After spending the last two weeks slowly building an awesome steel mounting bike (with various refurbished parts from my old racing MTB and new parts, all together worth about 2k), some cu@t has nicked it from the bike shed at work! absolute fu@king lowlife arse faced t@ssers!!
Will cost me about 1 1/2 months wages to re-build, and they just take it, just like that.
I'm now extreeeemly angry and hate everyone for a few days till I calm down!
With a 1/2" stinless steel lifting cable (rated to 1.5 tonnes) and a massive pad lock. They cut through the cable and its reinforced sleeve. In a busy area with lots of traffic, in a bike shed, under a CCTV camera (that turns out doesn't work!).
Learnt a lesson though, use the my spare motorbike lock next time!
Hopfully a camera from one of the other units has cought something. for a start the cutters must have been faily big (ours are about 1m long), so couldn't be hidden in a bag.
I'm sure it's gone for good, but fingers crossed anyway.
Steve1200S wrote:With a 1/2" stinless steel lifting cable (rated to 1.5 tonnes) and a massive pad lock. They cut through the cable and its reinforced sleeve. In a busy area with lots of traffic, in a bike shed, under a CCTV camera (that turns out doesn't work!).
Learnt a lesson though, use the my spare motorbike lock next time!
Hopfully a camera from one of the other units has cought something. for a start the cutters must have been faily big (ours are about 1m long), so couldn't be hidden in a bag.
I'm sure it's gone for good, but fingers crossed anyway.
Steve - my eldest bloke (Denis) works in Sheffield and is a very active MTB'r.
I'll ask him to keep an eye out etc.
BTW - he knows what that's like as he had his pride and joy stolen under identical circumstances here abt 12 years ago. And - it turned up a year later when the weasel thief tried to flog it at a 2nd hand shop.
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Real torque curves don't have a first derivative. :-^)
Sorry for the loss of your bike. Id be gutted if mine went and its worth a fraction of what yours was in monetary terms. Unfortunately bycicle thieves love cable as its the easiest thing to cut through regardless of what it can lift. A decent set of bolt cropper s will cut through them in seconds. A hardened steel shackle like the Kryptonite New York. Or the Abus Granit X Plus. Both are the best part of £90 and a determined thief with the correct tools and time will still eventually get through them but they will definitely deter the opportunist.
Well, that's an effin bar steward to say the least, Steve. It makes you want to do them some harm.
I had a nearly new bicycle stolen from the bike rack at work two years ago. CCTV showed a guy in a hoodie walked on to the premises with bolt cutters, cut the cable and cycled off, bolt cutters over his shoulder. Weeks of monitoring eBay proved fruitless.
A few years before, I went out to my parking bay and the wrong Ford Sierra was parked next to where my Sierra should have been. Funny, I thought and it took ages for the penny to drop that my car had gone. So I got on the phone to the police and they said, "we were just about to call you, sir". My car had been found abandoned about 40 miles away. It turns out the one parked next to where mine should have been had been stolen and left when the shitbag swapped over to mine.
