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Hello. Yesterday at 16.10-16.15 my bike was cut off the lock and stolen from outside Scotmid in Polwarth. Plenty witnesses, no CCTV, police and insurance informed.
As you can see, it's hardly a high ticket item to sell on, nor are any of the parts in spectacular condition. The wheels,however are brand new and handbuilt so, I'll be looking for them on all available sites. More info later.
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Round corner from me so will keep eyes pealed. Seen a few lads roaming about Gorgie recently with bikes that look a bit expensive for wheelies outside McDonald's
Word on Mrs. C's Facebook is that a couple people have had the bikes stolen out the shed, but the thieves are young and loud. When disturbed, they've battered the owner.
I think the police office responsible for Merchiston is holding a meeting at one of the Community Councils about it. Fingers crossed for a huge haul before the end of the holidays.
I'll walk through Dalry, notorious hotbed of bike theft, on the way home for a week.
Just had an attempt on mine on Home Street and another stolen, police very quick and keen to respond as there's been a lot of thefts recently and they really want to catch them. Group of kids, one with red jacket and boltcutters, ran off towards the canal
Will keep eyes peeled, am about that area a lot
Hope you're alright.
I wasn't sure if the guy in the distance in red was riding my bike or not. He went up Polwarth towards Margiotta then I lost him.
I mentioned it in the crime report
So there's a theme there..
I didn't even see it, I came back just after and several members of the public had reported it to the police, some were still there, which was great. Hopefully caught on cctv anyway.
Soo tempting to set up a honey trap...
Where on Home St? I stay on Home St
corner of lochrin place, bike racks opposite the tattoo shop
I look out onto there. Pretty brazen. They'll certainly be coming over from Dalry via the canal
Sods. Will keep an eye out for it. Cycle between Gorgie and Corstorphine a lot.
Sad times.
I've been working at 160 Dundee Street (next to Victor Paris) for a bit, and had my Boardman CX Team nicked from the bike rack, in broad daylight, in view of about 20 folk inside the office. Couldn't get out quick enough to collar the little f*ckers.
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I've been working at 160 Dundee Street (next to Victor Paris) for a bit, and had my Boardman CX Team nicked from the bike rack, in broad daylight, in view of about 20 folk inside the office. Couldn't get out quick enough to collar the little f*ckers.
Was just about to post about the brazen thefts from the bike racks at 160, pretty bad for bikes getting stolen round this way at the mo
@fatmax - do you mind me asking how your bike was secured? I'm at 160 as well and am wondering if I need to beef up my bike security.
beef up my bike security.
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My lock was one of these and they didn't get through it on two attempts, though they were disturbed.
Pretty brazen
They know that at worst they've got a good half an hour before police turn up even if they are seen in the act. The more they do it the more they'll be pushing their luck though and they're obviously not very bright, there was a cctv camera right over them last night...
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Admittedly it was a fairly cheap (£20-30) cable lock. I'm only their temporarily and did question whether I'd need something beefier, but didn't think anyone would be so brazen to do it mid-afternoon in front of a load of folk the other side of the window. Hey ho, shouldn't have been so daft.
CCTV at 160 too, but so grainy as to be fairly useless...and not covering the end couple of railings where mine was. 🙁
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Useful to know - thanks fatmax.
Sorry to hear about your bike, will keep an eye out.
There have been a few attempted break-ins near to me in the past 2 weeks, South Edinburgh/Fairmilehead/Buckstone. Morningside seems like it is under constant siege too
Word on Mrs. C's Facebook is that a couple people have had the bikes stolen out the shed, but the thieves are young and loud. When disturbed, they've battered the owner.
Woke up at 1.30 last night having heard a group of lads, sounded more like some returning from a night out though.... hmm
Soo tempting to set up a honey trap...
It is, although is it legal?
There was a break in with bikes stolen from a garage in morningside last night.
I'd like to put a gps tracker on a bike and see where they are taken.
To add of my own experience, locked up with a kryptonite cable and gold level padlock by the cash machine below the security camera at Scotmid.
