Motorbike thefts at Heathrow Airport Bike Parking
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Just a headsup - I just got back this morning with my wife to Terminal 4 after a long weekend and the grand prix in Barcelona, a great weekend all round.
Unfortunately, my R1250GS was not at the terminal 4 bike park when we got there, and we came home via taxi. I spoke to anyone I could find who have said "its happening a lot" and apparently at the Terminal 5 one as well
I have been parking my bikes at Heathrow for donkeys years - mainly Terminal 5 but occasionally terminal 3 and terminal 4 - it's always felt safe enough, and terminal 4 has bollards to stop cars going in, so whoever came and got it would have had to have been buzzed through....
Just watch out guys - seems a lot of it about.
Unfortunately, my R1250GS was not at the terminal 4 bike park when we got there, and we came home via taxi. I spoke to anyone I could find who have said "its happening a lot" and apparently at the Terminal 5 one as well
I have been parking my bikes at Heathrow for donkeys years - mainly Terminal 5 but occasionally terminal 3 and terminal 4 - it's always felt safe enough, and terminal 4 has bollards to stop cars going in, so whoever came and got it would have had to have been buzzed through....
Just watch out guys - seems a lot of it about.
idealstandard said:
Just a headsup - I just got back this morning with my wife to Terminal 4 after a long weekend and the grand prix in Barcelona, a great weekend all round.
Unfortunately, my R1250GS was not at the terminal 4 bike park when we got there, and we came home via taxi. I spoke to anyone I could find who have said "its happening a lot" and apparently at the Terminal 5 one as well
I have been parking my bikes at Heathrow for donkeys years - mainly Terminal 5 but occasionally terminal 3 and terminal 4 - it's always felt safe enough, and terminal 4 has bollards to stop cars going in, so whoever came and got it would have had to have been buzzed through....
Just watch out guys - seems a lot of it about.
Not that you should have to, but just out of interest, did it have a chain or some other lock on it ? I was in the T5 carpark at the weekend and thought the bike parking was in quite an open area, so anyone using a grinder would be fairly obvious. Not that it always bothers them...Unfortunately, my R1250GS was not at the terminal 4 bike park when we got there, and we came home via taxi. I spoke to anyone I could find who have said "its happening a lot" and apparently at the Terminal 5 one as well
I have been parking my bikes at Heathrow for donkeys years - mainly Terminal 5 but occasionally terminal 3 and terminal 4 - it's always felt safe enough, and terminal 4 has bollards to stop cars going in, so whoever came and got it would have had to have been buzzed through....
Just watch out guys - seems a lot of it about.
outnumbered said:
Not that you should have to, but just out of interest, did it have a chain or some other lock on it ? I was in the T5 carpark at the weekend and thought the bike parking was in quite an open area, so anyone using a grinder would be fairly obvious. Not that it always bothers them...
It had a heavy chain lock thru the rear wheel, and the handlebars were locked - it will have been carted away by several blokes into a van for sure.Terminal 4 car park is "more secure" given the bollards on entry - its crazy how brazen criminals are these days, and how little repercussions there seem to be.
There were two other chains cut near where mine was - perhaps others were taken at the same time. Really gutting, my only new thing ever (had it three years, just got back from a tour around Germany last week!)
Biker9090 said:
There is ZERO way this wasn't caught on cctv.
Precisely, there are 5 360 degree cameras under the bridge there at T4 directly above it, there are cameras over the bollards not to mention its a fekking airport and ULEZ cameras too, i don't think anyone gives a damn! I am sure my bike is in bits or on it's way overseas already, sadly. Had both my wife & I gear in there too.Panamax said:
"Inside job" springs to mind. Tip off your mates as to what's in there and turn a blind eye when the time comes.
Without a doubt this thought was the first into my mind - not hard to scope out the bike park for a nice enough bike that's been standing for a day, let someone know and give them the code, job done.idealstandard said:
Panamax said:
"Inside job" springs to mind. Tip off your mates as to what's in there and turn a blind eye when the time comes.
