Stolen: Specialized S-Worx Epic WC 2012 (Pretoria)

[Las777]

Stolen: Specialized S-Worx Epic WC 2012
When: 12 January 2018
Where: Pretoria, Gauteng

I parked in the basement parking of Menlyn mall on the bottom floor near the entrance to Food Lovers. My bike was secured with 2 x locks inside the back of my bakkie. Only visible thing was the 1 side of my upright handlebar.

I was inside for max 20mins. As i drove out of Menlyn I noticed that I couldn't see my bike's handlebar, I pulled off and checked and saw that my bike was missing. I immediately contacted Menlyn security where we went through video footage of the parking.

We found the incident on video. On the video footage you can clearly see 2 men in a white vw bus stealing a spare wheel of another bakkie as I drove in, when they where done with that bakkie they immediately drove and parked right next to my bakkie to steal my spare wheel as well, they took the bike as they had all the tools needed to cut the chains from the spare wheels. They sped out afterwards.

Get further details about the incident in the Stolen Bikes section

[Ispeed_V]

Holy crap.

 

Will our bikes ever be safe.

 

Hope you get the bike back and the assholes get what they deserve

[Long Wheel Base]

Jeez man that is not cool. At least you got video footage for insurance. 

[vmxross]

I had a very similar bad experience a while back.

Unchained in the car though [yah, my bad!!]

An early-am job within our complex.

 

In retrospect I now chain the bike/s inside the car and garage [paranoid-like] thinking this would more than deter these foul bloody criminals.

Obviously nothing is sacred, no matter how cautious one is.

 

What would actually help is micro-chipping the bikes as is done in the UK & US. Not a real biggie here for whatever reason.

 

I really hope the footage can be used to a greater extent, and for recovery means.

Strongs, sorry for your loss.

[Tabula Rasa]

Pics of the bike would help. you never know when or where it could resurface again. I

 

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