Four Bikes Stolen From Danny Hart and Matt Walker at Hotel in Sheffield

 comment of the day!

 it looks like it's the world championships of bike thefts

 Amaury is at it again.

 That whip

 @pipomax: “With balls that big...”

 That bike is already stripped for parts and the frame repainted.... it's a shame too because that's a beautiful paint job.

 They'll take the parts off and sell them then chuck the frames. Good money and hard to trace.

 @Mattysville: Why not just steal the whole vehicle, it has to be worth a lot more? Are they really making out stripping parts off a bicycle and reselling them?

 @apneaaddict: Vehicles are hard to steal these days - you pretty much have to put it on a flatbed.

 @g-42: Even then they pretty much have a GPS for each possible part on it.

 Please tell me you didn't leave 3 bikes worth more than the van in the van. My $3000 street bike sleeps next to my bed in any hotel.

 @WAKIdesigns: some sanding and black spray can paint job and you are good to go. Might as well delete/restamp the serial number while you do that.

 @g-42: That's the current generation of Ford Transit which is the most stolen van in England.

 Funny.... don't think they recovered Gwin's bike or any of the other bikes stolen recently. These teams need to learn.... don't be lazy. Bring the bikes INSIDE. No different than bands leaving all their shit in vans overnight at hotels.

 @WAKIdesigns:

Can repaint that frame a nice single color for under $600... and that's in California. If they have an organized ring they can probably spray it much cheaper... Or just scrap the frame and sell off the parts.

It's like a car... frames just end up in a ditch somewhere.

But I really wouldn't put a respray past someone. Selling that thing unsprayed would be stupid as hell.

 @onemanarmy: that and maybe the UK police could stop arresting people for saying mean things on Twitter and start finding bike thieves (and hopefully they would be held accountable... gotta do something to make the thievery not worth it...) Most UK cities are wired up to 1984 levels with CCTV, seems to me they could do more to find thieves.

 @onemanarmy: dude thw tools alone to cut through a door that cleanly without causing a ruckus is upwards of 500$ at least they probaly already had where it was going after lined up, be ready for shirtless Putin put in in laps while the commander in cheffers putters about putting in on the mini course.

 @lateandsweaty: oh god dammit. Why are you here? Go back to your hobbit hole you goof

 @WAKIdesigns: no thanks I will like rice putting with an old rasPUTIN stout and to top it all off I would like to ask why are there 13 full moons and 12 new moons to the solar calendar? This does not make sense to me and how does that accurately track and record seasons and years? And Putin can keep his24 and sukkey 36 and I'll be happy with my lyriks rhythm.

 @WAKIdesigns: Maybe you should take up creative writing or novels? 'The chronicles of waki', 'the world according to waki', 'A day in the life/ step inside wakis mind'?

 @zyoungson: this just in waki is a bot

 @lateandsweaty: hi dude, no molly tonight?

 @WAKIdesigns: you are completly right sire!

 @onemanarmy: Exactly what some dum f#@€ck did without my bike: and now I have it back, luckaly!

 I feel like they're posting their whereabouts and itineraries on social media then leaving bikes unattended. They're being targeted for sure. Fine line between constant content creation and privacy these days for elite athletes especially in the off season.

 Same shit that happened to gwins bikes. Left them in a van ..it's stupid. Too many things that could be done to stop it but aren't.

 What would be cool is a bike beacon that sends the GPS location. Replace a small battery every six months or so with the beacon in the seat tube. I found this online. Could fit inside the steer tube with a plug at the bottom.

It just sucks to have bikes stolen and there is little that can be done to track it.


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 @vjunior21: www.sherlock.bike/en

And like I said lock it in place with lockon grips then replace the bolts with tamper proof bolts that require a special tool.

 @reverend27:
Yup that looks good too. What ever helps to track a bike and is not so obvious that it is disabled as soon as it is stolen.

 @vjunior21: I think thieves may be clever enough now or in the near future to discover those beacons.

 @Buddler:
Human sized mouse traps?

 I mean, they're not exactly discreet with their bright colors and fancy vans, and whatnot. If I was a gangster from the 'hood, these guys who are flaunting all their fancy shit are the exact ones I'd target.

 I don't think the pros actually give a shit as they have not paid for a single bike part in years. It is us the consumer that pays for their bikes. Still bike thieves suck donkey balls and hopefully karma comes their way.

 @onemind123: I’m sure he cares about his one of a kind worlds bike. Just because they get them for “free” doesn’t mean they don’t care greatly about them. Not only that but a lot of riders consider their bikes part of their salary. They earn their bikes, it’s not like they sit at home watching tv all day and are rewarded with new bikes.

