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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
That's over a quid less than legal.
Effective security is expensive. These teams don't yet have the funding for it. The sponsors will supply new bikes so it's only the logistics which cause problems.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
I never said that. I offered it as a reason why teams don't hire even minimal security guards.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Paid for by who? And how do you arrange it?
It'll be prohibitively expensive to have SIA approved staff permanently attached and following the team everywhere, and logistically awkward verging on impossible to arrange to have a diferrent one waiting at each venue and overnight stop.
As DC mentions, these teams are financially very lean. They have neither the finances to do all this, or the administrative staffing capacity (which also costs money) to arrange it.
Its simple to say, but there are significant challenges in practice.
classic33
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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
I never said it was okay or that no-one has lost out or anything close to that and it's not my view. Any time you find yourself telling someone else what their view is, especially completely unsupported by anything in their posts, you're making shoot up and have probably lost an argument.
That's a fair enough response. Thank you.
I am neither in the security industry nor the pro cycling world; I just assumed that pro bikes would be under guard and it was genuinely a surprise to me that they aren't. Now I understand better how it works. Every day's a school day and all that...
As a former hotelier, I've been asked and been happy with guests keeping their expensive bikes in their rooms overnight.
As long as they weren't dripping mud, grease etc., not an issue as far as I was concerned.
As long as they wiped their footwear when they came into the hotel, the guests could be chucked in their shower - !The guests or the bikes?
Rusty Nails
We remember
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- Living in the slow lane
These bike thefts beg the question, where would these bikes be sold?
They are obviously quite recognizable with reasonably high end equipment.
Are they pinched to order and shipped out of the country like high end vehicles?
They aren't exactly the sort of things that would be found on certain auction sites or the local markets
They are obviously quite recognizable with reasonably high end equipment.
Are they pinched to order and shipped out of the country like high end vehicles?
They aren't exactly the sort of things that would be found on certain auction sites or the local markets