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

rubadub · 26-05-2020 12:16am

Burglars might be looking out for other stuff to rob these days.

I also noticed a few unlocked bikes outside shops, more than usual, its like people have become more trustworthy during this time, or maybe they are out & about on bikes they bought for exercise years back and do not even have locks.

MojoMaker · 26-05-2020 12:00pm

Bad luck anyway Thargor, horrible feeling.

Will you replace it? Several old beaters have changed hands here in the last couple of weeks.

iwillhtfu · 31-05-2020 9:10am

Recovered by AGS in kilkenny if anyone recognises it.

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Effects · 06-06-2020 9:24am

I found a woman's bike on the road outside my house this morning, in Clontarf.
If anyone is missing a bike in that area then send me a message to describe it.

magicbastarder · 06-06-2020 9:48am

might be an idea to just leave it inside the gates of the garda station?

Effects · 06-06-2020 11:22am

I'm slightly mistrusting of the cops. Found an expensive bike years ago and left it in with them. The owner responded to information I'd posted about it, and I told them I'd left it down to the Garda station. Then they couldn't find it at the Garda station when he tried to get it back.

I'm not trying to generalise about the Gardaí. I'm just going on my one experience with leaving a stolen bike into my local Garda station.

iwillhtfu · 06-06-2020 1:10pm

Effects wrote: »

I found a woman's bike on the road outside my house this morning, in Clontarf.
If anyone is missing a bike in that area then send me a message to describe it.

It would help to post a picture and you can always ask them to confirm the serial number on it.

Effects · 06-06-2020 5:48pm

iwillhtfu wrote: »

It would help to post a picture and you can always ask them to confirm the serial number on it.

Didn’t want to post a picture, as then someone who doesn’t own it knows what it looks like, and not that many people know their serial number.

Haven’t had any luck on the local area Facebook groups so I’m just going to drop it down to the Garda station.

Galway K9 · 07-06-2020 2:12pm

RobAMerc wrote: »

Some little pr*ck stole my bike from outside my house last night.

I cant for the life of me find the serial number ( and I am annoyed at myself for that )

For what its worth its a LaPierre Trek 200 as the picture says

Ah feck. Nice bike too. Keep an eye on FB groups selling stuff, done deal, and AGS FB for bikes recovered.

MojoMaker · 07-06-2020 2:13pm

Facebook Marketplace is a favourite haunt of bike thieves selling on stuff. Totally unregulated environment. Set up an alert maybe?

LollipopJimmy · 07-06-2020 7:19pm

Adverts too

neris · 15-06-2020 7:10pm

https://twitter.com/Kelfogarty/status/1272460802600112128?s=19

15-06-2020 7:53pm

No shortage of offers to help her get sorted with another one which is nice to see.

Seth Brundle · 29-06-2020 12:14pm

https://twitter.com/gardainfo/status/1277539396649136128

rubadub · 04-07-2020 3:18pm

https://twitter.com/conor_smith_dev/status/1279352460608446466

onlineweb · 04-07-2020 6:49pm

rubadub wrote: »

https://twitter.com/conor_smith_dev/status/1279352460608446466

That's terrible, I hope he gets it back.

Out of interest, it’s unusual that the bike was stolen so soon after he purchased it.

Did he share it on social media, Strava, Facebook, Twitter, etc.?

magicbastarder · 04-07-2020 7:30pm

should be easy enough to spot if the tyres aren't changes, it looks a bit odd in that configuration.

iwillhtfu · 04-07-2020 7:52pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

should be easy enough to spot if the tyres aren't changes, it looks a bit odd in that configuration.

Looks like one of those aftermarket battery kits, hub motor so different wheels. Probably the same setup as the one that caught fire in Dublin last week.

04-07-2020 7:56pm

Yeah it's a Carrera Kraken from Halfords. Definitely an aftermarket job. I've seen a few around, oddly all the same bike.

peneau · 24-07-2020 6:50pm

2016 Canyon Spectral Full Suspension Mountain Bike, Black Stealth colour. Stolen overnight from home in Sandymount, Dublin, distinctive looking bike not too many of them about if anyone sees it when moving about perhaps you might give a shout out here. Crestfallen young Son at home. Many Thanks

Type 17 · 25-07-2020 2:52pm

An acquaintance of mine had this stolen from his home* in Donnybrook a few weeks ago, and has asked me to post this on here

The frame number is known, and has been reported to the Gardai.
Trek Rail 9.8 GX, size large, has an AXA front headlight and KLS pedals fitted.

Edit: *opportunistic theft - was left on a car-mounted bike rack for a short time, in view of the road (not a smart move).

MojoMaker · 25-07-2020 4:12pm

For the last two posters who mention "stolen from home" - can you be more specific? e.g. Stolen from inside a locked house, swiped from the garden shed, pinched from the side of the house etc.

Rotten luck both.

iwillhtfu · 25-07-2020 4:17pm

At around €7.5k I certainly hope that Trek was kept inside a house. That would be a very bitter pill to swallow and a beauty of a bike. On the upside I can't imagine there are many about.

peneau · 26-07-2020 10:35am

MojoMaker wrote: »

For the last two posters who mention "stolen from home" - can you be more specific? e.g. Stolen from inside a locked house, swiped from the garden shed, pinched from the side of the house etc.

Rotten luck both.

In my case the bike was taken in the early hours of Friday morning last. The culprit climbed my bolted and locked side gate the bike was under a weather cover removed that from the bike and made off with the bike. I live in Sandymount. Circa 04:30 a neighbours security camera picked up a white transit type van heading up an adjacent road the "wrong" way (a one way street)

MojoMaker · 26-07-2020 8:50pm

Are you saying your bike was outside your house and unlocked?

Scummy knackers - any chance they could have seen you returning home some day with the bike and "marked" you?

peneau · 26-07-2020 9:15pm

In the back garden locked under a weather cover. I do indeed suspect they knew it was there my young Son who uses the bike more than me, may very well have been seen on it although he hadn't used it in about a week, the bike was purchased for mountain biking in Ticknock, Ballinastoe etc. My own banger of a racer 90's vintage Falcon was unlocked in the same area of the garden they left it, part of me feels highly insulted !

Seth Brundle · 27-07-2020 12:11pm

https://twitter.com/Caolanmcaree/status/1287327977257283584?s=19

iwillhtfu · 27-07-2020 12:27pm

Seth Brundle wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Caolanmcaree/status/1287327977257283584?s=19

Saw that this morning seems there's two camps fair play to him and now another guy is experiencing what the original owner felt.

Thargor · 27-07-2020 12:36pm

Saw that all over Reddit and a couple of other places, thought it was in the US.

LollipopJimmy · 27-07-2020 12:56pm

Seth Brundle wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Caolanmcaree/status/1287327977257283584?s=19

Mine was better, meeting the guy selling it on adverts and taking it from him. The look of fear in his face was priceless

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