"Second hand shop boneshaker" of the week

[Dec66]

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/sep/13/vuelta-bike-secondhand-sale-police-recover

 

[Accy cyclist]

"The bicycle had not yet been reported stolen because teams competing in the three-week Vuelta tour say they have not yet had time to call the police. However, investigators identified the machine as belonging to the Australian team Orica-GreenEdge"



It only takes a few minutes to phone the police. An eight grand bike means nothing to them. I bet the shop owner's kicking himself for not knowing what it was worth,.then he could've stuck it on e bay.

 

[classic33]

........The shop owner who tried to sell a stolen bike valued at 12,000euro for just 120 euro.
Spanish police find bike stolen from Simon Gerrans at Vuelta
http://road.cc/content/news/163944-spanish-police-find-bike-stolen-simon-gerrans-vuelta

 

[si_c]

Catch up there at the back

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/second-hand-shop-boneshaker-of-the-week.187520/

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Catch up there at the back

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/second-hand-shop-boneshaker-of-the-week.187520/

That thread was also a bit slow off the mark:
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/la-vuelta-a-espana-22-8-13-9-2015-here-be-spoilers.185045/page-39

 

[Brandane]

That thread was also a bit slow off the mark:
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/la-vuelta-a-espana-22-8-13-9-2015-here-be-spoilers.185045/page-39

To be fair, not everyone is interested in the "Pro cycling" board; me for one. In fact, I never look at it. Sometimes there is no harm in having cross threads when the subject bridges the gap.

 

[summerdays]

To be fair, not everyone is interested in the "Pro cycling" board; me for one. In fact, I never look at it. Sometimes there is no harm in having cross threads when the subject bridges the gap.

That is why I have merged the two threads together discussing this bike but not with the main race thread

 

[Globalti]

The team hadn't had time to report the theft?

More like they couldn't be bothered. Easy come, easy go.

 

[cyberknight]

Or embarrassed

 

[Tin Pot]

The team hadn't had time to report the theft?

More like they couldn't be bothered. Easy come, easy go.

Selling the inventory?

 

[Globalti]

I wonder how much other top end kit just vanishes at the end of the season? When you're surrounded by expensive stuff in large quantities you just become blasé about it.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

The team hadn't had time to report the theft?

More like they couldn't be bothered. Easy come, easy go.

Or embarrassed

Bit of both I suspect, they would rather swallow the loss quietly than advertise to opportunist thieves around the world that their security is inadequate.

I found when a victim of identity theft that the shops losing merchandise to the fake me wanted to sweep it under the carpet & put a couple of quid on the rest of the stock to recoup their losses from honest customers than admit to lax checking procedures and have every scrote with a cloned identity descend on them.