Violent bicycle mugging
- Thread starter siadwell
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Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
I have never experienced anything like this, but I tend to stick to busy, well lit, main roads.
I would feel more vunerable cycling through say a city park after dark.
But then again my bike doesnt look very cool and isnt too expensive so I'm probably not their ideal target. The chap on a £2,000 MTB is far more likely to be targeted than I am on my £500 Trek hybrid with full mudguards!!
I would feel more vunerable cycling through say a city park after dark.
But then again my bike doesnt look very cool and isnt too expensive so I'm probably not their ideal target. The chap on a £2,000 MTB is far more likely to be targeted than I am on my £500 Trek hybrid with full mudguards!!
BentMikey
Rider of Seolferwulf
- Location
- South London
I remember reading about Burgess Park assaults in C+ days, but that was a long time ago. I still can't imagine why you'd want to ride through a park at night when there are perfectly good roads available to use...
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Not myself, ever, but we had a guy at a previous employers who got to work one morning and he told us on the way to work he'd been approached by a scruffy looking guy who hailed him, asking the time. He didnt like the look of him and made his way round at a safe distance...and the guy started swearing and waving a metal bar of some kind.
He said...i dread to think what'd have happened if i'd stopped. (this happened in a remote'ish area away from houses etc)
He said...i dread to think what'd have happened if i'd stopped. (this happened in a remote'ish area away from houses etc)
me too. I'm afraid the design of the park is almost set up for assaults. I'd not want to walk across it at night. (see also Green Link over Mile End Road)
Zoiders
New Member
- Location
- Ice Station Zebra
Robbery is robbery of course but I this section of the of the article has me scratching my head.
"Lee Robson from Cheltenham had a £2,000 mountain bike stolen last month, and is still recovering from the injuries he sustained trying to stop the thief.
He was unlocking his front door with his bike leaning against his hip when a man snatched it from him and ran.
"It was a bit brazen. I ended up chasing him down the road. I don't think he'd thought I'd really come at him that fast," he said.
In the chase he fell and was injured, badly cutting his legs, hand and knees.
"I'm not sure what would have happened if I'd managed to get hold of him. This guy had probably seen me with it at the pub. He must have been right behind me all the way. That's very calculating."
You can't blame the victim but making yourself a target by flashing the conspicous wealth in the wrong places is not in your interest either.
"Lee Robson from Cheltenham had a £2,000 mountain bike stolen last month, and is still recovering from the injuries he sustained trying to stop the thief.
He was unlocking his front door with his bike leaning against his hip when a man snatched it from him and ran.
"It was a bit brazen. I ended up chasing him down the road. I don't think he'd thought I'd really come at him that fast," he said.
In the chase he fell and was injured, badly cutting his legs, hand and knees.
"I'm not sure what would have happened if I'd managed to get hold of him. This guy had probably seen me with it at the pub. He must have been right behind me all the way. That's very calculating."
You can't blame the victim but making yourself a target by flashing the conspicous wealth in the wrong places is not in your interest either.
Black Sheep
Guru
- Location
- Rammy
I got mugged for my bike many years ago now under the elephant (sports centre) in coventry.
he was walking back and forth in the middle of the road so I turned to go the other way, his mate was behind me
didn't manage to get past, claimed to have no cash on me and that my phone was an old nokia not worth looking at (why would you ask to 'look' at someone's phone?)
one of the guys was holding the handlebars, the other got round behind and grabbed the back wheel, started pulling it sideways so I decided to drop the bike and let them take it - as you say, it's just a bike
they didn't touch me despite the one with the bike shouting to 'biff him and hurry up' to which I replied 'you've got what you want, just go'
I ran home, scaled the fence of my halls of residence as I didn't want to even go round the corner (first corner on my route that I couldn't see round before turning) and dialed 999 etc.