Without a doubt this thought was the first into my mind - not hard to scope out the bike park for a nice enough bike that's been standing for a day, let someone know and give them the code, job done.Marquezs Stabilisers said:
100%
Inside job or not they've obviously used tools - likely big, sharp, noisy tools. Either there is ZERO interest from plod or and the place isn't as secure as we're supposed to think.
How the HELL do you miss multiple people acting suspiciously around a vehicle at a bloody airport ffs.
They could have stopped this is seconds had they wanted to.
They used a portable angle grinder on my very expensive chain in a busy station carpark. The bike was right under and in view of CCTV.
The guys at the station couldn't even be arsed. Nor could the police.
Funny thing, a year later they caught the guy who nicked it. He'd racked up 3000 miles using my bike to rob others.
So the can't be bothered attitude just helped someone to commit more crime.
I've spent a lot of the last couple of years spending time in Spain. All the cities and towns I visited had so many maxi scooters and sports bikes parked up everywhere.
I swear that I did not see a single U lock, chain or disc lock.
That's what biking, for me, was like in the UK (London in my case) up to the late 90s.
The freedom to jump on your bike and go anywhere and be pretty sure it would where you had left it, without effing £200 quid chains, £200 alarmed disclocks and far more expensive trackers and alarms.
What the feck happened?
I used to live in SE25, London, early 90s. Had up to 3 bikes at any one time, including a beautiful Honda V4 400cc race rep and a GPz900R.
All left outside on steering locks only.
I miss the old days.
Only bike I had nicked back then was a brand new, just run in, CBR600F. That was in the South of France. It went with loads of others that night. Thieves with trucks.
My first experience of having a bike nicked. Never would have happened in England. This was 1988.
I'm so sorry for the OP. This country and it's continually rising crime statistics is really pizzing me off.
The guys at the station couldn't even be arsed. Nor could the police.
Funny thing, a year later they caught the guy who nicked it. He'd racked up 3000 miles using my bike to rob others.
So the can't be bothered attitude just helped someone to commit more crime.
I've spent a lot of the last couple of years spending time in Spain. All the cities and towns I visited had so many maxi scooters and sports bikes parked up everywhere.
I swear that I did not see a single U lock, chain or disc lock.
That's what biking, for me, was like in the UK (London in my case) up to the late 90s.
The freedom to jump on your bike and go anywhere and be pretty sure it would where you had left it, without effing £200 quid chains, £200 alarmed disclocks and far more expensive trackers and alarms.
What the feck happened?
I used to live in SE25, London, early 90s. Had up to 3 bikes at any one time, including a beautiful Honda V4 400cc race rep and a GPz900R.
All left outside on steering locks only.
I miss the old days.
Only bike I had nicked back then was a brand new, just run in, CBR600F. That was in the South of France. It went with loads of others that night. Thieves with trucks.
My first experience of having a bike nicked. Never would have happened in England. This was 1988.
I'm so sorry for the OP. This country and it's continually rising crime statistics is really pizzing me off.
Biker9090 said:
I can never understand this.
It must be one of the most heavily surveilled/policed areas in the country and this still happens frequently.
Bike thieves aren't exactly f
king suttle!
There is ZERO way this wasn't caught on cctv.
Heathrow has always been bad. There was a staff car park belonging to British Airways near Hatton Cross that was so bad for theft and break-ins that it was known as the 'car thief's supermarket'. When I worked in the central area back in the 1990's I would park in multi-storey car park 1A (gone now) and see cars left on baggage trolleys, 1 at each corner, and the wheels gone. The hotels round there are bad too. I once came out to find all 7 or 8 cars around mine broken into, but my old Astra sat in the middle completely ignored.It must be one of the most heavily surveilled/policed areas in the country and this still happens frequently.
Bike thieves aren't exactly f
king suttle! There is ZERO way this wasn't caught on cctv.
Biker9090 said:
I can never understand this.
It must be one of the most heavily surveilled/policed areas in the country and this still happens frequently.
Bike thieves aren't exactly fking suttle!
There is ZERO way this wasn't caught on cctv.
What if it was? Talk me through your investigation.It must be one of the most heavily surveilled/policed areas in the country and this still happens frequently.
Bike thieves aren't exactly f
king suttle! There is ZERO way this wasn't caught on cctv.
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