 @nateisgrate: Of these sponsored riders cared about their +10k bikes the way I care about my 10k bike there is no way they would leave one of them (never mind four) inside an unwatched vehicle overnight.

 @onemind123: it’s a pretty sad day when you need a brinks truck to carry bikes in. Most people don’t expect their vehicle to be broken into, that’s a pretty extreme case of bike theft albeit it seems to be happening more and more often. However, if he wasn’t a sponsored rider and people weren’t aware of the bikes he owns maybe he wouldn’t have been targeted.

 or just a really mean dog

 There are GPS devices that would already fit, they just don’t bother adding them. Hell, use a Tile (or equivalent) and you’d have a chance.

 thief has a better chance of finding the tile an throwing it away

 @nicktee89: Yeah that's limited to the range of bluetooth though. I would think if you're that close to your bikes, you would hear someone taking them anyways. I haven't found a small, reliable gps device that could be hidden somewhere on the bike...

 @jawzzy3: I had one for my car keys, bloody thing was a hassle. Constantly disconnecting with no warning an ate batteries again, no warning when the battery had run out.
They can find stuff anywhere by using any ones phone who has the app but, this depends on every one having the app. I reckon google could come up with a viable system if they wanted

 @nicktee89: as it is easy to find the bike with GPS locator, it is also very easy to find out the bike has one

 @bok-CZ: Good point... What about on with a motion-activated alarm?

 @nojzilla: Sherlock. Look it up.

Put it in your handlebars it has proximity alarm and GPS tracking.

To make it harder on the thief to remove it use lockon grips and replace the bolt with a tamper proof bolt that needs a special tool to remove it.

 @jawzzy3: that could possibly work if the gps would start running after some motion detected in frame, but not being active when not, so you would need another sensor to detect the motion and then activate GPS, otherwise they can easy find its equipped with a tracking tool.

My mom is using Trackito on her eMTB. This works based on GPS so it will run alarm on your phone when the GPS detects movement, but the in this case the GPS is still running when it is on, so I believe it is easy to find out on the bike. However it is installed in steered tube so taking it out can take some time.

Having the bikes in car overnight...well that is not so good idea, everybody knows. But when stolen from hotel, I would suppose they have bike storage or a space for that which should be under insurance.

Here in Czech if a hotel/restaurant etc have space for bikes/skis/whatever (not only bike storage, let´s say even a coat hanger in restaurant) and something happens, it is their responsibility then as they "pushed" you to use it.

 @reverend27: and you can buy GPS jammer for around 60 bucks

 @bok-CZ: Hotels here with bike valets have liability release disclaimers iirc. So if bike gets stolen, they'll at least attempt to dodge responsibility. Don't know how well it would hold in court though. I'll check out Trackito, cheers!

 @bok-CZ: and you get an alarm to your phone the minute it is touched.

The alarm would have been sent far before they could gotten all the bikes out.

 @reverend27: Sherlock needs to open up shop in the great white north!

 @nojzilla: Tile is about to release littetiny thin tiles or so they say in an email they sent me (I got some Tiles for xmas - saved my ass a few times).

 @reverend27: thief just ditches the handle bars

 @nojzilla: how is he removing the handlebars without setting off the motion detector?

 An this the problem with bikes, as opposed cars motor bikes even mobilitE bikes. Professional Thieves are good at what they do, they know all the security systems an the ways around them. An with bikes it's simply a case of finding the tracker device an getting rid of it. Hell, thieves will even cut through a frame that's weaker than the strongest lock to strip the bike for thousands worth of €£$ parts.

 @reverend27: with the jammer which you have in pocket the signal is screwed before they even get two meters or more around, just saying...

 Sorry, its 10 meters with the 60 bucks one

 @nojzilla: exactly, look at that, they haven't used a grinder because of too much noise, shears... That means they were ready pretty well

 Same here. Can never be too carefull.

 Just brought my bike into the Airbnb. And I purposely took it off the rack, and put it inside my car when I rolled into town. No need to go flaunting my fancy bike to the locals, which is exactly what these pros are doing.

 Looks like it.
Sheet metal cutter? Damn thats next Level.

 Actually, the part that I don’t get is why on the first picture of the van, the damage to the door is much bigger than on the 2nd and 3rd picture. Why would they damage it even more?

 @cvoc: it‘s not the same car.

 Sentry Mode on Teslas is brilliant, and has been catching loads of vandals - check out the YT videos. I'd like to see it standard on all vehicles.

 Not in the uk it’s not. Pretty run of the mill.

 That rule is three decades old for me.

 Or send them to a distant island

 Maybe they should snip the thiefs index fingers & make them ride down a world cup track?