[Closed] Stolen Bike Content - Thetford Area

Gaurantee it was the same scrotes.

Sorry to hear this buddy. WTF is wrong with people. Where did they steal it from?

Stole from garage - had extra padlocks on garage door - had bike double locked to a steal frame concreted to the garage floor.

The bar-stewards cut through the frame it was locked to, after forcing the garage door and ripping the padlocks off the frame.

Might take up running it's a lot less expensive and hassle to replace if someone nicks you're running shoes!

if you keep your bike in your house you could get the chance to beat the living hell out of the scum!

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Trek's picture of the bike in case anyone in the areas spotss anything.

Cheers

sorry to hear v sad 😥

Will keep em peeled - I'm in Ipswich

i keep them peeled in hertford

Are you from Thetford or near? They have been busy around there recently.
This is from the Thetford MTB site
"STOLEN BIKES
Some skum bags last night in - god knows what temp broke into a member of the Thetford MTB Team and stole his and his wifes bikes in Thetford, they had to remove a window from his shed which is about 2 foot by 2 foot, remove the bars, they tried the door but could not get the 3rd lock off, So they had to take the bikes apart and pass them out the window.
Bikes taken
Whyte 19 polished frame, gold drop outs (16 inch) complete bike, lots of very expensive parts
Titus Racer X Black, blue decals (18 inch) complete bike, lots of expensive Parts.
Ladys Contesa, (not sure on the spec
If you see these bike around or ebay Please let us know"

And they aren't the only ones. Again from the Thetford MTB site.
"My 2006 Marin rift zone was stolen from my garage just before xmas. I had just upgraded the rear mech to shadow xt too
It has a drop nose selle saddle on it along with my polar speed sensor, XT hollowtech cranks, esposure light clamp etc.
Whilst it is not the most expensive bike around I shall be keeping my eyes peeled for it at Thetford."

Hope you get it back. Drop into the local Halfords. I had a bike nicked and some of it truned up there and one of the chaps recognised my forks and called the cops.

Sad news beautifull looking bike. 🙁

Guarantee its the same Skum that had the TmtbR riders bikes, just be sure to block your garage door with the car or keep the bikes in the house.

I know, last night is the first time in about 3 months that we didn't push the car right up in fornt of the garage.

Must have been waiting for the opportunity to arise........or there's a 'spotter' in the street that tipped them off.

Yes curly68, I do in fact live in Thetford. The sooner we're out of here the better.

put it in as a favourite search on ebay incase they put it on there.

I have done numerous ebay searches.

Trouble is, if the bike or its components get put on, its trying to guess what they will list it as. Just doing general searches............not sure if bike theives are specific on their adverts in case they get tracked down?

What was the frame Number? will keep my eyes open in the peterborough area ;0)
Think Ebay should make sellers list the frame numbers on bikes/frames before they can be sold. Same for the classifieds on here. People must be buying these stolen bikes else there wouldnt be a market for them.
List the frame numbers or get your add deleted?

look on gumtree.com

Have checked out gumtree - no luck so far.

I assume that as the frame is the only thing with the serial number, they'll strip it and sell the components and chuck the frame?

This makes searching on ebay and others sites a needle in a haystack.

Likelyhood is it'll end up at a market somewhere where it is probably less tracable?

advertise in the local paper saying how much its worth.
appeal to thier greed and they wont split it and will sell it complete and high priced

Going to send info into local paper tomorrow. Good thinking about stating the price, hadn't thought of that.

I know though in my heart of hearts I wont be seeing it again though.

All be it valuable to me, I appreciate the police aren't going to turn the region upside down trying to find it.

Especially with the amount that seem to get stolen in areas with any form of biking facilities.

dont give up!!!!

Gutted for you, gorgeous bikes. Don't give up.

there has to be a link to other bikes stolen.
drive around and see.
the snow helps as you can follow your tread pattern in the snow.

i did 🙂

A long shot maybe but have you ridden at Brandon Country Park recently? A red Citroen Saxo had been seen there recently on numerous times, loaded up with "lads". I think someone on the Thetford MTB site got their number. They could have been scouting and picking up registration numbers perhaps?

Last time I rode, was wales, last weekend of november.

Bike has been locked up in the garage since whilst I had been waiting for delivery of a new bolt to replace the one I sheared which holds the saddle to the seatpost. Sods law it will be delivered tomorrow to rub it in.

Up until that point I ride/rode thetford every weekend.

