Surron scumbags strike again

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/mountain-biker-robbed-gang-thieves-9698077

Saw a gang of the f***ers going down Leckhampton/Bath road a few months back, No regard for traffic, pedestrians etc. I wouldn’t be surprised If the police have a good idea who is involved. But a) proving and b) being arsed might be harder.

I can’t see the problem with these things ending until the police are given free reign to use suitably equipped drones to chase and physically bring them to a stop. Which they won’t, so this problem is here to stay, get used to it.

The police / government should reimburse people for damages to their vehicles for ramming Surrons **** off the road *.

*I’m a few beers deep

Does anyone buy and use Sur-rons legally?

Quite shocked to hear this. It’s the place I do most of my riding, though I haven’t been up there solo at night for a few years. There were a couple of Sur Rons reported on the hill back in April, but nothing since then.

Is this MO to nick a bike happening in other areas of the country?

Does anyone buy and use Sur-rons legally?

there is actually very little legal use for them – only off road with the landowners permission.

The man is described as being in his 20s, white, 6ft in height and of a stocky build. He was wearing a hooded black top with a dollar sign on the chest, dark trousers and had a scarf pulled over his lower face.

The other two suspects were described as being smaller in build and were also wearing dark clothing.

That’s the uniform and it (intentionally) makes them pretty much impossible to individually ID.

Feel bad for the Victim, hope the attackers get caught, but doubt they will…

Does anyone buy and use Sur-rons legally?

My mate is thinking about getting one [slaps head emoji].   60 years old, hoping to retire next year, ridden motorbikes forever, owns a small business. He’s talking about buying one, getting it road legal, registered, etc.. and using it for “pottering about” and legal use on our local green lanes (BOATs). I’ve tried to discourage him; pointing out that he will look a tit, is likely to get mugged for it, etc. He’s actually been a bit put off by the fact that he’s found all the retailers of these to be utter knobs too. I’ve suggested he gets an emtb instead.

Very much time to AirTag everything!

Come to think of it.  Stealing and selling phones dropped off dramatically when Apple and others added the ability to track and brick phones.  Could the governments force ebike manufacturers to do the same?

Report its position every time it’s activated or charged.  Make it impossible to remove the electronics from the rest of the bike.  Make it use multiple communication formats to make it hard to disrupt.

We’ve had a motoX bike ragging up and down the road a lunch time this week.  I reckon you should be allowed to rent paintball guns from the police station loaded with indelible ink and radioactive tracers.

Issue is the Chinese manufacturers fully realise they are making bank off the ‘scrote’ market and will ignore any attempts to make thier producy less attractive to scrotes as that’s where they’re making their money.

Still enjoying the memory of seeing a swearing, agitated ned trying to get its non responsive Sau-ron going again in Leith the other day.  Our local  ‘kends hang about with someone on a modified BSO that has a two stroke engine. They have been buzzing around for months without consequence.  Same “uniform”.

Suppose it’s what they do before they put their big boy pants on and start driving cars with exploding exhausts around.

Report its position every time it’s activated or charged.  Make it impossible to remove the electronics from the rest of the bike.  Make it use multiple communication formats to make it hard to disrupt.

Some of them already do this. I’ve got a Bosch Smart System one and it has a tracker in it. You have to pay 40 quid a year or so for it to work. The phone unlocks the bike and you need fingerprint or passcode to unlock the phone.

there is actually very little legal use for them – only off road with the landowners permission.

Whilst that may be generally true for the ones arseholes rag around its not 100% true.

Light Bee L1E

SUR-RON L1E LBX

Can ride with a CBT, 20-60 mile range.

FWIW you can pick up a Seat Mo/Silence S01 for the same price which is a 125 equivalent, faster and with better range but needs a Cat A1 provisional on top of the CBT. They’re 2 grand second hand by the look of it.

I’ve seen precisely one being ridden legally on L-plates. So yeah, there is a legal use for them, but it’s mostly scrotes.

Is this MO to nick a bike happening in other areas of the country?

Richmond Park and Regent’s Park in London have both had several similar incidents. Mopeds or Surrons, driver and pillion passenger both masked, pull up alongside a cyclist, the passenger will kick or shove the cyclist then they can grab the bike and sort of wheel it alongside them as they escape.

There’s a well-known road out of South London, common route for dozens of roadie clubs getting out into the North Downs that also had a spate of these attacks because it was quite remote. Once you were on the road there were no witnesses and no easy means of escape.

Saw one guy on a Surron hanging around near Leeds Urban Bike Park the other day as well – not sure if he was spotting cars leaving with expensive bikes on racks or on the lookout for people cycling to/from the venue but exactly the same “uniform”, mobile phone in hand.

Absolute scum.

 the total weight is just 47kg.

That’s impressive. Some people on here think that’s a reasonable weight for a hardtail!

There’s a surron and stupid scooter dealer next to my work.

I periodically report them to the police for antisocial behaviour of both their customers and their staff ‘testing’ the bikes up and down the pedestrian area next to the shop.

Scum.

Does anyone buy and use Sur-rons legally?

I was asking similar questions about Buckfast and the Buckie drinkers this morning whilst picking up shards of dark green glass bottle from the kids play park (it’s usually the grounds of the primary school but they must have fancied a change of scene).

Can’t help but feel that there must be some kind of government clampdown coming here, the useage of these bikes is just so ludicrously weighted towards the toe-rag end of things.