for the burlier bikes that they can review? [/i]
How far up the guys arse are you going to go hora. He got a bike back, well done and all but thats it.
tut tut. No one likes to see someone on STW get praise huh
I'm fed up with bikes being tested by people who know what they're doing, anyway.
Why don't they let clueless numpties loose on them and see what they can come up with? I'm available for this role if asked, btw.
wwaswas, I could test how easy the bike is to push up hills and carry down places like the Beast etc 🙂
Nothing wrong with giving the guy praise, but your sycophantism is making me feel queasy.
Blackdog, Should I cancel the order for 2,000 Buddha-like statuettes of Jedi that are currently being produced in China? 😐
Great story. Glad you got it back jedi.
"Could that turn into an article for the mag? Seems like it would be worth reading... "
I agree it would be good, cheery happy new year story, perhaps for the website.
Top news.
I once got my GF's bike back after she had it stolen, I won't recount story though as not half as good as yours!
nice one mate and you`ve also saved others from the same trauma too, they shoud have there fingers removed cm by cm 1 at a time lol
result!! happy days!!
Would be great if once charged and found guilty the culprits can have their photos circulated to all trail centres and bike shops.
Great idea, but I wouldn't mind betting someone somewhere would be jumping up and down about it "breaching their human rights".
Cracking news. Good to hear someone who wanted their bike back that much rather than just rolling over and admitting defeat and claiming the insurance. If everyone was as commited as you then all our insurance premiums would drop!
Nice idea DWB but I'll wager it would just mean insurance companies get richer!
Still, good news Jedi. Glad to hear the thieving scum didn't get away with it.
I'm still holding out hope that i'll spot mine on the bay or in some classified somewhere...there cant be that many pimped 16 inch mk1 Kona A's out there...
not to mention the other 3 they stole from me, including some one-off green (but no the current light team-green) hope hubs which will be hard to miss....
anyway, congrats Jedi!
I've been on the receiving end of 2 bike thefts (thankfully both over 9 years ago now) - in both cases I'd have rather tracked down and recovered the bikes rather than have the insurance money...
Jedi,next time could you please video the chase,and do a documentry,much better than the crap on the tv over christmas.
Did they have a toilet moment when they saw you.
(shit themselves)
......bushwackeds account gets hacked so ebay remove his bid.....
Coincidence or related to the thieves? Either way, an unfortunate time for it to happen.
Cant belive the cheeky sods listed it on ebay for a 1-day auction and raised the princely sum of £600 (did a previous listed items search)
glad the skum got what was coming to them mate - well done & happy trails for 2010
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Tony,
So happy for you mate, made me choke up 😀
Regards Matt.
I don't know you Jedi, but I've always been impressed by your pics and vids. I'm really pleased that you got your bike back - sounds like you could teach the plods and ebay a thing or two.
its about not laying down.
they took what was mine. i was never brought up to let bullies get away with it. nor to give up
same thing.
>Cant belive the cheeky sods listed it on ebay for a 1-day auction and raised the princely sum of £600 (did a previous listed items search)
People on here were bidding on it attempting to "win"
Smiled when I saw the thread title this morning & keep doing so since - happy for yer result 😀
its about not laying down.
they took what was mine. i was never brought up to let bullies get away with it. nor to give up
Totally agree. I don't understand 'the insurance paid out so I'll move on' attitude.
its about not laying down.
they took what was mine. i was never brought up to let bullies get away with it. nor to give up
Amen to that brother.
Graet to hear good news storys like this one, it must be a huge relief and what a buzz!
There is no fate but what we make!
Nice one.
jedi - Member
the black beauty is home
Racist!
Nice one jedi.
Only just seen this from a twitter entry, but well done! Good story as well. What's the bike by the way? Someone called it ugly so I'll probably like it!
The Pinkster - MemberGreat idea, but I wouldn't mind betting someone somewhere would be jumping up and down about it "breaching their human rights".
[b][Tannoy] TJ to the Forum.... 😈 [/Tannoy][/b]
Hope you have put the seat down [url= http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SPECIALIZED-NO-SWAPS_W0QQitemZ320466974043QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Bikes_GL?hash=item4a9d51f55b ]see here[/url] 😉
Top news.
I once got my GF's bike back after she had it stolen, I won't recount story though as not half as good as yours!
Well just make it up then you silly bugger 😉
Great to hear bike is back. Hopefully the thief will get locked up ...unfortunately most likely a bit of soft "community service"....he should be made to dig a new bike trail!!
have you left appropriate "this seller is a thieving scumbag" feedback in his ebay profile 😕
there's a few ebay seller names they go by
excellent news!
cheers the full story is on the new page[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/2010/01/the-saga-of-jedis-stolen-bike-happy-ending/ ]http://www.singletrackworld.com/2010/01/the-saga-of-jedis-stolen-bike-happy-ending/[/url]
So now the dust has settled...
By all accounts these "gentlemen" were professional thieves, so did they just happen to stumble across your car containing the bike (without giving your location away this seems unlikely) or do you think they were actively roaming the neighbourhood?
It's clear now they were not using the forum otherwise they'd have kept up to date with your investigations..
Living nearby from you I'd be interested to know if anyone has any idea how precise their targeting was as obviously your detective work may well have saved my own pride and joy from the same fate 😯
the guy who had his yeti stolen the day before mine (still not recovered) lives 1 mile from herts shore and rides to hertford (sele) to visit his mum loads. i have never met the old boy but have seen him many times. conincednce?
also a house in my road has had building work done(finished now) that took weeks. i got vibes since then that things were not right.....
Read the story on STW yesterday. Sounds like someone should make a film out of it, what with the police blunders and car chases!
i still cant get the image of the barn owl hunting along the a1 in full snow at night out of my head. it was beautiful.
the police have asked me to assist in future bike crimes 🙂
have just read this.i'm glad that you got your bike back.i f***ing hate bike theiving scum.hope they have soap on a rope. 😈
the police have asked me to assist in future bike crimes
You'll need one of these then
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its the way they record stolen bikes. just colour and make. needs to change