Stolen Bianchi - with added Face of Bike Thief!

Captain Havoc

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cojomo2

Raam,

sorry about the bike...

what type of lock did your missus have on the bike?

Raam

cojomo2 wrote: »

Raam,

sorry about the bike...

what type of lock did your missus have on the bike?

I don't know the make or model. Nothing particularly extravagant though.
It was a cable style.

Jk_Eire

Attention has been grabbed...why not cause a scene with the momentum gathering.
Tweet this under #findmybike or something.

Get your facebook friends to post it to their wall.
Maybe even set up a facebook page.
If it takes off, some media outlets might take up on it since it's viral, and everyone love that kind of stuff.
Thejournal.ie like to pick up on trending social media stories.

All a bit far fetched, I know, but who knows.
Could be an experiment to see if social media can find a stolen bike.

Raam

It's spreading a bit on facebook at the moment. I shall tweet it now.

Raam

Tweeted, let's see if it spreads
http://twitter.com/PortoDoyler/status/4564433527382016

droidus

Retweeted.

Motley Crue

Did you speak to the guy standing next to him when he took it. I'm surprised he was so casually able to take it without alerting suspicion...but I guess that's why I'm not a thief

Raam

Motley Crue wrote: »

Did you speak to the guy standing next to him when he took it. I'm surprised he was so casually able to take it without alerting suspicion...but I guess that's why I'm not a thief

We shall aim to find out if he knows anything.

Jk_Eire

Raam wrote: »

Tweeted, let's see if it spreads
http://twitter.com/PortoDoyler/status/4564433527382016

Good stuff. About 15 mentions already with some trending hashtags so it gets a spread around. Here's hoping for internet justice.

TinyExplosions

Raam wrote: »

We shall aim to find out if he knows anything.

I can imagine it now...

Kerly

I've had two bicycles stolen from Harrington street around the corner, might even have been the same guy. Cops wont do anything to him, some form of ritual humiliation would be suitable punishment

BrianD

Stick it on Facebook, maybe somebody can tag the culprit.

I'm surprised that teh FBI haven't their most wanted on Facebook already!

Raam

Aye it's up on FB already, working it's way around as we speak.

Raam

Y'know what, if we can get the king of twitter, Lance, to retweet this, I think that's almost as good as getting the bike back :pac:

Junior

Raam wrote: »

Y'know what, if we can get the king of twitter, Lance, to retweet this, I think that's almost as good as getting the bike back :pac:

Want to see if I can get him to do it ? I'll give it ago like ?

Raam

Junior wrote: »

Want to see if I can get him to do it ? I'll give it ago like ?

Haha, why not?!

Jk_Eire

Phantom FM just picked it up on twitter http://twitter.com/phantom1052

For anybody looking to re-tweet - http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23findmybike

Junior

Raam wrote: »

Haha, why not?!

I'm getting a good amount of retweets anyways .. I can ask a few other people for the crack..

dayshah

Raam wrote: »

I don't know the make or model. Nothing particularly extravagant though.
It was a cable style.

Cable locks are useless, they can be cut through in about 2 seconds.

D-Locks are really the only serious lock, with cable a good option for securing the front wheel.

Captain Havoc

All we need now is a Christmas no.1 song.

Lusk Doyle

Just spoke to a Garda buddy of mine and he will contact his mates in his station and others to keep a look out for it too....

Dord

This morning on my commute to work I saw about 5 bikes chained to a railing in front of one of the flats on Kevin St. I didn't have time to stop but it might be worth checking around there. It was on the side facing Aungier St DIT along the laneway.

Lusk Doyle

Captain Havoc wrote: »

All we need now is a Christmas no.1 song.

Oh bicycle robber,
You came on a Friday,
Sold the bike on the Tuesday,
Got spoken to the Gards on the Wednesday,
Got your head ki**ed in on the Thursday,
But you stole another bike again the next Friday...

Jk_Eire

4000+ views on the thread. Nearly 100 twitter mentions.
Why not have a stab at mailing the popular radio stations.
Has the potential to be something popular they'd like to jump onto and give a quick mention or one might even take up the cause. Has pics a Dublin thief, it's local, it's "social media" related.

"Can social media find my bike" etc...

Worth a stab...

theinbox@98fm.com
news@phantom.ie
trishl@fm104.ie

Give the metro a mail too. Pitch them the story and send the pics.
news@metroherald.ie

Lusk Doyle

Jk_Eire wrote: »

4000+ views on the thread. Nearly 100 twitter mentions.
Why not have a stab at mailing the popular radio stations.
Has the potential to be something popular they'd like to jump onto and give a quick mention or one might even take up the cause. Has pics a Dublin thief, it's local, it's "social media" related.

"Can social media find my bike" etc...

