A Lot of bike thefts in mid wales this week

sidewinder · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Aug 2011 Karma :

Including my mechanics place 9 bikes including customers plus quads and all his stock 25k worth Crying or Very sad

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2013/12/14/bike-repair-business-hit-in-25k-break-in-as-christmas-presents-targeted/

Be wary if you offered cheap motorcross bikes .

Dave70 · World Chat Champion Joined: 21 Jan 2012 Karma :

Ahh....that time of year when little Troy has to have what he wants.
Sad

P.addy · Red Rocket Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Karma :

Pricks, has happened to people I know too... takes the piss.

Touch wood I've had nothing significant stolen Neutral

Truly gutting I bet

Vincent · Banned Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Karma :

Poor bugger.....imagine having to ring customers up and telling them that their bike's been knicked Sad

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Ed Case · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Mar 2009 Karma :

If he was in business properly he should be insured for theft loss however that's small recompense for the folks who've lost they're p & j and for him personally. No doubt the shitbag insurance company'll duck and weave so they have to pay out fuck all as is normal !. Evil or Very Mad

sidewinder · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Aug 2011 Karma :

G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

Often the insurance needed to cover everything could easily match that £10k or whatever if it's in a high crime/high fraud area.

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G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

Indeed; someone had a go at one of the locks of someone that I know who does bikes the other night.
Wondered if they were disturbed and planned to come back as one of the two locks had been smashed off.

There's a lot of locked doors in the old industrial complex and most of them don't have stuff worth stealing behind.
He rarely makes it obvious there's bikes in there and there's not many people around.

So most likely it was someone he's done work for or sold a bike to.

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woo · World Chat Champion Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Karma :

only fitting punishment for the theives is death and the pain that death will leave the familes of said theifs in pain.

and to those that say that then makes us just bad as the theifs i intend to be worse than the theifs, death to them wankers!!
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Vracktal · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Oct 2012 Karma :

The amount they nicked is surely gonner be difficult to conceal? Someone at some point is going to either see a whole load of parts suddenly come on the market or find a whole lot of crashed bikes in some ditch somewhere.
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Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

Unfortunately, dirt bikes either whole or as parts wouldn't be hard to sell.