Gentleman Burglar Cyclist

[hoopdriver]

I see this former city trader and cyclist managed to commit 130 burglaries while getting about Hampshire on his bicycle, always leaving his victims homes neat and tidy. What a chap.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...arried-100-burglaries-mostly-bicycle-leaving/

Wonder how he came undone? Recording his rides on Strava?

 

[Hugh Manatee]

Send him around here. I haven't got a lot worth stealing and the house is a mess.

 

[davidphilips]

Dont know how he came undone but to me he is no gentleman and tbh a bit surprised at the press calling him as one as his actions have caused a lot of pain and loss.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

No such thing as a ‘gentleman thief’. Just thieving gits.

 

[FishFright]

No such thing as a ‘gentleman thief’. Just thieving gits.

Except Raffles on 1970's TV of course.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Except Raffles on 1970's TV of course.

And David Niven’s character on The Pink Panther.

 

[PK99]

I see this former city trader and cyclist managed to commit 130 burglaries while getting about Hampshire on his bicycle, always leaving his victims homes neat and tidy. What a chap.

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Don't you mean what a b*stard?

Have you ever been burgled? We have twice, on both occasions we were asleep upstairs. The second time with 2 small kids upstairs as well.

On another occasion I interrupted a guy trying to break in when I returned home in the middle of the day.

Burglary is not something to joke about or take lightly.

 

[hoopdriver]

I was burgled last week chum. It's called irony. Try a little. It's good for your blood.

 

[Nibor]

He'd have only got 3 years if he wasn't a cyclist lol

 

[Blue Hills]

Doesn't say what his bike was. Possible that that's how he was caught? It would rather help to identify him unless he had a stable of them. So not necessarily that clever, gent or not.

 

[PeteXXX]

As if the New Forest residents need another reason to dislike cyclists!

 

[Randomnerd]

Someone at the Telegraph may have a Raffles fixation https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wo...gentleman-cat-burglars-guide-to-thievery.html
Anyone have opinions on the best bike for a burglar? Would you be looking at a touring frame do you think, with low trail geometry, for packing all that silver? or perhaps a gravel bike, to help with those sections across fields?
@hoopdriver Is wrinkly the opposite of irony?

 

[hoopdriver]

Definitely a low trail touring frame and - since we're being old-school here, the gentleman burglar - one of those classic Gilles Berthoud boxy bar bags, the kind in which you would normally carry a cold chicken and bottle of cabernet sauvignon for your roadside picnic. It would be large enough to carry away the silver and the jewellery. I think 650B wheels - again, strictly old school - with tyres wide enough for the gravelly bits. Definitely Marathon-Plus tyres - suffering a flat whilst taking your getaway is very, well, shall we say, deflating.

Mudguards of course - no sense getting a muddy stripe up the backs of our tweed jackets. It can make one stand out in the line-up afterwards...

 

[hoopdriver]

[QUOTE 5167336, member: 45"]I think he should have his "cyclist" title legally removed as well.[/QUOTE]
Along with his gonads...

 

[Bonefish Blues]

A gentleman thief should ride a Dursley Pederson, shirley?