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So a week or 2 ago someone tried to break into my garage during the night - luckily I had too much crap behind the door they tried so they could only the door open about a foot and gave up. I’ve reinforced the security quite a bit already and have some further ‘modifications’ to make.
Tonight about 6pm some lads broke into the next door neighbours garage door on the front of the house - which is lit up like Blackpool illuminations with downlights etc. They neighbour had popped out for half an hour so the house must have been watched.
The neighbour has one of those fancy metal roller doors with an electric motor and the chavs have made a massive mess of it - they got it up about a foot or just over and managed to get a bike out underneath (Cube Nuroad I think - maybe £800 worth).
Doesn’t bode well - Bristol seems to be rife with bikes being stolen at the moment.
Bike theft has always been rife in Bristol hasn’t it? Years ago a lad I knew had his DH bike stolen from his garage. Upgraded security, replaced bike and it happened immediately again....... then again. Then the realised that a hole had been drilled in the garage wall so they could check when he’d got another bike in! He then started putting it in the loft in the house
Brizzle has always been a hotshot for bike/general crime.
Then the realised that a hole had been drilled in the garage wall so they could check when he’d got another bike in! He then started putting it in the loft in the house
Wow, that is brazen! Not sure quite as much as breaking into a garage whilst people are generally about in the street though. Worrying really - we’re not in what I’d class as a dodgy area - just general middle of the road sort of area. Kingswood is next door though and Cadbury Heath not too far away either.
I think I need to accelerate the other bits of security I was planning this weekend.
Which part of Bristol Joe?
why can’t bike thieves just go and get a f job ffs and make do with the xmas benefit bonus jeese!
burn them alive is what I say
My neighbour had the same happen with their garage, door bent open, at 7pm on a Thursday evening. The van belonging to an electrician that parks on our road was done over at 10.30am on a Monday morning.
Seems very strange the timing of these crimes. Bristol really is terrible for this stuff.
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Which part of Bristol Joe?
Hanham, which is normally a reasonable sort of area - but perhaps not anymore!
why can’t bike thieves just go and get a f job ffs and make do with the xmas benefit bonus jeese!
burn them alive is what I say
Too right - the guy next door is away with work so it’s just his wife and 2 kids there at the moment so she’s probably not feeling too great about it. I said I’d help today if she wants to try and secure it somehow. She’s been quoted £200 to board it up until someone can get out to replace the door - could probably do it a lot cheaper popping to b&q and getting some stud timber and board.
I would have thought home insurance covers putting break in damage right
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It should - but with my garage doors they are old up and over ones and so if I’d claimed on insurance for one I’d have had to pay myself to get a matching one for the other one. Plus then home insurance premiums would no doubt be a stinger next year. Luckily mine wasn’t damaged beyond repair and I don’t use them to go in and out so I’m going fairly heavy on ways to keep that door shut short of someone smashing through the wooden body of it and climbing between the metal frame.....and then defeating 3 big chains all whilst the alarm is going off.
The neighbours roller door looks like a right off to me - it’s twisted and mangled horribly. So will be an insurance job but I have a feeling it cost £1000-£1500 to buy and fit, plus then there’s the bike claim for £800 that was also stolen. So that’s going to hit premiums next year but with that cost it’s worthy claiming.
Horrible experience that I know all too well.
I used to be just down the road in LWG, I was (and still am) constantly paranoid about people seeing any bikes around the house, I always tried to get them through the side gate as quickly as possible.
A lot of these break-ins seem to be targeted.
In my new house I have installed a split opening door, seems a lot more secure then the last up and over I had. I still park my van right up against the garage door (I don't use it that much so it blocks the door most of the time). I tend to use the garage side door.
I was chatting to a neighbour here in our new house who belongs to my cycling club and he had all of his bikes cleared out a few years ago.
When we had ours taken the police who attended said that most bike thefts are targeted. We knew we had been seen unloading from our Alps trip but couldn't work out how they knew when to come back. My car was very rarely used, 500 miles a year, and the broke in when I took it out to put some fuel in.
Broke in during the afternoon whilst my daughter was in and even the alarm going off didn't deter them. CCTV confirmed that they were the same lads who had seen us on the Sunday were the same ones 2 days later even down to clothes and trainers.
Roller door was busted in a few seconds
Bikes were never recovered and nobody caught for it.
Wasn't till 4 months later we found out that one of their relatives had moved into rented accommodation a couple of weeks before the theft about 400 metres away from our house and had a clear view to our garage from his front window.
Had mine nicked in Yate in June, not a peep of them or bits off them that are recognisable.
Adding to what I posted earlier (although I am in a completely different area), I had 8 bikes stolen back in August. 6 were mine plus 2 family members bikes. I also had my spares and tools stolen.
A neighbour also had 1 bike stolen and another local garage they ignored the cheap bikes but stole a nice set of wheels.
The police reckon they filled a van and drove straight to a shipping container to send abroad. Which backs up the fact of no sign of anything since.
Worryingly the police also warned they often try again a few months later after people restock after an insurance payout.
Sad times ☹️
Keep hearing about shipping abroad, but where is the real money in that, the likes of the US are pretty hot on imports, and I can’t see many countries paying much for top end bikes.
The sad thing is that it’s now just treated as a non crime, if they ever find the criminals it tends to be tiny fines or time served sentences, you nick 2k from a shop with a hammer in your hand you’ll get years, you nick 10k worth of bikes from a residential property and you’ll get a suspended sentence