Found that bike outside a house round the corner from my new house a few years later.
a year or so later I was riding up into the city centre and a group of youths were sat on some stairs who shouted something as I passed, I turned into a side street and started increasing speed to find someone walking in the middle of the road, no way am I stopping, I aim at him and continue to pedal (it's not a narrow road, my gran could cross it in less than a minute!) and move my hands from covering my brakes to over the ends of my bars (I'm able to reach my brakes and hydraulic disc brakes would have stopped me with that little effort but he doesn't know that)
he looses at chicken, I go on my way.
thankfully it's just taxi's and busses I have to contend with (hit a bus today) these days
he was walking back and forth in the middle of the road so I turned to go the other way, his mate was behind me
didn't manage to get past, claimed to have no cash on me and that my phone was an old nokia not worth looking at (why would you ask to 'look' at someone's phone?)
one of the guys was holding the handlebars, the other got round behind and grabbed the back wheel, started pulling it sideways so I decided to drop the bike and let them take it - as you say, it's just a bike
they didn't touch me despite the one with the bike shouting to 'biff him and hurry up' to which I replied 'you've got what you want, just go'
I ran home, scaled the fence of my halls of residence as I didn't want to even go round the corner (first corner on my route that I couldn't see round before turning) and dialed 999 etc.
Found that bike outside a house round the corner from my new house a few years later.
a year or so later I was riding up into the city centre and a group of youths were sat on some stairs who shouted something as I passed, I turned into a side street and started increasing speed to find someone walking in the middle of the road, no way am I stopping, I aim at him and continue to pedal (it's not a narrow road, my gran could cross it in less than a minute!) and move my hands from covering my brakes to over the ends of my bars (I'm able to reach my brakes and hydraulic disc brakes would have stopped me with that little effort but he doesn't know that)
he looses at chicken, I go on my way.
thankfully it's just taxi's and busses I have to contend with (hit a bus today) these days
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
I had about 10 teenagers on bikes surround me and a friend whilst we where at some dirt jumps.
One of them had just stacked on the first jump and I said 'ouuuch that must have hurt' and they all ganged up on me and started saying he has some disease and i shouldn't have taken the piss out of him.
Said the usual sorry and one of them put his legs between my front wheel to stop me from going anywhere and another punched me in the helmet (LOL). I had enough at that point and i just lifted my bars into the guys groin, he fell to the floor and i rode over him. My mate pushed a few out of the way and we both cycled off.
One of them had just stacked on the first jump and I said 'ouuuch that must have hurt' and they all ganged up on me and started saying he has some disease and i shouldn't have taken the piss out of him.
Said the usual sorry and one of them put his legs between my front wheel to stop me from going anywhere and another punched me in the helmet (LOL). I had enough at that point and i just lifted my bars into the guys groin, he fell to the floor and i rode over him. My mate pushed a few out of the way and we both cycled off.
Banzaibuddy
New Member
I rode through church rd estate in harlesden and a kiddie tried to deck me off my vespa. I noticed his swinging fist just in time to swerve it. Never had trouble on my bike but I don't think they'd mind nicking a nice pushbike if you were daft enough to ride through.
jefmcg
Guru
One of our neighbours' kids was mugged for his bike in Hounslow. No actual violence or explicit threat, just a bunch of teens saying "we're having your bike".
I don't think it was a valuable bike, his mother's only concern was the emotional damage the kid had taken.
Wrong place? At his front door, or at a pub where he was clearly able to keep an eye on it and was presumably with friends?
I don't think it was a valuable bike, his mother's only concern was the emotional damage the kid had taken.
Wrong place? At his front door, or at a pub where he was clearly able to keep an eye on it and was presumably with friends?
abo
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Stockton on Tees
I used to think that when I drove an old B-reg 1.0 litre Nova. It got nicked one night when were were out clubbing and it was my turn to be the driver. It was found halfway to the next town after it had ran out of petrol in the middle of nowhere (GOOD!!!!!), police reckon some scrote pinched it as an easy target (they were sooo easy to break into, I worked out how after I kept locking the keys in it...) to get home after a night on the town.
So an easy snatch on a Halfords £90 special could still happen if someone just needs a ride quick and doesn't care how they get it...
abo
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Stockton on Tees
They worry me much more than a more adult attacker tbh. I know for a fact I've a good chance of putting down a single attacker and I'm certain I could defend myself against a couple of guys. But that mob of youths bent on causing you harm, tricky to deal with...
edit: so many typos