Saw about the red citroen on the mtbthetford forum. cheers

If you want it back then why not offer a substantial cash reward??
I don't mean like £50 . Enough so the 'honor amongst thieves' code is broken, or they can go out and buy a few gm's with the reward.
Up to you if you try to sting them, or obtain a sniper rifle.
You have nothing to loose by sticking a few ads in some paper shops / Tesco / Aldi / Lidl / Local newspaper.
Northern Industrial Tools sell date / time stamp video still cameras . Bet they come creeping round your gaff at 3am to have looksee.
A few 500W floodlights at a height enough to deter being bashed with a stick . . .stable door horse . . . . . . coat

Hope you get it back , and mash the ****ers heads in

Sorry to hear that mate,
I am Downham market way so i will keep an eye out around here and around Thetford and Cambridge.
Anything distinguishing about it?

Call Jedi, he has the force with him.

Sadly it sounds a repeat burglary as they know you would replace the old one.

B'stads ! Feel for you mate.

As said, it sounds like a repeat burglary. My bet is they will be back again - thinking you will have replaced
it yet again.

Get yourself a mini DVR camera that you can hide - get all your kit out & in the house (if poss) and nab the gits when they do come back !

You can borrow my 7 iron if you like!! (perfect club for all situations) !

Check out smoke cloak, see if they do fits to private premsies. was in a Tesco garage when one went off, very very disorientating.
Also ask your local police crime prevention officers if there are any smart water traps that they can install for when you get your replacement bike. Or a slavering angry dog with the appropriate warning signs on the garage door.

Already decided not to bother to replace until we've left thetford.....not worth the hassle. Knowing somones watching waiting for you to let your guard down isn't a nice feeling. I will now be considered a future target.

Tommid......only thing non stock about it was that I replaced the SPD's with DMR V12 magnesium flat pedals in white.

hmm v12s on a bike like that might be quite rare 🙂

don't give up hope!

Jedi - there's nowt in mountain bike skills courses compared to vigilante-ism in tracking down stolen bikes. Definitely time to expand. The local neds will be s#$tting themselves when they know you're in the case.

I'm struggling not to mention the using the forc...

🙂

Absolutely incredible what is discussed on here! 😯

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/d-locks-whats-there-weaknessweakspot?replies=20#post-1020558

I know this isn't going to help at all, but when I last went to Bikeart 2 months ago we saw a similar bike to yours. It stood out because the guys riding the bikes didn't have any of the usual riding gear on, just jeans and jumpers if my memory serves me right. It might have been yourself I don't know, but when someone has a bike like that they usually have the appropriate clothing to go with it. It's a longshot, but maybe it's still in the area - I often go to thetford so will keep my eyes peeled, plus i live in Norwich so will keep checking in Mousehold in case they come down this way. All the best mate, I know what its like to have your pride and joy stolen, difference is I caught the guy riding mine a week later and i'm 6'2" and 16 stone........ 🙂

Anything useful on mousehold ?.

S.

oi, that d lock thread was me and im no thief! i was more concerned about keeping my pride and joy.

you have my sympathy tho, ive had bike stolen in the past.it sucks.

The B______ds

....this is why I don't leave any decent bikes in the garage

Just been looking on the old ebay and there is a similar bike to yours '3 months old' for sale, could be perfectly genuine but ya never know! did yours have any marks distinguishing it?

Item number 280482660592

Srry odannyboy, was a very emotional time, then your thread appeared.

Looked at ebay - frame size on mine was XL, but might be listed wrong. Only real distinguishing features I had on mine were DMR V12 mag flat pedals in white.

But as I had hardly used it there wasn't many 'battle scars' that make it that noticable unfortunately.

This whole topic is saddening to read, especially when you read of scrotes taking bikes to pieces and passing them through iron bars. Its an unfortunate evolution though with some bikes costing several thousand pounds and still being incredibly difficult to identify if they are found by police. It seems like the committed scrote has in the past moved from cars (now very diffult to steal due to immobilisers), motorbikes (similar technology) and now onto bikes. All I can say is that if this happened to me then my bikes would be in my lounge! I know this isn't easy for everyone to do though, maybe a website with chipped traceable bikes with descriptions of parts is what is needed, readily accesible by the police, such as immobilise (for mobile phones). Clearly this is now growing at a rapid pace and it could be that the bikes stolen are heading out of this country along with cars & motorbikes? Maybe the Trek mentioned in this thread will find itself in some bent corrupt African country, I dunno.

What gets me about these thefts that in nearly all cases they are are not random. Its clear that:

know where the bikes are
know what expensive bikes are
when the bikes will be in the garage
come equipped to take them so they have a van or car parked nearby
spend sometime around the premises waiting to see its safe to go in
have a buyer for the bike

Conclusion must be they get the information somewhere or somehow? There is a security leak. You can put your self in the shoes of the thief and ask yourself how would you do it?

Is our address connected to our bike - LBS, Forums, MBC?
Is someone looking at your movements?
Do you ride the bike from home?
Someone follow you?
Someone in your street see you ride the bike?

Exactly Pawsy, all questions I've asked myself.

Sadly now everyone I see is a bike thief unless proven otherwise.