[Closed] Cheltenham - Bike Thieves Again

I talked to a guy from cheltenham on a bike trail in Wales and he had 4 bikes taken out of his shed. They were all locked together onto metal posts in concrete. They took it all concrete and all over several garden walls aswell.

How many people have had bikes taken out of garages .......... do not leave them there.

How many people have had bikes taken out of garages .......... do not leave them there.

Where else am I supposed to put them?

My garage has 9 bikes in it... am I supposed to put them all in the dining room?

Dave

edit: actually 10 now, just bought a new one I'd forgotten to count 🙂

How many people have had bikes taken out of garages .......... do not leave them there.

A fine suggestion. I'll choose which one of the rooms in the West Wing of my extensive country house is the most appropriate to house them

Now, that is awful, and it must be gutting, but

[i]a red and black On-one 456 [b]worth £2,250[/b][/i]

That's quite a build.

Mind you, he had quite a collection

[i]The one-of-a-kind £6,000 bike was built by Isabel in the workshop of Leisure Lakes Bikes to celebrate the landmark in the couple's relationship.

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Three of his other bikes were also taken – a black Yeti SB-66 worth £5,500, a carbon Lapierre Zesty 914 worth £5,250, and a red and black On-one 456 worth £2,250.

Mrs Booth's red, white and black Specialised SSR Myka worth £1,500 was also taken, along with her 12-year-old son Davey's red Santa Cruz, worth £2,500.[i]

which meant

[i]The bikes were too expensive to be included on the couple's contents insurance and they had not taken out a separate policy.[/i]

So you can afford 20k's worth of bikes, but not, I dunno, about a grand to insure them...

😕 🙄

Blimey! He's landed on his feet there if his missus is building him 6 grand bikes 😯

9 would obviously be a problem. We have 6 and they are all in the house. Binners always thought you were a toff.

ratswithwings - The northern scumbag persona is just a front. In reality I'm landed gentry, own half of cheshire and live in a sprawling country pile. My car even has heated wing mirrors.

I just like roughing it with the riff raff on here. It keeps me in touch with the little people, so I have some conversation when I'm having kitchen suppers with Dave in Chipping Norton 😉

maybe I'll move my bed into the garage and the bikes can have my bedroom...

Yes I perceived your toffness from the lack of use of colloquialisms within your written word.

[i]own half of cheshire[/i]

The cheaper half, one suspects.

there's an [i]expensive[/i] half?

I phrased it very carefully 😉

[i]own half of cheshire[/i]

I doff my cap to Lord Binners of Adswood

Is it just my naive mind, but I struggle to see how the hell some of these bikes that are getting nicked will get moved on, they're so obviously one of a kinds and stick out like a sore thumb. The fatbike that was stolen in Oxford for instance. Well done crim, sell that one on! Even if he gives it the usual rattle can spray job to hide its identity, it won't get over the tyres being almost 4" wide. And then there's this guy's Yellow Intense, a Yeti SB-66, and a Carbon Lapierre. Not your run of the mill stuff...

Surely with networks like we have on here, someone is bound to spot these machines at some point, or am I missing the mark and something else will happen, like them being broken for parts and sold on ebay?

Really winds me up to hear of anyone having their bikes stolen, and I'd actively go out of my way to help anyone get theirs back. Have even popped into local pawn shops round here after having seen a couple of scrotes on a nearly new Lapierre Zesty a few months ago, clearly not theirs, to see what was going down, but the guys in there knew their stuff about bikes and were all too familiar with ringing the police for anyone who came in with bikes that weren't theirs.

they're so obviously one of a kinds and stick out like a sore thumb

don't forget the unique prototype carbon transition covert nicked last week!

My guess would be that the frames are being discarded and the parts sold on.

Dave

Galileo Gardens is far too close to the dodgy parts of Cheltenham. We looked at a house there about seven years ago - really nice but the area is a problem.

Sounds like they could have taken more precautions but if the scrotes want to steal them they will.

I guess the best thing is not to alert chavs that you have bikes in the house - no external bike racks, if riding home go through some alleys or similar so they cannot follow you in a car.

I hope that the local police start taking this more seriously.

They are sold in eastern europe, and are moved on by profesional gangs,
its big business and easier than selling cars.

And it has got to be said - lucky sod having a bird who will buy and build a £6k bike for him - hope they get them back.

alfabus - Member

maybe I'll move my bed into the garage and the bikes can have my bedroom...

Don't come whinging on here when your beds nicked! 😀

Obviously it must be gutting to lose a collection like that, but £20,000 of bikes and no insurance?!

Is it just my naive mind, but I struggle to see how the hell some of these bikes that are getting nicked will get moved on, they're so obviously one of a kinds and stick out like a sore thumb.

Strip them, sell the parts piecemeal. Almost impossible to trace, especially if you build up another bike out of bits of stolen ones. Easy for anyone with any degree of mechanical competence.

Keep a frame for a year or so then sell it on once people have forgotten about it.

Stuff like that theft ^^ is properly targeted, they'll have scoped out the garage well in advance, known exactly what was in there and gone in prepared, you need two people, a van and professional cutting gear minimum for that. It's not opportunistic, it's professional. Strip the bikes, pass the bits around various different members of the gang, fence them on, sell them picemeal and it's (virtually) untraceable. Distinctive frames will just be shipped abroad and sold on overseas to avoid being picked up on UK ebay searches.

I'm sure they can strip them and sell the parts no problem, and probably for more than they'd get for the full builds, but I don't see how they can get rid of the frames so easily. I don't buy them moving them abroad as it's too much of a risk getting a batch of bikes past customs and they're not going to make a trip for just one, and if they just sit on them for a year until people have forgotten about them they'd have to be sitting on a lot of bikes at once if they rob regularly, and that's a big risk if they do get caught. I really hope they're not just trashing the frames

6 grand for a Tracer?

Canyon Nerve AM7 stolen 2nd Dec 2012 from the back garden, Bishops cleeve Cheltenham. Hadnt locked it up yet after a ride and it was gone. Must have followed me home. Could barely afford to buy it, certainly wont be able to replace it.
Not a common bike that for sure. Black and white full suss. If you see it there is certainly a cash reward. My guess is its already in bits for ebay. Sad face

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