Stolen Bikes Thread - Mod Note please read post #1 before posting

Hey guys, unfortunately second time I've had to post on this thread, previous time a road bike of mine was stolen in Ashtown, this time its my mountain bike. It is a Trek 4300 and its a good few years old but still looked pretty well. Stolen outside in Blancherstown SC by Mr Price. I'd it locked and was gone for 10 minutes but they'd the lock cut when I got back.

Has a bit of sentimental value to me cause I bought it as a present for myself when I started working. If anyone in the area notices something like it please give me a shout.

Thanks

SM

The bike attached was left on our street today and has been brought to Irishtown garda station if the owner is looking for it

Jesus that is desperate.

Wonder if they knew what the wheel was or if they would have robbed a bog standard.

Either way.....cat

Ah yeah, just opportunism. The IKEA car park gets targeted anyway. Vans broken into for tools and such.

I've got spare wheels, but typically it's the bike I was a bit choosy with for everything to match

Fair play to them because I know another prominent local bike store wasnt able to give me the serial number for a bike I had bought from them three weeks previously.

what scumbag would do that. steal a bike that is clearly used to transport kids

I had three bikes stolen over christmas - What sites should I check to see if they appear for sale?

I have been checking adverts / Donedeal and facebook.

It is a Giant Toughroad SLR2 and two Kids Orbea Dirt MX24's.

That's a lucky escape alright. Did you get any CCTV? Be interesting to see how long it took to get that far. That lock is about €90, right?

Had a bike stolen outside Cineworld. It was locked to the bike rack.

Called Cineworld ask if they had CCTV pointed in that direction.

The person I spoke to was absolutely useless.....completely non sympathetic.

No CCTV and was no help at all.

It seemed to me that the number was picked by someone outside Ireland....a callcentre in Eastern Europe......don't think she even knew where the cinema was.

I even asked if bikes had ever been stolen from there before......she said she never came across it.

FFS....it's Dublin and bikes are robbed all the time.

After hanging up.....I was furious.

I reported it to AGS but nothing ever came from it.

The bike was about 12 years old a piece if crap anyway. ...probably not worth €50.

I've got a chain version of that Abus, and recently saw a pic of what thieves did to one in London. And that was after getting into the metal bike store.

I often carry a second U lock myself, but I know it'll only buy some extra time.

I'd never lock a bike around Cineworld myself. It's just a black hole for bikes as there's thieves everywhere around there.

What really grates is that it is likely the same set of no-good-niks who rob all the bikes in that area. It's just a pastime to these lads and nothing can or will be done to curtail them, even though you'd be sure that the guards know the exact individuals involved.

it's probably worth ringing your house insurance providor as it might have been covered under that.

Anyone have a mountain bike frame stolen from them last weekend, in the vicinity of the National Aquatic Centre?

The article that shows up under the one you linked.

No, it worked! I just mean it's ironic that the next article that showed up underneath the ice cream one is about cycling destroying communities.