Stolen bike update

[eddy]

It being Friday, I suspect now would be a good time to STFU if I were you.... you are about to be schooled on the constitution and hate speech shortly.....

 

 

 

He had his tongue firmly in his cheek.....

[Jewbacca]

It being Friday, I suspect now would be a good time to STFU if I were you.... you are about to be schooled on the constitution and hate speech shortly.....

 

I would certainly listen to the constitutional lesson from Eddy.... he learned at the knee of a master.... quite literally....

ERM..... I am not the one who brought up the constitution NOR am I the one who is in any way saying anything other than 'Poor showing from Bridge Cycle' as in my previous post....

 

My comment was purely a jest bringing forward other topics discussed previously about how soft, self centered and how apathetic so much of the world has become...

 

Maybe I should have written it in comic sans BUT..... take a chill pill, say sorry to me and all will be forgiven... otherwise your aggression and meanness will force me BACK into my safe space and I don't have my fidget spinner, so all sorts of things could go wrong with my emotions!

 

On a more serious level, I do feel that your unwarranted aggression towards me is, well, unwarranted

 

PS. V12MAN.. I am having a good chuckle. You should too

[Pah Bear]

Sorry for the OP on the loss of his steed. Considering the cost I also assume he was insured.

 

The legal lessons are always great outcomes from these verbal skirmishes. More lessons learnt.

 

I think the greatest lesson I learnt is what was previously said (on another thread where there was the proverbial snot klap.) There is a "He said, She said AND the truth". Not sure why the truth is never contained in He said or She said version.

[Bonus]

Edited :

 

If it were not for the fact that this particular business is upstanding, trustworthy and vouched for on here, the thread almost reads as if the shop were in some way complicit.

 

"Bearing in mind that it was a suspicious member of the public who raised suspicion, not anyone at the shop - there's always a chance that the shop is involved in fencing stolen goods and that the last thing they were going to do when asked to "hold onto the bike", was hold onto the bike."

 

It's good to know that in this case the LBS is a good one. I hope the OP gets his bike back. I've been there and it's a sickening feeling :-(

[Pah Bear]

Bearing in mind that it was a suspicious member of the public who raised suspicion, not anyone at the shop - there's always a chance that the shop is involved in fencing stolen goods and that the last thing they were going to do when asked to "hold onto the bike", was hold onto the bike.

Without having any evidence to the contrary, you deduced a response that deserves to be on the crap heap it belongs. That is my LBS and I know the kind of people who work there.

 

See that comment comes from Ainsa in Spain. Think it should stay there. 

[Gert Janse v Rensburg]

Bearing in mind that it was a suspicious member of the public who raised suspicion, not anyone at the shop - there's always a chance that the shop is involved in fencing stolen goods and that the last thing they were going to do when asked to "hold onto the bike", was hold onto the bike.

 

Yup!!!!

It must be Friday!

[Tubehunter]

Without having any evidence to the contrary, you deduced a response that deserves to be on the crap heap it belongs. That is my LBS and I know the kind of people who work there.

 

See that comment comes from Anus in Spain. Think it should stay there. 

 

Bonus is quite a chilled dude, so we don't have to keep revving this thread up a bunch of notches and make it personal, even if it is Friday. 

 

This could've probably worked better though:

"Hey Bonus, that's an interesting theory, but I know the chaps who run this place and even though there is only enough info out that could suggest that is an option, the reality is that these are stand up chaps. Please could you edit your post before one of the keyboard warriors gets inspired from your post to go on a slander campaign?" 

[Bonus]

Bonus is quite a chilled dude, so we don't have to keep revving this thread up a bunch of notches and make it personal, even if it is Friday. 

 

This could've probably worked better though:

"Hey Bonus, that's an interesting theory, but I know the chaps who run this place and even though there is only enough info out that could suggest that is an option, the reality is that these are stand up chaps. Please could you edit your post before one of the keyboard warriors gets inspired from your post to go on a slander campaign?"

 

Cheers TH.

 

Bike theft winds me up and I jumped the gun a bit. No offense meant to what is clearly a decent LBS.

[nonky]

Eddy...

 

I feel you have an aggressive undertone bordering on hate speech. I am offended by this. I think I need 45 minutes in my safe place to contemplate how I would like to move forward with my emotions.

 

Your education, experience and understanding has no place on bikehub on a Friday... pffffft

 

[trigger warning required]

[Pah Bear]

Here we go again.

 

Hey Bonus, that's an interesting theory, but I know the chaps who run this place and even though there is only enough info out that could suggest that is an option, the reality is that these are stand up chaps.

 

Thanx for editing your post before this keyboard warrior gets all his curlies all in a knot..

[Jewbacca]

[trigger warning required]

HAHAHAHA

 

Everyone is wound so tightly at the moment and so quick to make things personal.... 

 

Guys, the issue here is stolen bikes, how much they suck and what (if anything) we as a community (bike shops, bike shop people, customers, hubbers, riders etc) can do to minimise the effect.

 

I think that as a standard, the shop should have made more of an effort as they clearly had a chance, just a slim chance, to help a member of the cycling community.

 

The End

[nonky]

HAHAHAHA

 

Everyone is wound so tightly at the moment and so quick to make things personal.... 

 

Guys, the issue here is stolen bikes, how much they suck and what (if anything) we as a community (bike shops, bike shop people, customers, hubbers, riders etc) can do to minimise the effect.

