Stolen Bikes Thread - Mod Note please read post #1 before posting

sickle

My lapierre rcr 100 was stolen from Cowper Luas Station yesterday (same as pictured below, mine had a silver rear mudguard, yellow dustcaps and a couple of kellogs reflectors).
Was locked with 2 Abus Cable locks.
Its at least the 3rd bike I know of to go missing there in the last few weeks, there were no bikes parked there this morning so I suspect they came back last night and cleared out all the bikes.:(

kenmc

bummer that your bike is gone, but you knew of 2 other bikes being robbed from the same area before yours and yet you were *still* happy to leave it there with only 2 cable locks?

youcancallmeal

A lot of the stolen bikes I've heard about are from Luas stops, its places like that that would be ideal for sting operations!

dermob

I Know its too late for a lot of the bikes posted here, but has anyone with a bicycle thats expensive, ever use one of the available GPS trackers??

i think i would if i had an expensive bike that was in use everyday and parked outside

sebphoto

dermob wrote: »

I Know its too late for a lot of the bikes posted here, but has anyone with a bicycle thats expensive, ever use one of the available GPS trackers??

i think i would if i had an expensive bike that was in use everyday and parked outside

GPS tracker won't change anything as once your bike is stolen then it'll be dismounted immediately or sold 500km away. I'm sure these thieves know how to hide and sell these bikes.
Mine two bikes were stolen last year even though we had CCTV everywhere. Nothing was seen on the tapes. Sad but true story.

feck sake lads

theres a new kid on the block that might just be the lock everyone wants and needs http://shop.nlock.ch/.

griffin100

sebphoto wrote: »

GPS tracker won't change anything as once your bike is stolen then it'll be dismounted immediately or sold 500km away. I'm sure these thieves know how to hide and sell these bikes.
Mine two bikes were stolen last year even though we had CCTV everywhere. Nothing was seen on the tapes. Sad but true story.

I know of at least one case where a GPS tracker designed to look and act like a small rear light was used to track and find a stolen bike. Google earth was able to show the exact garden shed in Fairview that the bike was in!

Surveyor11

Saw this online and was sorely tempted - http://www.integratedtrackers.com/GPSTrack/

I have my new bike locked out my back with an Abus City Chain Plus and another chain / lock shackle. I've no other way of securing it - I've tried to arrange the locks so a bolt cutters is too awkward to use. That's about all i can do. At the end of the day, if someone wan't it and has the right tools, they'll get it. It's about buying time at the end of the day and hoping they'll give up.

jpogorman

Hi,

I was out in Ballyhoura for the first time in months last Sunday. The following Wednesday night my shed was forced open and my 2008 Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Comp was the only item taken. It is a small size in Silver/Black. Exactly like attached photo only a little older looking. There can only be a small number of these in the country of a similar size and colour. I would appreciate it if anyone comes across one for sale that they let me know.

Thanks,
JP

Hulkamaniac

Hi All, my MTB was stolen last night (between 12 and 8am) from my garden shed. Its noticeable for the dropper seat post which wouldn't come stock with the bike. Thanks

Jordan537

Hulkamaniac: can i just ask where about are you living? cheers.

Jordan537

What scumbags... that is a lovely bike and i so hope you get it back. I had my Trek stolen a few months ago, its devastating.

Hulkamaniac

@Jordan537, Knocklyon.

Hulkamaniac

Cheers Jordan, yeah I'm pretty gutted, only got it in January..bad times.

Jordan537

What was the shed locked with? was the bike locked in the shed? was the door bolt screwed in or bolted in?

Hulkamaniac

Shed was locked with a big yale lock, just a bolt lock. I was keeping the bike in the house until recently...wil have to consider security if I get it back. What about yours - no sign of anything?

doctorsoma

I had my bike stolen from Inchicore on Monday afternoon. I’ve little hope of getting it back, but just to alert people in case it crops up anywhere. It was a:

· Ridley Orion
· Black, white and red carbon frame,
· Ultegra group set
· Fulcrum wheels
· Look pedals and bar tape

It was ripped of a roof rack. I left it alone for 5 minutes.

Thanks

ThisRegard

Can I ask what bike rack you had it attached to ?

feck sake lads

this bike theft is getting beyond a joke:mad: theres 30 pages on this thread on stolen bikes are the guards really taking this crime serious.

Ddinneny

Ddinneny wrote: »

It is a black and red Specialised Secteur
It was stolen from Dublin 11
It had shimano 105 groupsets and brakes specialized pro lite carbon forks.
Has any one seen or been offered this bike.

Thankfuly we recovered this bike today, It was advertised here

<snip> On Donedeal Mod Note - no linking to ad in question

Crow92

How did you recover it? Yourself or guards?

sled driver

Ddinneny wrote: »

Thankfuly we recovered this bike today, It was advertised here

<snip>

Nice to read a positive outcome to contrast to the traditional gloom of the stolen bikes thread.

