Two bikes stolen from my garage, please keep an eye out

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Two bikes stolen from my garage, please keep an eye out

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Started 11 years ago by Wilmington's Cow
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Wilmington's Cow
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Garage has been broken into an two bikes stolen, anyone in Edinburgh, please keep any eye out for these:

Cotic X, Black, white bar tape, Planet X saddle, SRAM Apex compact double, Nitto Randoneur bars, Avid BB7 road brakes, H Plus Son rims on Shimano XT hubs (with orange nipples, this bike is distinctive), orange cabling. (this bike is basically unique in Edinburgh, so if it's shifted on in the city it SHOULD show up).

Cotic X with new wheels by blackpuddinonnabike, on Flickr

Ladies Ridgeback Speed SL in green - standard out of the box, but with a black and orange 'maple leaf' Crane Suzu bell.

Posted 11 years ago #
Nelly
Member

As I said on twitter, horrible. I think you have more than one ride, but if you are short, you are welcome to my MTB?

Posted 11 years ago #
Wilmington's Cow
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Bike theft looks like joyriding neds. Two bikes propped against the fence next door, unlocked. Had read on a forum of a Porty theft a few days back where this happened - bikes nicked, previously nicked bikes left outside. Presumably riding down the street, saw the bike rack on the car, decided on a couple of new bikes to nick.

Posted 11 years ago #
Min
Member

Oh crap, I am so sorry. :-(

Posted 11 years ago #
chdot
Admin

Seems like a lot of effort to go to - breaking in a bit more than just breaking bike locks!

Presume 'left' bikes are previously stolen - and hopefully reported.

Would seem this is part of 'serial crime wave' - maybe just involving two people.

Police ought to be keen to sort it.

Posted 11 years ago #
Roibeard
Member

@WC - sorry to hear that, always an unsettling and off-putting experience.

Robert

Posted 11 years ago #
gembo
Member

All bad, but especially the one you designed and built yourself. The thing that annoys most when this happens is the loss of your own time, energy, ingenuity, style, flair, élan etc for a couple of morons to have a laugh for a moment.

Leaving the other two is quite interesting

Posted 11 years ago #
Wilmington's Cow
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I guess bikes can be replaced, but knowing the effort I put into that Cotic it's quite hard to take. Added to that is just the impact on the day and after.

We were supposed to be going on an organised fungi foray today, which is why I was up at 6.30am, but obviously had to can that to wait on the police and then make the garage secure again; then there will be the inevitable hassle of sorting out the home insurance (while wondering if they'll just do the same with our bikes and dump them somewhere when they nick another couple).

It's basically bike joyriding, by the looks of it, and seems to be a pattern. So as chdot says, probably just the same couple of kids/neds/gits going round and doing it for kicks and nothing else. Because they can.

Posted 11 years ago #
crowriver
Member

Rotten luck. Really bad.
Hope you get them back.

Posted 11 years ago #
DaveC
Member

Sorry to read this WC! I hope you get this all resolved very quickly. :0 (

Posted 11 years ago #
EddieD
Member

Damn - that's rough. I hope you do get good news soon. I always was a wee bit laissez-faire about the security on my bent thinking "it's really traceable, no-one will nick that" - I'll have to adjust my thinking.

And my insurance.

Posted 11 years ago #
Instography
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Buggrit. That's very crappy. And a slightly weird way to be neddish. Let me know if there's anything I can help you out with while you get bikes sorted. I can do whole bikes or parts for tall men but not so good on the women's bike front.

Posted 11 years ago #
Baldcyclist
Member

I'll refrain from comment, because the only words I can think of at the moment involve cursing.

Hope you get them back soon.

Posted 11 years ago #
minus six
Member

Commiserations, WC.

The neds in question might see this as an exciting Grand Theft Auto escapade, ditching bikes and on to the next ones, but to break into the garage ups the stakes and I hope they are apprehended pronto, and get their day in court.

Is it a standard up and over garage lock? I have one of them, might need to consider an anchor upgrade if they are that easy to manipulate.

Posted 11 years ago #
amir
Member

Not good at all. Hope they are fine.

When you get around to thinking about future security, if you have a concrete floor, ground anchors are pretty easy to fit. Together with a good lock, that will give you a good defence against crims and insurance companies.

Posted 11 years ago #
ARobComp
Member

Sorry to hear it WC. Have shared on FB and on twitter.