 

I think that as a standard, the shop should have made more of an effort as they clearly had a chance, just a slim chance, to help a member of the cycling community.

 

The End

 

HAHAHAHA

 

Everyone is wound so tightly at the moment and so quick to make things personal.... 

 

Guys, the issue here is stolen bikes, how much they suck and what (if anything) we as a community (bike shops, bike shop people, customers, hubbers, riders etc) can do to minimise the effect.

 

I think that as a standard, the shop should have made more of an effort as they clearly had a chance, just a slim chance, to help a member of the cycling community.

 

The End

 

Yip.  That's exactly the point.

 

I had my brand new Niner, my wife's Yeti and my daughter's mini-Specialized (also new) stolen in one fell swoop, so i stay away from these discussions.

 

Have a lekker weekend - let's ride, not b!tch at each other.

[V12man]

ERM..... I am not the one who brought up the constitution NOR am I the one who is in any way saying anything other than 'Poor showing from Bridge Cycle' as in my previous post....

 

My comment was purely a jest bringing forward other topics discussed previously about how soft, self centered and how apathetic so much of the world has become...

 

Maybe I should have written it in comic sans BUT..... take a chill pill, say sorry to me and all will be forgiven... otherwise your aggression and meanness will force me BACK into my safe space and I don't have my fidget spinner, so all sorts of things could go wrong with my emotions!

 

On a more serious level, I do feel that your unwarranted aggression towards me is, well, unwarranted

 

PS. V12MAN.. I am having a good chuckle. You should too

Can you write this in Afrikaans so I can understand you properly...

[V12man]

He had his tongue firmly in his cheek.....

You should know by now I always have my tongue welded to my cheek.... figuratively not literally....

[Bloukrans]

My Cannondale Scalpel was stole in January this year after our garage doors were crowbarred open.

 

This evening I saw a picture of my bike posted on a cycling whatsap group.

 

Someone had seen it at Bridge Cycles Diep River and said the people who brought it in looked dodgy.

 

I am 100% sure it was my bike because I can recognise unique things such as the green crank protectors, white shock and white hubs etc.

 

I immediately drove to Bridge cycles while a friend phoned them to tell them to hold onto the bike. I got the pic at 16:48 and got to Bridge at 17h20 to be told that the bike had gone.

 

I will report all of this to the SAPS investigating officer in the morning.

 

I am very irritated that the owner of Bridge didnt do more. The bike is obviously stolen. How many times are you going have a "dodgy" guy come in with a R75k bike that doesnt fit him. The owner and the mechanic immediately admitted that they thought the bike was stolen. They thought the guys came from Brawns Farm Philipi.

They didnt contact SAPS or try to notify any cycling forum. They didnt question the guys that brought in the bikes, no photos, CCTV conveniently not working, no registration number from the taxi that brought them. Nothing!

 

As a bike shop representing the cycling community where there have been a lot of bike jackings and theft from homes I believe that all shops have a responsibility to play a role to prevent the theft of the bikes and when a potentially stolen bike comes into their shops they need to do something about it.

 

Not good enough!

 

https://www.bikehub.co.za/stolenbikes/648-cannondale-scalpel-2016/

If this is true, why did they not do anything about it?

 

The issue is that our bikes get stolen! Finish en klaar. Not about defending a bike shop who should have done something.

 

And a bike shop owner who thinks a bike which is offered to him is stolen is not doing anything!

 

Ag K@K man, dis baie swak!!

 

Op, Sorry for the loss.

[Sparky and the Warden]

The part I don't get is how the bike shop have no records of the sale? Or who they bought it from? For crying in a bucket even cash crusaders have a policy whereby they copy your ID when buying anything from a member of the public!!!

 

This whole situation puts this bike shop in a seriously shady light. Guy rolls in with a 75k bike bikeshop buys bike off shady oke for 10k then proceeds to retail bike for 40k making a 30k profit .... this is only an example but you can see how it looks to the cycling community more must be done by the members of this community as well as the bike shops to reduce the amount of "black market" bikes....

 

Rant over.

 

Hope you come right!

 

 

 

 

My Cannondale Scalpel was stole in January this year after our garage doors were crowbarred open.

 

This evening I saw a picture of my bike posted on a cycling whatsap group.

 

Someone had seen it at Bridge Cycles Diep River and said the people who brought it in looked dodgy.

 

I am 100% sure it was my bike because I can recognise unique things such as the green crank protectors, white shock and white hubs etc.

 

I immediately drove to Bridge cycles while a friend phoned them to tell them to hold onto the bike. I got the pic at 16:48 and got to Bridge at 17h20 to be told that the bike had gone.

 

I will report all of this to the SAPS investigating officer in the morning.

 

I am very irritated that the owner of Bridge didnt do more. The bike is obviously stolen. How many times are you going have a "dodgy" guy come in with a R75k bike that doesnt fit him. The owner and the mechanic immediately admitted that they thought the bike was stolen. They thought the guys came from Brawns Farm Philipi.

They didnt contact SAPS or try to notify any cycling forum. They didnt question the guys that brought in the bikes, no photos, CCTV conveniently not working, no registration number from the taxi that brought them. Nothing!

 

As a bike shop representing the cycling community where there have been a lot of bike jackings and theft from homes I believe that all shops have a responsibility to play a role to prevent the theft of the bikes and when a potentially stolen bike comes into their shops they need to do something about it.

 

Not good enough!

 

https://www.bikehub.co.za/stolenbikes/648-cannondale-scalpel-2016/