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Stolen from the Yorkshire bridge at 5:45 by the chap on foot
Ohlins and custom linkage. Fairly unique
Gutted for you.
Well about 5 people have given the same name of a kid who lives about 300m away. Currently sitting outside his house waiting for him to take the dog for a walk.
Mate I’d just phone the police and tell them I seen him going into the house with it. If they pitch and up and search the house and find it then great if it’s not there then you can just say you must’ve been mistaken.
+1 for calling the rozzers,
Good luck, hope you get it back and the little scrote gets his collar felt.
Derbyshire constabulary? If you can get a crime reference number for the insurance company, you've done well. Doubt anyone would attend today, by which time, your bike is long gone.
Is this the first live surveillance thread? I hope you get it back.
I know someone who lives in the cottages on the left heading in to Bamford and I’m pretty sure he has CCTV on the front of his house. If you need more footage let me know and I’ll ask him.
Spoken to TJ I have full CCTV. A blue Octavia vrs 57JSY at 5:30 and the thief. Hopeful police bother with ANPR. The stakeout was called off for wrong Intel
please share
He couldn't close the boot with it in so may have stashed it.
I’ve put it on Ride Sheffield for you. Definitely pursue the cops as a partial registration must be traceable.
Many thanks. There's anpr all over.
Came via Hathersage as I back track him via cctv
Did he break into your car or did you just leave it for a moment? Also have a look for local stolen bikes groups on Facebook, the one in Cambridge is very active. Often names and addresses of thieves being posted, fingers crossed one of them will get a “slap” soon.
We were sitting outside not 5m away and he snuck up the steps and took it from behind us. Some balls
Aye, pretty bloody bold. How did they break the locks ?
It wasn't locked because it was literally behind us. He could see us when he took it. We had our backs to the bikes never expecting them to go as we were there.
Victim blaming?
me? no (not intentionally anyway) - had assumed he'd at least have snapped something off and that'd have made a noise too, is all
Wow! That is brazen, I’m very careful but think I’d even leave unlocked if that close. Have you got it registered on bike registar that way if it turns up at a bike shop they should alert you.
A blue Octavia vrs 57JSY at 5:30 and the thief. Hopeful police bother with ANPR
Doesn't belong to a Skoda, regardless of what the prefix is.
It doesn't?!
Are you sure it’s a 57 not a 67 plate?
Pretty sure it's the right shape
I’m struggling to reconcile a scrote like that having a car like that legally…
#BookByItsCover
It's a pre-facelift model, they're getting old now so pretty affordable even without supplementing your income with crime.
Thule Touring box on the roof. Why?
Thule Touring box on the roof. Why?
Use a box on ours when we go on holiday because not every to big fits in the boot with an adult GSD. Also have 3 kids
Yes, I meant why does he have it on the roof?
Police just rang. No partial match on anpr or that colour or model octavia triggered anything. Case closed
Cars knicked that’s why.
Find it hard to believe given just how much our movements are recorded.
Be a different story if you were a golfing or lodge buddy if the PCC or Chief Constable
Just hoping someone in Hathersage has a full plate and they'll reopen the case
Google says this appeared on Gumtree in Newcastle 20 hours ago, but it's now been removed. Photos however are from "ebayimg", and it's not on eBay now either.
Missing offside-front headlight washer cover and lower air dam portion. Santa Cruz stickers on the boot. Rear wiper missing. There's also a woman (same one?) sat in the Audi in the background.
Police just rang. No partial match on anpr or that colour or model octavia triggered anything. Case closed
How much of the plate did you tell them? I’d just give them ****JSY if you’re not sure. I had this with a fail to stop when a van crashed in to my parked car outside my house. I got one character wrong but police initially closed it with no match. I then spent an hour on the DVLA checker trying all combinations and eventually got it. Police then reopened it and charged and fined the bloke.
Of course if it is false plates then you’ve no chance but don’t give up just yet. Get the name and number of a policeman who they allocated it to and hassle them.
It didn't even get allocated. The switchboard officer ran it said nothings come up and closed it
Photos I posted above were taken outside "The Fone Shop", 5 St Anthony's Rd (got it from the piece of phone number). They have CCTV on that spot.