Posted 11 years ago #
weiss
Member

Unfortunately, it looks like the police are more interested in finding out who damaged a statue of a dog, than finding your bikes, I'm afraid.

Posted 11 years ago #
Morningsider
Member

Really sorry to hear this WC - a break-in can leave you quite shaken. It seems very odd, can't really imagine it was just a couple of kids messing around, as breaking into a garage is a step up from general neddishness.

Posted 11 years ago #
custard
Member

Pm'd

Posted 11 years ago #
gdm
Member

Having seen and admired the Cotic at PY I offer my sincere commiserations. What a pain.

Is there any chance the thieves might have seen you going in to the garage with one of the bikes, or have any immediate neighbours also had garages broken into but with nothing stolen? It just seems more than a bit of good luck on their part to have just picked one at random and found a couple of replacements for the ones previously pinched. Not trying to make you paranoid of course!

Posted 11 years ago #
Wilmington's Cow
Member

Not really so random - car parked on the driveway with bike carriers on the roof. And seems that it really is (from the police) a common occurrence at the moment. Nick a bike, ride around a bit, nick another one and dump the old one. Apparently last night there was another bike from 'round the corner' stolen from a garage as well.

And seems like one police prediction has come true - thanks for the PM custard.

Posted 11 years ago #
riffian
Member

That's really bad news, WC. I'm local to you so will keep a keen eye out. Got me thinking about ground anchor given the poor state of my garage doors...

Posted 11 years ago #
sg37409
Member

Nae luck man. Hope you get them back unscathed.

Posted 11 years ago #
LaidBack
Member

Can put up pics on LB and Bike Works... sorry to hear as know how much effort it takes to get these things sorted.

Posted 11 years ago #
Snowy
Member

Just caught up on this - really sorry to hear. Keeping eyes peeled.

Posted 11 years ago #
Coxy
Member

Oh no! Will keep 'em peeled. Hopefully they'll turn up. Perhaps you can contact the East Team - I'm sure they come across lots of abandoned bikes.

I know what it's like, especially galling when it involves custom/ handbuilt stuff. I lost 3 pairs of hand-built wheels (on 3 bikes) when I got done a few years ago.

Stable door/horse bolted, but this looks good for shed security:

http://securityforbikes.com/shed-shackle.php

In fact, the above company are really good for security chains as good as Almax, et al, but not quite as expensive.

Posted 11 years ago #
531
Member

We have had a wave of garage thefts, especially bikes, on the south side during the past year. I had a bike stolen as have several other people on my street. They had used a screwdriver to turn the lock - apparently standard garage locks are very poorly made and insecure. Police suggested backing a car up to the door to keep it from opening which is not always practical. I installed one of these: "Enfield Garage Door Bolt Locks" purchased from ebay (around £30). It is a deadbolt that you install on the interior of the door on one or both sides, openable by key from either interior or exterior. Not completely trivial as a diy job - took about 2 hours working slowly to get one installed, including drilling the steel door. It is not very noticeable and I feel a lot safer.

Posted 11 years ago #
Wilmington's Cow
Member

"Police suggested backing a car up to the door to keep it from opening which is not always practical"

Funnily enough this is what I've started doing. And putting two tower bolts on the inside - I'm going to start taking the bikes in and out the back door and round the back of the house, out the side gate. It's not much added hassle, but saves the front door being open to view, and means I can lean rattly heavy stuff against the door if, somehow, they'd managed to get it open. All adds to the hassle factor for a thief, plus more chance of making a noise that will wake us.

But as Coxy says, a little after-the-horse-has-bolted. I've got a couple of steel loops in the floor of the garage, that I installed 5 years ago precisely to guard against this, but over the years of there simply never being anything like this in our street I'd got complacent.

More and more hacked off about it all. Mel suggested getting a posse to ride along Hay Drive :D

Posted 11 years ago #
Baldcyclist
Member

Makes you think about security. My commuter more or less lives in the car week in week out, easy target. I've also been lulled into the "well nothing ever happens here" sense of security.

Must also buy a big lock for the 'nice' bike, and lock it to it's (wall mounted/bolted) stand. It only goes out a dozen times a year, so wouldn't be a hassle to lock/unlock.

Posted 11 years ago #
paolobr
Member

@WC, that is crap.

@Baldcyclist - per "well nothing ever happens here" - just gone downstairs to my locked storage cupboard, and put my large Kryptoflex cable through the two bikes I store there. Also with spate of thefts in Porty (threads passim), I guess I'm getting a bit more twitchy (I live near Seafield).

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