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Does this look normal to you
- Thread starter classic33
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Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
Our stores are full to bursting with BSOs. A lot of folk are too idle to take them to a scrap dealer themselves, and it's now very difficult to legitimately sell scrap. We have literally hundreds of old bikes a year handed in as "found abandoned" bikes, which are very, very rarely claimed. Your average Joe cannot tell a decent bike from a rusting heap of abandoned crap, and so we get them handed in all the time. All the found bikes are sorted on a two monthly basis by a recycling project. They cannibalise any usable parts, and take away stuff that can be repaired and passed on to folk that need them. No-hopers are scrapped, and anything half-decent is sent to auction.
We get very few reports of stolen bikes, and those that are reported tend to be high end stuff anyway. When they are stolen owners tend to be able to describe them in detail
The few people who bother reporting bikes stolen from gardens tend to describe them as "Boys MTB, blue" with insufficient detail to match any of the hundreds of bikes "found", so recovery is unlikely. In this throwaway society a lot of people leave them out in gardens knowing that travelling scrap dealers will come and collect them and save them the bother of getting rid.
Looking at the pile in the photo, I would say there isn't a decent bike amongst them. If you say you saw a Giant Susser on the back, did you note what sort it was? Was it in decent fettle? Your alarm bells and Spidey Senses may have spotted the one decent bike that has been lifted in the process. Who did you tell?
We get very few reports of stolen bikes, and those that are reported tend to be high end stuff anyway. When they are stolen owners tend to be able to describe them in detail
The few people who bother reporting bikes stolen from gardens tend to describe them as "Boys MTB, blue" with insufficient detail to match any of the hundreds of bikes "found", so recovery is unlikely. In this throwaway society a lot of people leave them out in gardens knowing that travelling scrap dealers will come and collect them and save them the bother of getting rid.
Looking at the pile in the photo, I would say there isn't a decent bike amongst them. If you say you saw a Giant Susser on the back, did you note what sort it was? Was it in decent fettle? Your alarm bells and Spidey Senses may have spotted the one decent bike that has been lifted in the process. Who did you tell?
Donger
Convoi Exceptionnel
- Location
- Quedgeley, Glos.
Looks rather like how TNT delivered our bikes to the start of the London-Brighton ride.
The Jogger
Legendary Member
- Location
- Spain
I've seen the 16:30 out of Waterloo looking like that.
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classic33
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Reported on 101. We've had an increase in sheds broken into round here.
Whilst their just thrown in at the rear in that picture, those just behind the cab were neatly stacked & secured.
Reported on 101
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
It does sound suspicious if there were some decent ones in there as well. Are you still in Calderdale? There has been a spate of bike thefts on the Bradford side IIRC.
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classic33
Leg End Member
I know and I'm only a few miles from one of the local hotspots.
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
Most of them have been from sheds and garages though, and probably targeted. My advice is to keep your bike well secure, and set up privacy zones for Strava etc. Good on you for ringing the reg in.
raleighnut
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- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Sadly no and now Cyclemagic are no more, Simon there built the Tallbikes that toured the country.
