STOLEN IN LIVERPOOL - PLEASE HELP!

STOLEN IN LIVERPOOL - PLEASE HELP!

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ChemicalChaos

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10,360 posts

159 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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STOLEN - LIVERPOOL.
Blue Pinnacle Peak Mountain BIke. White pedals and rear mudguard. Bomber front forks, road tyres and frame bag. M-Part handlebars with white grips and white Exo brakes.
Left locked up in the bike racks outside the University Central Teaching Labs this morning. According to university security, this bit is not covered by any cameras banghead

Reward for any information that leads to successful reclamation! Whoever took this knows exactly what they were looking at, because to any casual observer the bike looks like a filthy, battered wreck



Benmac

1,465 posts

215 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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I work in bootle (for my sins). I often see people riding around on MTBs that look far too decent for them IYSWIM. I'll keep my eyes peeled.

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Cant really help as I am in Bristol but if the security cameras dont cover bicycle racks I'd be writing a stty letter to the Dean of the University asking why.

AB

16,969 posts

194 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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ChemicalChaos said:
STOLEN - LIVERPOOL
Not the first time... won't be the last!!

Wacky Racer

38,099 posts

246 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Bikes are vulnerable anywhere, especially in inner cities, rather unfair to single out Liverpool.

Anyone with an expensive bike would be well advised to consider theft insurance, you wouldn't drive a car worth 2k without it.

Fugazi

564 posts

120 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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There are safer places on campus to leave your bikes, but I don't risk it and take mine behind a swipe access door with me and leave it in a store room. Heard about too many that either get stolen or attempted and damaged. Also join the Liverpool Uni Cycling Facebook page and post on there too.

Edited by Fugazi on Friday 21st November 19:40

bulldog5046

1,495 posts

177 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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pablo said:
Cant really help as I am in Bristol but if the security cameras dont cover bicycle racks I'd be writing a stty letter to the Dean of the University asking why.
Wouldn't do anything, I know!

Mine was stolen from Bath Spa uni a couple of months ago. Another case of no camera coverage. I kicked up a real stink as I work there and all I managed to get was that camera's would be installed as a priority. They haven't.

When I ride in now mine and my colleagues bikes are locked way in a comms room. We did this previously and H&S told us they couldn't be inside but they can f'off now.

ChemicalChaos

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10,360 posts

159 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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Thanks guys. The uni will indeed be getting a stty letter, as will Abus for the poor design of their lock. Looking at the cut remains of the lock, there is a massive weak spot where the armoir shells taper away before the internal cable runs into the combination lock part.
The next lock I get will be one of these proper, angle grind proof HD motorbike chains, methinks.
The bike was insured luckily. However, the company want to offer me a like for like replacement bike and bolt on upgrades rather than just cash. Their opening offer (I can apparently switch the brand/model of replacents as long as they are the same or cheaper cost) is a new Specialised Hardrock with 80mm lockout Suntours and factory hydros, then the DMR pedals, lock on grips and mudguard pack as bolt-ons.
Is the Hardrock any good or should I ask to swap to something different? The one thing I loved about the Pinnacle was that it was built like a tank - and I'd like a similarly robust replacement.

godzilla84

148 posts

179 months

Sunday 28th December 2014
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AB said:
Not the first time... won't be the last!!
actually..... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1193133/Li...

Laurel Green

30,770 posts

231 months

Sunday 28th December 2014
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godzilla84 said:
Article said:
And according to the figures it seems Liverpool has come top of the honesty table with thieves waiting four hours to steal a bike.
Would be interesting to know at what time of day this experiment was carried out. wink


yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Sunday 28th December 2014
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Laurel Green said:
godzilla84 said:
Article said:
And according to the figures it seems Liverpool has come top of the honesty table with thieves waiting four hours to steal a bike.
Would be interesting to know at what time of day this experiment was carried out. wink
Would be interesting to see the experiment repeated with locked bicycles wink

Reading between the lines, the 'lures' were not secured, so they were far more likely to be "wheeled away", as the Mail put it, eventually, than if they were properly locked up. Maybe the bike thieves in Liverpool are just better at spotting junior reporters with stopwatches?

It'd be nice to see this kind of operation mounted by Police forces, with tracking devices and prosecutions to back up the results. Tracking stolen bikes would highly likely lead officers to lockups full of stolen bikes, or the component parts thereof.