They just cut through the padlock. Have head several reports of them battering folk round the head with the bolt cutters if disturbed.
Hopefully only a matter of time before they're caught but if I lived in the area, I'd have the bike in the bedroom for now.
I was down in westernhailesna few weeks back and a yoof passed me on a yellow carbon Santa Cruz. Obv it was his and he hadn't stolen it (I was just too late to get a photo, there were a fair few high end bikes kicking around blatantly) also know that some turned up in muirhouse. I have an alarmed garage, bolted bikes to floor and angry dog with tight elastic band around its balls....
EDIt: I did also borrow massive set of bolt cutters from a hire place to break into my own shipping container, when I returned them the guy said they were the most stolen item !
The stories of people getting battered, especially with boltcutters must be Chinese whispers.
That's akin to armed robbery or GBH, and would at the very least be in the regional news, if not national.
The only relevance of the quality of the lock, is that it meets your insurance companies criteria tbh.
At Golden Rule for a pint, three lads under 16 go past on a Whyte 459 or similar and another on very new Giant XTC and another on a woman's Specialized.
What's going on man? Stolen bikes all around.
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Edit; Good point and good post Nobeer.
I dunno, a friend of a colleague got his jaw broken by neds while cycling past balgreen tram stop and that certainly didn't make the news.
Jim,was that back in May? That period was horrific. Cyclists getting bricked and mugged along the golf course.
Kids though
... What can you do.
Soo tempting to set up a honey trap...It is, although is it legal?
When I had an attempted theft of my bike I had a very good chat with the copper investigating. I said this and he said " we cannot suggest or condone it but any information you could bring us would be very welcome"
It would be perfectly legal to set up a bait bike and apprehend any thieves. You must however only use reasonable force in apprehending them but from what I have heard and seen the Edinburgh cops are quite lenient on this.
It was about three months ago so May would tally. I didn't know about any of this, I often see a group of kids with stolen bikes but the worst I've had is having to squeeze past them blocking the path and them saying "shit bike" etc
A lone female colleague was stopped and surrounded by a group of youths last week on the cycle path south of Drylaw too, they tried to take her bag off her but she escaped, that made me very angry as she wouldn't say boo to a goose. glupton formerly of this site has had several attempts to steal his bike off him on that cycle path too.
I've ridden that cycle path lots. Only one incident where a group of apprentice neds tried to block our path on the tandem - as we charged flat out at them screaming they scattered realising 9st of skinny ned v 25 stone of us and tandem at 25 mph was only going to have one outcome and it wouldn't be a good one for them.
yeah a tandem would scatter them like bowling pins
About that time Jim, at Carrick Knowe,where I was followed home by 8 "apprentice neds" bored children swinging golf clubs, the police were VERY clear that I shouldn't harm them in any way.
I am still unsure of how best to apply this advice.
Nice. I've always felt really safe in Edinburgh, apart from being chased by a bam with a knife and people always asking to fight me because I'm tall, but in the last year there's been increasingly nutty things happening to me or friends. I still think in general it's a pretty damn safe city though, but I'm increasingly tempted to get a helmet camera.
I'm in Midlothian as some of you know and we've had three attempts on our shed in the last year. The last was a few weeks ago and at 10am. Luckily the shed is like Fort Knox now so I'm not overly worried, the bikes go elsewhere if we are away for an extended period but its a pain sorting it after each failed attempt so I'll be getting an Asgard shed soon. But the cheek of the last attempt even shocked the police. I asked them about GPS trackers and they said they'd get straight on it if your bike was stolen and you knew where it was. I wasn't that convinced by the trackers I found online so haven't done anything about it.
The police have their hands tied to some extent, or are ****ing useless. Girl at work found her nicked bike on Gumtree (I'm still checking it for mine too). The guy that had nicked it had put it up for sale, along with 9 others on the same day. She approached the police and asked for help to get her bike back, and basically in the week it took them to get back with a definitive answer (that they couldn't do anything to help), it had been sold. They never got back in touch to say that they'd pursued the guy for the other bikes either. 🙁