Side Show Bob

Crow92 wrote: »

How did you recover it? Yourself or guards?

Myself and Ddinneny phoned the number advertised this morning at 9.30 and arranged to view the bike at 2pm at Woodies in Dublin 11, after seeing the pictures in ad we were both in no doubt that this was the actual bike in question,

The seller arrived and took the bike from his car, again we were in no doubt as we built the bike, and it's makeup was not a standard one

Ddinneny took it for a "short spin" to check the serial number, while he was gone I informed the seller that the bike was stolen from us and that he was on his way to Finglas Garda station on it.

The disappointed seller was unable to meet earlier that day as he was in college, but was very willing to follow me to the Garda station,

When we met up with the seller at the Garda Station, he said that he bought the bike in good faith at the Fairyhouse market for €250, the identification number had been poorly removed and a portion was remaining, but we had the receipts for all of the parts fitted.

All is well now and the bike has been returned to its owner, however it's worth mentioning that the bike was stolen 750m from Woodies in Dublin 11, isn't it a small, small world.

Mycroft H

Side Show Bob wrote: »

Myself and Ddinneny phoned the number advertised this morning at 9.30 and arranged to view the bike at 2pm at Woodies in Dublin 11, after seeing the pictures in ad we were both in no doubt that this was the actual bike in question,

The seller arrived and took the bike from his car, again we were in no doubt as we built the bike, and it's makeup was not a standard one

Ddinneny took it for a "short spin" to check the serial number, while he was gone I informed the seller that the bike was stolen from us and that he was on his way to Finglas Garda station on it.

The disappointed seller was unable to meet earlier that day as he was in college, but was very willing to follow me to the Garda station,

When we met up with the seller at the Garda Station, he said that he bought the bike in good faith at the Fairyhouse market for €250, the identification number had been poorly removed and a portion was remaining, but we had the receipts for all of the parts fitted.

All is well now and the bike has been returned to its owner, however it's worth mentioning that the bike was stolen 750m from Woodies in Dublin 11, isn't it a small, small world.

Delighted, well done.

How did the "seller" fare? Guards do anything?

manwithaplan

Side Show Bob wrote: »

he said that he bought the bike in good faith at the Fairyhouse market for €250

Assuming this is true, he must have recognised it as a 'bargain'. Can I ask at what price it was offered for sale online.

(I know markets are about getting good deals, sometimes to trade afterwards - I occasionally watch Bargain Hunt. I'm not claiming he did anything illegal but proof of purchase etc are kinda important.)

Hungrycol

Ddinneny wrote: »

Thankfuly we recovered this bike today, It was advertised here

<snip> On Donedeal Mod Note - no linking to ad in question

Jeebus, your heart must have been pounding when he took it out of his car! It would have taken a lot to restrain yourself from giving him a pounding too!

Tayto2000

feck sake lads wrote: »

this bike theft is getting beyond a joke:mad: theres 30 pages on this thread on stolen bikes are the guards really taking this crime serious.

Bike theft is definitely getting worse, the surge in cyclists has also grown the market for stolen bikes. High end bikes seem to getting targeted now as well.

It's also one of the hardest areas to police unless the thief can be caught in the act or filmed and even then the chancer of recovery is very slim - they change hands as quickly as possible. It's very hard to track or even identify stolen bicycles unless the owners have taken precautions like recording the serial number. I'm not sure, but I don't think it even goes onto the Garda Pulse system when reported stolen unless there's a serial number given by the owner - a description isn't enough.

Posting on a single thread on boards is probably no more than a long shot - 30 pages, arranged in no particular order with a mess of bikes on it is not the ideal basis for a database. The Gardai have started rolling out bicycle registration but again it depends on owners registering before a theft. There's a couple of private database schemes rolling (like bikeshepherd from kryptonite) but nothing national yet either.

Something like the NMPR in the UK is really what's needed to let Gardai tackle the problem properly.

meercat

manwithaplan wrote: »

Side Show Bob wrote: »

he said that he bought the bike in good faith at the Fairyhouse market for €250

Assuming this is true, he must have recognised it as a 'bargain'. Can I ask at what price it was offered for sale online.

(I know markets are about getting good deals, sometimes to trade afterwards - I occasionally watch Bargain Hunt. I'm not claiming he did anything illegal but proof of purchase etc are kinda important.)

<snip>Price: € 550

This is the text as it appeared in the add
Unwanted gift me hole
He knew well
Great to hear you got it back
Well done

Beasty

No more warnings - do not post any info that either directly links to or could be used to readily search for that ad, or any other ads you may suspect have stolen gear

Thanks

Beasty

meercat

Beasty wrote: »

No more warnings - do not post any info that either directly links to or could be used to readily search for that ad, or any other ads you may suspect have stolen gear

Thanks

Beasty

Sorry