Stolen bikes

dhope
dhope Posts: 6,699
edited October 2010 in Commuting chat
Strange turn of events.

Last Friday I was knocked off my bike. Consequently my road bike is at the workshop. As I'm not riding this week I brought my SS upstairs to tidy, and it's still mid-fettle.
So, for the first time in 6 months, neither bike is downstairs on the bike rack.

Last night people forced the lock downstairs (into the foyer area, not my flat itself) and stole 4 bikes belonging to neighbours.

So obviously have offered condolences to neighbours and it's a shitty thing to happen, but I'm just wowed at the timing of it all.
Rose Xeon CW Disc
CAAD12 Disc
Condor Tempo

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  • Zachariah
    Zachariah Posts: 782
    So Mr. dhope, can you account for your whereabouts over the night of the 20th...?
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    This ^.. very "lucky"

    I take your bikes were insured anyways if they have both been down there?
    Purveyor of sonic doom

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  • hatbeard
    hatbeard Posts: 1,087
    that's pretty lucky. some scrote tried to kick the front door in to our shared hallway a few weeks back.

    they never got in but they buggered the lock so badly neither could we.

    now that's happened there's no way in hell I'd leave my bike in the hall for even a single evening now so I'm resigned to lumping it up and down the (very narrow) stairs every day.
    Hat + Beard
  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    Clever Pun wrote:
    This ^.. very "lucky"

    I take your bikes were insured anyways if they have both been down there?

    They will be :oops:

    Probably a grand's worth gone :(
    Think it was two decent bikes and two BSOs that went.
    Rose Xeon CW Disc
    CAAD12 Disc
    Condor Tempo
  • hatbeard
    hatbeard Posts: 1,087
    dhope wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    This ^.. very "lucky"

    I take your bikes were insured anyways if they have both been down there?

    They will be :oops:

    just got round to sorting mine out too...
    Hat + Beard
  • OldSkoolKona
    OldSkoolKona Posts: 655
    Have any of you seen this site?

    http://www.bikerevolution.org/

    Seems like a good initiative.

    My local council have started a campaign against cycle theft after news that over 2,000 bikes had been stolen in the past three years. Will be interesting to see how it goes:
    http://www.richmondlcc.co.uk/2010/10/19 ... -richmond/

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