Team Sky bikes stolen

bikes`n`guns
bikes`n`guns Posts: 959
edited February 2014 in Pro race
16 team bikes stolen from a team vehicle, ouch !!! fair old cash` worth there.

Probably end up sold for less that a Chinarello :shock:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/26303554

Then they borrowed bikes,, oh the shame ! Bretagne-Seche Environnement team save the day ! Yay :D
Trek,,,, too cool for school ,, apparently

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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Need to stop this trend.
  • MrT
    MrT Posts: 260
    Either very bold or very stupid......or very good at riding with no hands on bars....literally.
    Likely the Omanis will take this personally.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,069
    Have the Omanis annexed France then?
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    ^ Won't be long before there's a London stage in the Tour of Qatar.

    Crime-time: staging a break-in then stealing absolutely nothing would be a hell of a way to undermine marginal placebos 8)
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  • Were the thieves doped? I heard they broke the record for bolt cutting that type of lock.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,878
    edited February 2014
    Clearly the threat of having their hands cut off acted as a deterrent for thieves in Oman.

    That's why they struck in France.

    Where the penalties are gentler

    Unlike Oman

    Where Haut Var isn't



    *ahem*
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  • napoleond
    napoleond Posts: 5,992
    Why all the Oman references? The theft was in France.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,878
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Why all the Oman references? The theft was in France.

    That's what they want you to think

    or something :oops:
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  • Macaloon wrote:
    ^ Won't be long before there's a London stage in the Tour of Qatar.

    Crime-time: staging a break-in then stealing absolutely nothing would be a hell of a way to undermine marginal placebos 8)

    Homoeopathic break-ins? "It's terrible, Sarge - they broke in, and did nothing but leave two buckets of water behind."
  • plowmar
    plowmar Posts: 1,032
    According to papers nearly £220,000 worth. You'd've thought they'd 've had good security at least up to bronze standard.

    That's what I've got and my £100 bike's never been stolen. :wink:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Were the thieves doped? I heard they broke the record for bolt cutting that type of lock.

    They broke the bolt cutting times of known doping bolt cutters so must have been doped.
  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    plowmar wrote:
    According to papers nearly £220,000 worth. You'd've thought they'd 've had good security at least up to bronze standard.

    That's what I've got and my £100 bike's never been stolen. :wink:

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  • plowmar
    plowmar Posts: 1,032
    Bar tape ?