Worth a stab...

theinbox@98fm.com
news@phantom.ie
trishl@fm104.ie

Give the metro a mail too. Pitch them the story and send the pics.
news@metroherald.ie

I've just emailed details over to a producer on Today FM that I know so here's hoping...

thebouldwhacker

Darcy might pick it up (being a cyclist etc) best to shove the point that it already has momentum rather than his show being plagued with other 'my bike has been nicked' emails.
I'll say one thing, I'd hate to be commuting on a Bianchi right now:D

Any chance of posting up a serial number or something that could identify it from other bikes? a scratch, the group set, tear on the saddle etc?

Raam

I don't want to post the serial number online.
Distinguishing features: pink tyres, a black ripped Selle San Marco saddle,
105 shifters with one of the caps missing.
Dent on the downtube

thebouldwhacker

Perfect, I added that to my sig...

murphy93

Good luck with recovering your bike. My cousin lost his winter hack 2 weeks ago near Malahide outside a cafe not locked so watch out. seems that some thieves are looking out for weekend groups .

Lusk Doyle

Raam wrote: »

I don't want to post the serial number online.
Distinguishing features: pink tyres, a black ripped Selle San Marco saddle,
105 shifters with one of the caps missing.
Dent on the downtube

Hmmmm.....sounds appealing indeed!

TinyExplosions

Raam wrote: »

I don't want to post the serial number online.
Distinguishing features: pink tyres, a black ripped Selle San Marco saddle,
105 shifters with one of the caps missing.
Dent on the downtube

Missing cap, dented downtube.... does she not look after the bike!!! :eek:

copacetic

sig added. brazen fecker.

Bunnyhopper

Sorry to hear about the bike getting taken - hope you get it back. Sig and tweet done here.

I notice SSbike has retweeted one of the mentions.

greenrocket

this is some support, hope this fecker is found (and the bike of course)

bullvine

A lad in work had his nicked from the Office Carpark couple of weeks ago, it was a nice bike as well, they picked the fella up on the CCTV and hes been caught, he admitted to 26 other bike thefts.

Doesnt look like much chance of him getting his bike back though.

campuslife

Sorry to hear 'bout the bike. Hope you get the chap. This link may have been posted before, but for other people who ahve had their bikes stolen, here's the link to the Flickr page where the Garda list the bikes and stuff they've recovered.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gardasiochana/

happytramp

Posted him as my facebook status, provided link to the thread and requested all my friends do the same!! I feel net justice in the air....oh yeah!

Stokolan

Jaysus.. This thread is after flying up since I last posted. Glad the sig pic came in handy.

I hpe the bike is found.

Jawgap

Rotten luck and I sincerely hope the bike is recovered and the srcoat is caught. Any chance the bike was targetted? It seems a bit mad that he would walk brazenly into what looks like a relatively private spot and spend 20 mins (?) breaking the lock to take the bike, as well as having the presence of mind to bring a hi-vis vest with him.

On a lighter note, maybe it's time for the Guards to take this sort of thing more seriously - they should form a "helmet squad" modelled on LAPD's "hat squad" who tended towards the robust when dealing with crime......

Less


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I figured Hinault would have to lead it:)

Raam

This morning I have learned that this chap may be doing rounds of office car parks in the city, pulling the same stunt. Please advise your respective security departments/cyclist colleagues about this chap.

My source informs me that the very same guy (source has a picture which is not available to me) took bicycles from their place of work.

The guy may be trying to pass himself off as someone who works in the building, hence the high vis vest.

Lumen

I do rather like his hat.

Jawgap

Lumen wrote: »

I do rather like his hat.

It is quite distinctive and probably worth looking out for - easier to spot someone wearing that (and the jacket) than trying to compare his face to the CCTV image. Unless they're his bike thieving clothes and he wears something else in the cold weather.

fletch

scumbag...i'll watch out for him around D2

Beasty

Jawgap wrote: »

It is quite distinctive and probably worth looking out for - easier to spot someone wearing that (and the jacket) than trying to compare his face to the CCTV image. Unless they're his bike thieving clothes and he wears something else in the cold weather.

Could it be the Wiggle guy at the bottom? - perhaps they are looking to start a 2nd hand business:D:

wayne0308

It's great you got a picture of him. It's unfortunate that the resolution and quality is a bit low. When you zoom in on the face, there is just enough there to recognize the man though.

I cropped the man out of your original pic and tried unsuccessfully to sharpen it. Photoshop might have a better upscaler with a better interpolation method than I have with gimp. So hopefully someone can work their CSI magic.

It's not often enough that buggers like him get caught but I'd say theres a really good chance here. Hope he gets bloody knicked!!

mloc123

wayne0308 wrote: »

It's great you got a picture of him. It's unfortunate that the resolution and quality is a bit low. When you zoom in on the face, there is just enough there to recognize the man though.

I cropped the man out of your original pic and tried unsuccessfully to sharpen it. Photoshop might have a better upscaler with a better interpolation method than I have with gimp. So hopefully someone can work their CSI magic.

It's not often enough that buggers like him get caught but I'd say theres a really good chance here. Hope he gets bloody knicked!!

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zoom, enhance, zoom, enhance...

we have our thief

Captain Havoc

I just noticed, el tonto has "ride it like you stole it" as his sig

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