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Keep em peeled for the bike, I want to get the guy who is going to buy it and also the f&%kers who committed the crime!!! It is a bike with lots of modifications and unique stuff so hopefully it will be found - but it isn't about finding the bike so much as finding the perpetrators! Thanks to everyone for the support and by safe on your rides tomorrow.

You are absolutely right! One considers yourself well off when you come away with no injuries... sad state of affairs.

Hell Ye!

I must admit that your response did surprise me. I think this general apathy is what has allowed us to accept crime and just find ways to work around it. I want to take and stand and become part of the solution.

Don't know about Mapogo? But I agree - many people must see "the spoils" and it is only with the help of such communities that these guys can get caught - the absolute callousness of these attacks means that these guys are fantastic contributors to society - NOT!

Yes, I would imagine it would stay in the back of your mind whilst cycling. I, the fort-holder at home am also affected because every time my husband goes out I become concerned if he does not return near the time he estimated and I begin to pray that I will see him again. I am not a neurotic wife but I am aware of the dangers and cannot believe that this carries on unchecked!

Thanks - it is going to be hard for my dad - he is the kind of person that the minute he feels sick he gets on his bike and does a long ride to chase the bugs away!

how does one get this started?

Bike-jacked today near northern farms - see my earlier post. Details of bike: Specialised Epic Black with red trim, white fizik saddle, Hayes break system, Bontrager wheels and chain wheel, Shimano X9 derralea and maxis tyres. Polar 800s watch and heart rate sensor. Does anyone know if the bike shops have websites where you can register details of a stolen bike incase someone comes in to service it?

My dad - a serious cyclist for his entire life was bike jacked today at about 8am on the Lion Park road just near Northern Farms. The bastards stepped out and pushed him off his bike onto the tar road. One had a gun. They rolled him onto his stomach tied his hands behind his back, stole everything except his clothes and were going through his stuff when someone saw him and chased them off. He now sits in hospital icu with a broken collarbone, broken ribs, a punctured lung and a hairline fracture of his pelvis and ball joint (remember they forced him onto his stomach and tied his hands,,, - agony with these injuries)! How is this happening, how is this ok and what is being done about it?? I love SA but I am not enamoured with its' people at the moment to say the least. Who the F*(k is buying these bikes cause that is the only reason these bikes are being stolen in this manner. I think getting a serial number log with owner details is a way to go and before you are allowed to enter races, ownership has to be varified. Also when you buy a second-hand bike registration has to happen on the site. I will post separately, but his bike was a SPECIALISED EPIC, Black with red trim, white fizik saddle, Hayes break system, Shimano x9 derailer and maxis tyres. A polar 800s watch and heart rate monitor.