I'm confused about the above? How's it fit?
It's the same car and colour. It has some distinguishing features that you could cross-check against your CCTV if you have more angles. It appeared for sale on the day of theft but today has disappeared. There is a woman present both at the theft and in that photo. The stickers indicate an MTB interest. No it's not a robust lead but it's something. Also it's uninsured and has been untaxed since 15 July.
Sweet I'll take a look. Mine has stickers on rear quarter window
<Considers new job as a criminal if cops genuinely DNGAF>
(yeah I know it’s a gov policy / austerity thing).
Hate bike thieves.......
I think it is but you’ll have to be quick so he doesn’t move it on.
Definitely the same fella in they pics
I really hope you've not got the wrong guy. But if you have then I hope he gets all that's coming to him.
Would the police be more interested if the theft was a handbag or shop till or a car?
Would the police be more interested if the theft was a handbag or shop till or a car
Petty theft innit. £8,000 of petty theft. It really sucks being a cyclist in the UK 🙁
OP. Those two pics are definitely the same person. Have you got a plan because you you need to be fast. No idea how many people use STW, but I doubt they are all angels. It also comes up high on Google for many things so the chances of your man seeing this thread aren't ifinitisimally small.
There's certainly a strong resemblance, not sure I'd be comfortable saying that they're *definitely* the same person, though.
Would the police be more interested if the theft was a handbag or shop till or a car?
We had some cops pull up in the village issuing parking tickets, I went out and asked them to look at cctv of some shoplifters, they couldn't because they were "too busy"
Two random people giving same name. One of which said that car will be on fake plates... Sure enough stw was right
👊
Hope you catch the bastard red handed 👍
Hope you get your bike back.
Do you have a photo of the guy with your bike?
Full CCTV of the act
Good luck OP
Just seen your update on Ride Sheffield @wysiwyg, hope you get it sorted. I’d be inclined to have the cops deal with it or at least present if you do decide to go round…
Would the police be more interested if the theft was a handbag or shop till or a car?
If it was Boris Johnsons cheapo runabout they'd probably have it located in a matter of hours, or go round team handed if anyone reported a single individual as being seen with it.
I’ll just leave this here.
As Kryten once said “smug mode engaged”
wow - did you get it back as well ? RESULT !
Alas no, but ever the optimist.
Getting this far was quite a feat.
Could you summarise please, for those of us without facebook? Genuinely interested.
@wysiwyg are these the perps or are you just thrilled to see bike thieves taken down?
Good news all the same! But the raid on Snakeskin in Saddleworth just shows the crims expending yet more effort on nicking posh bikes.
Non-facebookists
Long story short, initially the police weren’t interested as the skoda was on false plates. So I tracked him down, the car above was his everyday driver, the police actually did something with the huge amount of info I gave and conducted a sting and raid.
Good on you for persevering.
Shame the police were so utterly pathetic before that.
Well done dude I’ll buy you a pint!
wysiwyg - good on you!
Shame on police - until they acted on your information; their fb post is, unsurprisingly, presented as all their own work but you did all the legwork.
Next step - will there be a prosecution and what (unduly lenient) sentence will they get?
I am not the only person who now has to say no comment as i know a posse of thieves keep on eye on various fb groups looking for bikes. So maybe on here. Ongoing case etc.
Just very glad someone got done and the police are pushing hard
Just very glad someone got done and the police are pushing hard
Are they? By the sounds of it, you handed them the info on a plate that they couldn't simply ignore.
I mean, it's great and well done for doing it. But do the police deserve any credit?
They’re pushing the CPS hard should I say. Now there’s an officer specifically to keep him in.
Great news & very well done wysiwyg 👍
Well done..
I, for the vast majority, respect the police..
But, I too have been in a similar situation.
2 women used fake names and addresses stole over £1k worth of stuff off our small business (years ago). I had a mobile phone number and a dropped return receipt from 'furniture village' to go on.
Managed to find out:
A real name
a real address
I literally handed the case to the local police. They said "no crime had been committed".
FFS!
Good luck OP
DrP
ridiculous/scandalous that the police wouldnt investigate the initial crime and it took you doing some sherlock holmes work on their behalf to give them enough info to go on and eventually catch them.
