Thieves cut Reynolds 531 mountain bike frame with hacksaw outside Busarus.

Run_to_da_hills

Took this passing Busarus this morning, this must be the lowest form of bicycle theft. :mad:

seamus

Seems bizarre. The bike was worthless even before they cut half of the top tube off.

Maybe it was locked to a more desirable bike and this seemed like the easiest way of parting them?

neris

driving by busarus and seeing some of the yokes that hang around down there im not surprised some one would waste their time doing that

Moflojo

There's more to this than meets the eye.

What was inside the tube?!?

I suspect Fabian Cancellara and/or the State of Israel to be involved in some way.

Run_to_da_hills

seamus wrote: »

Seems bizarre. The bike was worthless even before they cut half of the top tube off.

Maybe it was locked to a more desirable bike and this seemed like the easiest way of parting them?

If they would do it toi this they would do it to any bike, nothings safe, they didnt even bother to strip it bar the rear wheel. I wouldn't leave any bike in the city unless its locked in view of fixed CCTV.

muckwarrior

Maybe it was abandoned and someone did it to remove it from whatever it was locked to. Don't really see why thieves would have bothered.

Gavin

Looks more like someone trying to have a laugh, trick on a mate maybe ? No reason a thief would cut a section off, they'd make one cut and lever it.

el tel

You could repair that with the shaft of a brush. The rear mech might need some attention though.

Moflojo

Is this the thieving equivalent of cutting the Gordian Knot?

CramCycle

Same area where they drove a sledge hammer through my frame when they couldn't bust the lock.

I put nothing past the scum around there and the IFSC

kakee

i bet they felt stupid when they realised the rear wheel was missing

seamus

I walked by this bike last week actually. I doubt it was thieves as the brake cable was also cut clean through. Looks like someone just took an angle grinder to it and sliced straight through it. The bike was probably locked and abandoned in a stupid place and someone from CIE came out and "moved" it.

copacetic

seamus wrote: »

I walked by this bike last week actually. I doubt it was thieves as the brake cable was also cut clean through. Looks like someone just took an angle grinder to it and sliced straight through it. The bike was probably locked and abandoned in a stupid place and someone from CIE came out and "moved" it.

seems the most likely, they probably added their own lock for a while and when no-one came in looking for it to be released they cut it off it's own lock, would have thought if they had power tools they could have just cut any lock off though..