I wonder how many other 'minor' crimes are also treated in the same way by the police.
I wonder how many other ‘minor’ crimes are also treated in the same way by the police
I'd hazard a guess on something approximating 100%, but given the decimation in police numbers and resources a few years ago, it's hardly a surprise. Was it 20,000 new police officers? (nearly enough to make up the previous losses) they're going to take some time to train and deploy, but even then probably still not sufficient for nicked bikes.
I am not the only person who now has to say no comment as i know a posse of thieves keep on eye on various fb groups looking for bikes. So maybe on here. Ongoing case etc.
looking for bikes... finding out people with an online alias have nice bikes somewhere within the UK... and then?
Unless there is a "Santa Cruz owners ride, finish 5pm at the Stag and hounds, sling your bike in the pub beer garden while we go inside" how are they looking for bikes on Facebook?
I wonder how many other ‘minor’ crimes are also treated in the same way by the police.
Not quite the same, but equally despairing:
A few years ago I got smashed off my bike riding up Green Lanes in London. It was pretty nasty, I was doing about 15mph along a straight road, a car swerved into me, I hit the kerb, smacked my head on a bin and cracked my helmet. Multiple witnesses.
After waiting for ages in the station to give a statement, it turned out that - because the Land Rover had fake plates - the police said 'there's nothing we can do'...
Unless there is a “Santa Cruz owners ride, finish 5pm at the Stag and hounds, sling your bike in the pub beer garden while we go inside” how are they looking for bikes on Facebook?
Find out who’s got a nice bike, where you’re riding and where the spots are and follow you home/to the pub. If I can find an address using the Internet I’m sure organised criminals can.
Unless there is a “Santa Cruz owners ride, finish 5pm at the Stag and hounds, sling your bike in the pub beer garden while we go inside” how are they looking for bikes on Facebook?
Its not hard to get a pretty good idea of wehre some nice bikes might be with the internet tools available to us:
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/mnpr-6th-sept/
Unless there is a “Santa Cruz owners ride, finish 5pm at the Stag and hounds, sling your bike in the pub beer garden while we go inside” how are they looking for bikes on Facebook?
I'm gonna be bold and suggest (at the risk of thieves learning a revolutionary new technique) that ten minutes on one of these groups will yield a haul of names, approximate locations and bikes (whoa you can even ask "looking for inspiration, show me your Hightowers" and get them all in one place) . Another ten minutes will give you at least a couple of well know activity tracker accounts that are open / insecure, and a further ten minutes will show you the exact location of those bikes. If the yield is low a search of other open sources of info on the internet will give you the actual addresses of 'the marks'.
Of course the OP in this thread, wysiwyg was the victim of an opportunist, but undoubtedly one who recognises there's a ton of posh bikes floating around the Hope Valley on a weekend.
the victim of an opportunist,
The actual theft was opportunistic, but he had planned where he was going and where there were likely to be bikes. This is his job it seems
I'm convinced that I was targeted because of posting pictures online. I've lived in my street for only 18 months. It's a quiet close with no passing traffic, no way to walk through or take a short cut, bikes have never been outside. I posted a couple of pictures of my rare and distinctive car on Instagram and soon after a car full of blockheads turned up and ripped my garage open. They came straight to my house and left with my bikes and didn't bother anyone else. There's absolutely no way they could have know what was in there unless they just got incredibly lucky.
No more posting pictures of bikes or cars online for me. I was done with instagram anyway, this was just the push I needed to bin it.
I live in Sheffield ride at Derwent every weekend - a year ago had a brand new Santa Cruz Bronson (mint coloured) delivered to my address, the courier placed the bike in my garage 80 metres from my flat. I'd been out on my wifes Canyon e MTB, came home took the Bronson out of the box, put the Hope pedals on, put a cable lock on the Bronson and locked the garage up around 5:30pm.
Next morning opened the garage and a big hole had been smashed in the back garage wall and the Bronson and Canyon ebike both gone ! Thieves left behind a sledgehammer and a crowbar and snipped my Spottracker off the Canyon.
The Bronson was on Stifs (Harrogate) Facebook page (November 14 ish 2020). Neither the Bronson or the Canyon ever seen again, although I'm hoping it may be connected to this arrest.